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- FIVE
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- EIGHT
- NINE
- TEN
- ELEVEN
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- FOURTEEN
- FIFTEEN
- SIXTEEN
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- EIGHTEEN
- NINETEEN
- TWENTY
- TWENTY-ONE
- TWENTY-TWO
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- TWENTY-SIX
- TWENTY-SEVEN
- TWENTY-EIGHT
- TWENTY-NINE
- THIRTY
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- FIFTY
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- SIXTY
- SIXTY-ONE
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- SEVENTY-NINE
- Acknowledgements
- OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK
‘Take him to his cell.’
The two officers did as instructed, taking Penfold by his arms and pulling him towards the door. Levy turned away as he passed, determined not to see his gloating face for a moment more.
She waited until he was gone before turning to Chadwick.
‘Get to the hospital. Find out what you can about the couple from the boat.’
‘What about Longman and Blunt?’
‘Forget about them for now. This is our priority for the moment.’
‘Do you really think the couple he attacked were on the job?’
‘I have no idea. All I know is Penfold’s not our man, but he was running from something. Maybe another squad was on to him for something, which means that we might have two coppers in hospital fighting for their lives. Right now, that’s what matters.’
FORTY
‘So is that it, Mr Devlin? Does that mean I can go home?’
Simon Kash sat in his regular seat in Interview Room Six. For the first time it did not seem to swallow him. Kash was still small, but he finally seemed energised.
‘We’re not even close to that, Simon.’ Michael was sorry to disappoint him. To see the hope in Kash’s eyes begin to fade. ‘It’s just one witness. There’s a lot still to come.’
‘But he agreed my phone wasn’t there at the murder. That it wasn’t with Darren’s phone?’
‘That’s right, Simon, but what does that actually prove? It proves your phone wasn’t there. It doesn’t prove that you weren’t there. It isn’t like you and your phone can never be apart, is it?’
‘But we weren’t apart, Mr Devlin. I had my phone with me the whole time. I always do.’
Michael was pleased to see some passion. It was about time.
The separation from O’Driscoll is starting to work.
‘I know that, Simon. But we’ve no evidence of that beyond your word. And the Crown still has evidence that they say puts you at the scene.’
‘You mean Terry Colliver? But he’s a liar, Mr Devlin. I was never there.’
‘I know that too. And I’ll try to prove that, Simon. But that’s for later. That’s still to come.’
Kash seemed to deflate. It made him look more childlike. As if Michael had taken away a new toy. Michael could not help but feel for him. He did not want him to lose hope.
‘Look, Simon. I’m not saying that we didn’t make great progress today. We did. It just wasn’t quite as much as you’d like to think. It was very important that we undermined the phone evidence, because it was important evidence. And now it’s gone.’
‘It’s better than gone,’ Jenny Draper interrupted. The first time she had spoken since Kash had been brought into the room. ‘Now it’s evidence for us, Simon. To support that you were somewhere else.’
‘But only to an extent.’ Michael did not appreciate Draper’s contribution. He did not believe in false hope. A sharp glance was enough to tell her exactly that. ‘Like I said, it proves that your phone wasn’t there.’