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Cognitively impaired admitting to crimes they say they didnât commit
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No one told Dorothy Armstrong in her first ever police interview she was allowed a support person; someone to help understand the jargon, comfort her, encourage her description of who attacked her and how.
Neither was she given this information in any of the near-dozen police interviews that followed in later years as both victim and suspect: situations in which her complex personal history had given rise to such fear of the uniform she would agree â and confess â to any suggestion put to her if it meant she could just leave the room.