""(I am wondering what exactly he did with this "knowledge". Why had he become a witness all this time later?)""
Perhaps he thought that he'd better try and come out clean now, before the Shiite will hit the fan properly. We also all know that witnesses of the Crown will always be looked favourably, should the need ever arise during Court cases.
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