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Justice Lawrence Wargrave

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Charles Dance

Once possessed of a brilliant legal mind, Justice Wargrave became notorious as a merciless ‘hanging judge’ – but is now a diminished figure: profoundly frail and battling against a crumbling memory.

However, there is one sentence he has never forgotten…

Charles Dance on Justice Wargrave...

"He is multi-faceted and you never know quite what he’s up to. There’s a mystery to all of the characters when they arrive, but even more so in the case of Wargrave. You never know whether what he’s saying is true or not, all the way through the story.

"On the bench he had acquired a reputation for levelling the most severe of penalties to people that appeared before him. He was not a merciful judge."

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