Crimewriter and lawyer Neil White answers your legal procedure queries
Q In my completed manuscript, the main character, Jess, is abused by her live-in boyfriend Brett. He attacks Jess in her flat and then later in an alleyway near her home. He is a serving police officer and, of course, at the end of the book he is arrested. The story is set in my home town of Burnley and I have written that he is tried for the abuse of Jess at Burnley Crown Court. He is found guilty and given a prison sentence.