Valerie Hawthorne

Valerie Hawthorne V · T · F
Occupation	Detective (2007) Police sergeant ( - Feb. 2012)
Biological information
Reckoned birth year(s) (this is for age comparison purposes, and so may look odd; click on the question mark for details)?	1989
Documented age range (as recorded in court record profiles & case files)	23 (deceased)* (age at debut)
Eye color	Brown
Hair color	Black
Height (the metric (cm) values are sourced from official guidebooks and may not reflect the relative sizes of characters as depicted in-game or in other official media)	160 cm
Associates
Family	Dahlia Hawthorne (Stepsister, deceased) Iris (Stepsister) An unnamed father An unnamed mother
Friends	None mentioned
Affiliates	Terry Fawles (Accomplice, deceased) Dick Gumshoe (Co-worker)
Names in other languages
Japanese (romanization written with the given name first)	美柳勇希 (Miyanagi Yuuki)
French	Valérie Plantule
German	Valerie Hawthorne
Miscellaneous
Debut episode	Turnabout Beginnings

Valerie Hawthorne was a policewoman who was killed after Terry Fawles broke out of prison.

Kidnapping plot

When Valerie Hawthorne was 18, she was involved in a bogus kidnapping plot hatched by her younger sister Dahlia Hawthorne and Terry Fawles to steal a $2 million diamond from the Hawthornes' father. The staged chase reached its climax on Dusky Bridge; following a secret plan she had hatched with Dahlia, she betrayed Fawles, shooting him in the shoulder. Dahlia then jumped into Eagle River; Valerie later testified to the court that she saw Fawles push Dahlia off of Dusky Bridge. This resulted in a death sentence for Fawles.

Valerie later found Dahlia and secretly looked after her.

Death

Main article: Turnabout Beginnings

Five years later, Fawles was being transferred to another prison when his transport broke down. He broke out, stole a car, and phoned Valerie to come to Dusky Bridge to explain her actions. Valerie then told Dahlia that she would finally tell the truth about the plot. In response, Dahlia met Valerie on the bridge and stabbed her in the back, killing her. When Fawles arrived, Dahlia covertly hid the body in the stolen car and then met Fawles on the bridge, pretending to be Valerie.

Fawles was arrested and charged with Valerie's death.

During Fawles's trial, defense attorney Mia Fey proved her case against Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth. Although Fey managed to implicate Dahlia as the killer, Fawles did not cooperate with her in proving that Dahlia had done the deed, and committed suicide instead. Thus, Valerie's killer escaped conviction for several months.

Name

• Her English name "Valerie" comes from "valiant", meaning someone who shows courage or determination.

• "Hawthorne" is a topographic or habitational surname for someone who lived near a hawthorn hedge or in a place called Hawthorn.

• "Hawthorne" may also be a reference to her stepsister "having thorns".

• "Yuuki" means "courage" in Japanese.

• Her French surname "Plantule" means "seedling".