I said before that FS is the product of her upbringing. I don’t think she is slow going by her responses. She is definitely not what I would class as ‘slow’. Also, in my opinion, not knowing what a pronoun is, is not a sign of lack of intelligence but rather lack of education and nurture. I bet if you stopped 100 random people on the street and asked them what a pronoun was, an awful lot won’t know either. Yes she was neglectful, yes she was cruel at times, yes she was ignorant but I don’t think she is a murderer. The bottom line for me is that Star was not seriously harmed in her care. As soon as Brockhill came to Frankie’s flat on that fateful day, Star was dead within the hour.
as for this KG barrister questioning her, I actually think FS is doing pretty well. To me she sounds truthful apart from a couple of instances such as the finger biting where you couldn’t say she is telling the truth because why would Holly lie? So for me, it could be a lie, it could be that Holly thought of a different incident and attributed it to what happened in the car, etc. we just don’t know.