Marcus looked from Kazi, to Alessia and then to Abby. He could tell by the looks on their faces that they thought he was in the wrong and that the old man was right. Well Marcus, was not going to apologise for his outburst. He didn't care if Valon, had nothing to do with Jake's behaviour of late he was still at fault for picking on the kid.

"Well maybe you should try a different route where Mr Upstead is concerned Professor." Lawson said as he slowly made his way to one of the empty chairs. "When one tactic doesn't work then of course we should try and use another one" he sighed deeply as he glanced at Alessia and then turned and looked back at Kazi. "Something is wrong with him and I just want to know what it is."