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βI can get sex any time I want.β
βDoesnβt look that way to us. You were quickly reduced to pay and display, or starve.β
βI do all right.β
βYou are an angry man with a quick temper, a man who blatantly writes threatening messages late at night to vulnerable women living alone, and I quote again, βI could strangle youβ, and lo and behold what happens, that same threatened lady is murdered in her own home.β
βYouβre firing blanks, Darriteau. Is that the best youβve got, because youβve got bugger all! Charge me or let me go.β
βIs your wife back?β
βEh?β
βYou heard the Inspector.β
βWhatβs that got to do with anything?β
βJust answer the question.β
βNo, not yet, and donβt ask me where she is, for I have no idea.β
βWhen she returns could you ask her to ring me?β and Walter slipped his card cross the desk.
βWill I fuck!β
βThanks for your help Mr Speight, thatβs all for today.β
Speight sighed and looked surprised and said, βYou mean I can go?β
Walter nodded. βFor now. Unless thereβs anything else youβd like to tell us.β
βIβve got bugger all to say to you two,β and he kicked the chair back, muttering something about seeing his solicitor, and then he was gone.
βThat was a complete waste of time,β said Karen.
βYou think?β
βDonβt you?β
βNo, not entirely. Mrs West said we keep asking them questions until they trip themselves up.β
βSo?β
βWe have, and he didnβt, and thatβs probably because heβs telling the truth. I donβt believe Speightβs the killer.β
βSo who do you think is?β
βMore and more likely it looks like the fifth man.β
They exchanged glances and Karen knew the question that was coming next. She pre-empted it.
βIβm on the tech now.β
Walter nodded. βHowβs Nicky getting on?β
βHeβs going through Belβs finances. Nothing so far.β
βCrack on with it, KG.β
βWill do, Guv.β
CORLA REVELATION SAT alone in her house. The radio was on, but it always was, because Corla liked to keep fresh with the up-to-date tracks. The set was permanently tuned to the pirate station, Dee Bee Cee, and there was a solid reason for that. The station was owned and run by young blokes who happened to be good friends of her two nieces. Many of the local families rarely listened to anything else.
DBC pumped out mainly non-stop music, not just current stuff, but classics going back to the sixties, but in between the sounds there was a surprisingly decent news round up. Just as pirate stations have always done, those news stories were blatantly cribbed from the BBC, ITN, and SKY, and the local radio stations too.
The catchy on-the-hour station signature tune came on, and Corla hummed along. The news would follow in a second, as it always did, and the lead story could only be the Chester baseball bat murder, for nothing like it had happened in the city for quite some time.
There had been slight developments too. A little more information had been released. The deceased woman; named as thirty-six year old Belinda Cooper, resided not far from Corla, in a wide and pleasant street called Berryland Avenue. And there was more too. A twenty thousand pound reward had been put up by a local solicitor, one Gareth Williams, available to anyone who could provide information to bring the perpetrator to justice.
A radio station run by her niecesβ friends, a news item pinched from legit broadcasters, a murder in a house not so far away, and a decent reward now on offer, four facts that didnβt have a great deal to do with one another, but combined and sent through the airwaves, and out of Corlaβs modern radio, and swishing through her dyed blonde hair, and down her ears, and into her brain, and suddenly everything became crystal clear.
She remembered it all. She remembered everything. She had seen the killer on the night of the murder, and could identify him too, if required. Sheβd always known sheβd become involved in the case, and now she had. She opened her diary and spotted the direct number for Chester central police station, sheβd used it several times before, and carefully dabbed in the number. A minute later, and the call found its way to DC Darren Gibbons.
Thirty-One
Walter and Karen came back from the interview room. Gibbons was talking on the phone. He stood up and waved and caught their attention. They heard him say, βYes, someone will be with you in about twenty minutes. Yes. Donβt go out, weβre on our way now.β
βWhat?β said Walter.
βWitness, Guv, says she saw the murderer coming out of Belindaβs house on the night of the murder.β
βFan-bloody-tastic! Whatβs her name?β
βBit of an unusual one. Corla Revelation, so she says.β
βWhere does she live?β
βWarren Drive, number 20, not far from Belβs house.β
βCar, Guv?β said Karen, not wanting to miss out on a thing.
Walter nodded. βIβll be down in a sec,β and he hurried across to Mrs Westβs room and tapped on the open door, and held it open and peeped around the side, and brought Mrs West up to speed.
βLetβs hope sheβs not a time-waster,β said Mrs West, staring at her crammed screen of multi-coloured spreadsheets.
βWeβre overdue a break, maβam, this could be it.β
βHope so, my man, keep me posted.β
KAREN GRABBED A NEWISH navy blue BMW, no police markings, as he liked them, though for once they werenβt interested in the car.
Karen said, βWe have to drive down Berryland to get to Warren Drive,β and ten minutes later they were doing precisely that. Outside Belindaβs house a solitary Community Support Officer stood guard, while on the verge were two large grey vans, lots of personnel in the house, working hard, beavering away, seeking vital intel. A couple of minutes later, and they pulled into Warren Drive, a very similar suburban road packed with
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