‘You know, the first three to come out, not the first three in the series.’

‘Oh, good. I was about to go mad and text him some strong words,’ Gary joked. ‘Do you think he would be up to a visitor yet?’

‘I don’t know. He’s really not been well. I can ask him when I see him, though.’

‘Let him know I’m thinking about him.’

‘Why don’t you just call him?’ Imogen said.

‘I have; he doesn’t answer. I guess he is asleep or something.’ Gary shrugged.

‘How long until you get through all this lot, do you think?’

‘It could take a few days, I reckon. More if I go through the contracts or look through past business deals. I want to make sure I don’t miss anything. From what you have told me, this guy is a complete shit and deserves to be locked up. If we can’t get him for domestic abuse or murder, then we will get him on something white collar. Who cares as long as he is put away?’

‘I agree. Everything is a dead end at the moment and even if we could compel Angela to speak, I doubt she would say anything of use; she is too terrified of him. I think she would rather go to jail than bank on us putting him away.’

‘Well, let’s hope we can get her out of there some other way, then,’ Gary said.

‘Just quickly, can you see if there is anything on Reece Corrigan when he was younger, too? Like a juvey record or something. As an adult he’s been clean as a whistle, but it all had to start somewhere. I can’t help thinking we have missed something big.’

Gary tapped away at the keys for a few minutes and Imogen watched as he pulled up several documents at such a speed that it seemed impossible to glean any useful information from each one. Obviously, Gary knew what he was looking for.

‘OK, so yeah, he was on the periphery of a few things but never directly involved. Looks like he spent a few years in Liverpool, where he got mixed up with the wrong people. He was cautioned twice but then nothing.’

‘What was he cautioned for?’

‘A couple of cases of common assault when he was seventeen years old, both wiped from his record after two years because of his age. In both cases the victims didn’t speak out against him. There was a knife on the scene, but they couldn’t prove it was his, hence the caution and not an arrest.’

‘Sounds like our man.’

‘He had an older brother who was killed in a street fight. His father was in and out of prison, too. Mother left when he was still in nappies, so no strong female influence in his life.’

‘Get you, Mr Forensic Psychology. What was his dad in for?’