The Girl He Sold Returned As The King’s Mate Chapter 17
The day the verdict was announced, the first autumn rain began to fall over the capital.
Adrian was permanently stripped of his Royal Academy credentials and barred for life from holding public office.
For the abduction of a minor, human trafficking, witness intimidation, and falsifying his background, he was sentenced to eighteen years in prison and ordered to pay victim compensation.
When he heard his qualification for office was permanently revoked, he reacted more strongly than he had to the eighteen-year prison sentence.
“My essays weren’t fraudulent!”
“My exam scores were real! On what grounds are you canceling my credentials?”
The judge answered coolly, “When the Crown selects public officials, it first assesses their character, and only then does it evaluate their ability.”
“You paid your tuition with money from the sale of a child and entered the selection process with a fraudulent background. A qualification obtained by those means is void.”
Before Adrian was taken away, he asked to see me.
I refused.
Thirteen years ago, when he’d loaded my unconscious body onto that green truck, he hadn’t waited for me to wake up and say goodbye.
Whatever he had to say now was irrelevant.
Isla was sentenced to three years in prison for bribing a witness, obstructing an investigation, and destroying evidence related to a cold case.
All inherited assets she had obtained through the false registration were seized and used to compensate the victims of the original crime.