April 17: The Medical report on Mycroft’s injuries confirms a right-handed assailant. The wound was clumsily inflicted, without medical or professional training. The knife was a single-bladed kitchen knife, recently in contact with olive oil and used to cut onions, potatoes, orange bell peppers, and parsley (DNA traceable to a Broadland Model GG700 kitchen tree), as well as sausage. The great boon of a complex meat product, produced, not in a home vat, but by a professional kitchen with limited production, indicates that the user of the knife shopped at one of only three hundred and thirty-six shops, all located in Europe.

April 22: I have found the room where Mycroft was stabbed (in Debrecen, which has eight shops supplying the aforementioned sausage). It still contains the chair Mycroft was tied to, and the residue of Mycroft’s blood, with Sniper’s footprints in it, along with the footprints of three others identified as close Sniper followers—they will be interviewed but their arrest delayed until after the Olympics. Dominic left no detectable trace in the room, nor did any other.

April 24: I had Mycroft tied in the same way to the same chair in the same room where they received their injuries, and had a series of people of varied heights and builds approach them from behind and bend as if to stab. Mycroft’s memory of footsteps and the angle of breath and blade verify that the assailant was between 165 and 174 cm in height and weighed between 90 and 105 kg, though a somewhat smaller person might feign this weight with bulky clothes.