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‘Looks like Oakley he had less hair then, than he does no old was he?’’ asked Erika peering closer at the picture at his thinning hair

A the syrup when he got promoted to the DCI rank’

‘That’s Assistant Co on

‘We trained together at Hendon, graduated in 1978,’ said Amanda She cleared off some of the newspapers from the sofa and invited theolden handshake,’ said Moss It hung in the air for a moment They all sat down

‘Okay, so we’re just here informally to ask you about the Jessica Collins case I’ve been assigned it,’ said Erika

‘Who did you piss off?’ chuckled Aht they’d duh we searched it twice and there was nothing, so whether they kept her somewhere, or moved the body That’s your job to find out’

‘You were convinced it was Trevor Marksaze ‘He burned for it though And you knohat? I’d do it again’

‘So you freely adh his door’

‘Yep’ She looked at Erika, Moss and Peterson, adding, ‘don’t you ever want to take justice into your own hands?’

‘No’

‘Counned down by that druggie, plus four of your colleagues and he left you for dead Wouldn’t you love to have an hour in a room with him, just the two of you and a baseball bat covered in nails?’ She blew on her tea and kept eye contact with Erika

‘Yeah I would’

‘There you go then’

‘But I’d never do it Our job as police officers is to uphold the law, and not to take it into our own hands You also had an affair with Martin Collins?’

Ahed and put her tea down on the coffee table It was littered with rubbish

‘I did Him and Marianne were over, it o years after Jessica went ret that more than Marksed and pulled a pack of cigarettes from a pouch in the front of her jumper and lit up

‘Did anyone in the MET know?’

‘They knew But I was off the case I often think it was the only good thing I did for that faet, at least when he ith me’

‘Noe’ve found Jessica Do you still think Trevor Marks of her cigarette ‘I always think that if so is so bloody obvious then it has to be true… He had soh, and I think that when he took her He her kept somewhere’