False Imprisonment

Tony knew Rita had been in court for soliciting a few times and she had a young daughter of three, who he was very fond of, so if she went to Jail her daughter would be taken into care by Social Services and he knew Rita would do anything to avoid that. Tony began to remember now that when the police had arrived on the scene of the fight, she had pushed her bag into his hand and snatched his bag.

They had got a sort of loose arrangement, that one day they would perhaps marry. She had for a long time had a key to his apartment and Tony guessed that was where she would be hiding now. After a few moments and a cup of nearly cold tea his memory of the night before started to become clearer. He remembered, how that they had both been arrested and the police had taken them to casualty to have their slight injuries dressed after they had been attacked by a bunch of young thugs and a fight had developed. At the hospital, Rita had pleaded with him to keep the change of identities with her as she could not afford to go to prison and have her young daughter placed into care.

The hospital had been busy and the change of identity was no problem as they had their injuries treated. Rita had used his femme name of Jane and had produced his credit card with his feminine name on as proof of her identity. It was one of those cards with a photo on which was not terribly clear. As Tony's name was not known to the police she had been released with a warning and Tony now impersonating her, was being charged and prosecuted as a common prostitute.

It seemed terribly unjust when the fight had been deliberately started by trouble makers, none of them had been arrested and Rita or Tony having being charged as a prostitute, when she was not soliciting, or had even been the subject of a complaint by a member of the public.

Tony vaguely remembers later being charged as Rita Stubbs and being brought to this cell. He presumed that very soon his real identity would be discovered and they would have to release him, but he was almost sure the police could not charge Rita after making such a big mistake over his identity when he was arrested. So in fact she would be in the clear. Tony was a little surprised that his true sex had not been discovered last night, either by the hospital, or here at the police station.