Contents (83)
- ONE
- TWO
- THREE
- FOUR
- FIVE
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- SEVEN
- EIGHT
- NINE
- TEN
- ELEVEN
- TWELVE
- THIRTEEN
- FOURTEEN
- FIFTEEN
- SIXTEEN
- SEVENTEEN
- EIGHTEEN
- NINETEEN
- TWENTY
- TWENTY-ONE
- TWENTY-TWO
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- TWENTY-SEVEN
- TWENTY-EIGHT
- TWENTY-NINE
- THIRTY
- THIRTY-ONE
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- THIRTY-FIVE
- THIRTY-SIX
- THIRTY-SEVEN
- THIRTY-EIGHT
- THIRTY-NINE
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- FORTY-NINE
- FIFTY
- FIFTY-ONE
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- SIXTY
- SIXTY-ONE
- SIXTY-TWO
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- SIXTY-FOUR
- SIXTY-FIVE
- SIXTY-SIX
- SIXTY-SEVEN
- SIXTY-EIGHT
- SIXTY-NINE
- SEVENTY
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- SEVENTY-NINE
- Acknowledgements
- OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK
White stared straight ahead. He finally understood.
‘No, Mr Devlin. But I now think I can hazard a guess.’
‘Let’s not hazard anything, Mr White. It’s a matter of agreement between all parties. Mr O’Driscoll is registered to the TalkTalk network. Simon Kash’s phone is registered with the O2 network.’
‘I see.’
‘So please answer me this, Mr White. If Mr O’Driscoll was in the same place as Simon Kash and made a call from his TalkTalk phone, it could be picked up by the nearest O2 mast if that mast had capacity, could it not?’
‘Yes.’
‘But if Simon Kash then made a call from the same location and the nearest O2 mast was now at capacity, then one of the users from a non-O2 network – maybe Mr O’Driscoll, maybe someone else – would be ejected. Correct?’
‘That is correct. Yes.’
‘Which means what, Mr White? What is the only conclusion we can reach from the fact that Mr O’Driscoll’s call was taken by the O2-owned Mast Twenty-two but that the same mast at the same time did not pick up Simon Kash’s call from an O2 phone?’
White did not answer immediately. The only response he could give undermined him completely.
Hard words to utter, Michael thought. But he’s brought this on himself.
‘Well, Mr White?’
‘It means . . . it means that Mast Twenty-two was not the closest mast to Simon Kash’s phone at the time of those two calls.’
Michael looked towards the jury. He could see that they understood. Still, it never hurt to hammer a good point.
‘Which means, Mr White, that at those times – during the hours that the Crown say the Galloway brothers were tortured and murdered – Simon Kash’s phone was being used in an entirely different location to Darren O’Driscoll’s phone. Isn’t that right?’
‘That’s what the evidence now seems to suggest.’ White could give no other answer. ‘It seems that the phones were not together after all.’
‘Thank you, Mr White.’
Michael took his seat and looked to his left. Simon Kash was facing him. Michael smiled. And, for the first time, Kash smiled back.
THIRTY-EIGHT
‘How many passengers were on board?’
‘It was a capacity ferry, Sarah.’ James Elton’s voice was quiet. Slow. ‘Almost all on the upper deck, so hardly anyone saw the violence. But they caught the chase and then the guy’s dive. And the arrest.’
‘Mobile phones?’
‘What do you think? I’ve seen six different videos already. One on YouTube. The rest on Facebook. Makes you wonder why we still pay for cameramen.’
‘They’ve got their uses.’ Nathan might not be the best cameraman in the world, but Sarah was warming to him. And he was definitely better than some bystander with a smartphone and a shaky hand. ‘So why is this one coming to me? There must be a local team up there?’
‘Personal relations,’ Elton replied. ‘Watch this.’
Elton turned the flat-screen computer that sat on his desk. Halfway, so both he and Sarah could see. Sarah leaned forward as Elton pressed play.