PUZZLE ::: Can you determine who stole the cake?

During a recent police investigation, Chief Inspector Stone was interviewing five local villains to try and identify who stole Mrs Archer’s cake from the mid-summers fayre. Below is a summary of their statements:

Arnold: it wasn’t Edward
it was Brian

Brian: it wasn’t Charlie
it wasn’t Edward

Charlie: it was Edward
it wasn’t Arnold

Derek: it was Charlie
it was Brian

Edward: it was Derek
it wasn’t Arnold

It was well known that each suspect told exactly one lie. Can you determine who stole the cake?

Charlie

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