MR LAX
The fact is that they knew already that he'd given you the instructions, you said as much in your confessions.  And it is plain from the first trial that that was so.  It may well be that they were looking for him because he'd left by the time you'd got back to Butterworth, you couldn't find him so he probably went into hiding as well.  Do you see what I'm saying?  The fact of the matter is the game was over before you were even arrested.