Richard Wellington

"Richard Wellington"

- I am Richard Wellington, the "Drifting Virtuoso" with a Ph.D. in Drifting, as it were.

The sole witness of the murder of police officer Dustin Prince, Richard Wellington was a self-proclaimed "Drifting Virtuoso" who was looking for the "right" college.

Murder of Prince
Richard Wellington was a small-time con artist involved with a ring of other crooks. If anyone were to look into his cell phone, it would have been all over for him.

One day, Wellington lost his cell phone and tried to call it. It was finally answered by Maggey Byrde and Dustin Prince, who were going out on a date. He was promised his cell phone back, but when he got to the park, he found that the girl who picked up his phone was with a policeman. Fearing the worst, Wellington started to panic and attacked Officer Prince by pushing him off a ledge to the beach below, breaking his neck and killing him in the process. During the struggle, however, Prince grabbed his assailant's glasses and took them with him as he fell.

Wellington spent a lot of time looking for his glasses to no avail. Not wanting to be put on trial for his crime, Wellington decided to frame Byrde for the murder and wrote the name "Maggie" in the sand with the victim's right hand, not knowing how to spell Byrde's name, or the fact the victim was left-handed. Byrde was put on trial for the murder.

Witness

 * Main article: The Lost Turnabout

Prosecutor Winston Payne set Wellington up as a witness for the murder. Meanwhile, Byrde showed Wellington's phone to her defense attorney, Phoenix Wright, who "lit up" at the key piece of evidence. Later, just before the trial, Wellington called his phone and found that it was in Wright's possession. Wellington hastily knocked Wright out with a fire extinguisher, giving him amnesia, and took the phone Wright was holding.

Despite his amnesia, Wright figured out that Wellington's testimony did not hold water and that the way Wellington had set up the crime scene blatantly contradicted what was known about Byrde and Prince: that Byrde's first name was spelled "Maggey" and that Prince was left-handed. Wright eventually showed that Wellington was the real killer.

However, Wellington had wiped all the numbers on the phone in his possession and, in a last ditch attempt to protect himself, pointed out that unless he could demonstrate the ownership of the phone in his possession, it was impossible to prove he was the murderer. Unfortunately for Wellington, Wright then had his co-council Maya Fey call his own cell phone, which turned out to be the phone that the con artist had. Wellington had taken the wrong phone from the defense attorney; the phone still in Wright's possession was Wellington's.

Personality
"Phoenix Wright"

- (And yet again, another flood of meaningless words... Talk about a first-class waste of time...)

Wellington was an arrogant and egotistical man who was about as talkative as Wendy Oldbag. He would often make various allusions to historic figures and would compare himself and others to them. Before his appearance in court, Winston Payne warned the Judge that Wellington had a tendency to say things that rubbed people the wrong way. His overreaction to Prince seems to indicate he was overly paranoid and had lost the ability to make rational judgments.

Wellington usually wore glasses with near-sighted lenses due to poor vision (he said that both his eyes were 20/200 ). At one point he claimed to be a star baseball pitcher in junior high, but then admitted that he was actually fourth in line. He preferred strawberries over bananas.

When nervous, he would grab hold of his scarf. If he was startled he would then pull it, often choking him a little. When he was revealed as the murderer, he pulled it so tightly that his face turned blue and he passed out.

His mobile phone ringtone was Bach's Tocatta and Fugue.

Name

 * "Moroheiya" (諸平野) is the Japanese name for the corchorus, a plant of the family Malvaceae.


 * "Takamasa" (貴雅) is a stereotypical "rich kid" name.


 * His full English name comes from the words "rich" and "well", to give a feeling of him being rich or well-off. "Wellington" itself could also be a reference to the aristocratic Duke of Wellington British title.

Development

 * His dismissive head shake is similar to that of Kristoph Gavin.