What Happened Then?

Young Raymond Rudfordsculptor is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle who had adopted and raised him after Raymond's parent's died when he was a young boy. The prosecution allows his motive was fear of being disinherited if he married his fiancé the fair Alicia Atherton against his uncle's wishes and the prosecution lays a mountain of evidence against Raymond including his razor dragged from an artificial lake on the estate as the murder weapon; Raymond's bloody fingerprints and footprints found at the scene of bedroom crime and his bloody shoes found in his cupboard and bloody monogrammed-handkerchief found under his uncle's death bed. Raymond's only defense is that he could not have committed the crime as he goes into a paroxysm of dread at the mere sight of blood a phobia he has had ever since childhood when his dog was run over by a lorry and the dog's blood was splattered into his face.