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When she attends she MUST take some form of legal representation. This sort of tactic is often used by the police themselves, of you making statements voluntarily without being arrested. It means they can easily circumvent all the usual rights you have - you can still exercise them but thye don't have you tell you what they are beforehand like they do when you're arrested.

A trained interviewer will try to trip you up into confessing things you haven't actually done - whilst this can in theory be pulled apart in court it is far better to cover yourself from the outset and take legal representation in with you.

As for solicitors having conflicts of interest - that's fine, find one that hasn't! There are loads about. As has been said already, the CAB are a good place to start, I once did a little admin work for them on a voluntary basis, they are an excellent organisation.