"Ladies and gentlemen, it´s cabaret time, and we have a great favourite, a truly beautiful and talented act." "Please welcome Miss Vera Reynolds." "# Falling in love again" "# Never wanted to" "# What am I to do?" "# I can´t help it" "# Love´s always been my game" "# Play it how I may" "# I was made that way" "# I can´t help it" "# Men cluster to me..." "I don´t know nothing!" "I don´t know where he is." "I don´t know where he is." "?" "And if their wings burn" "# I know I´m not to blame" "# Falling in love again" "# Never wanted to" "# What am I to do?" "# I can´t help it" "# Falling in love again" "# Never wanted to" "# What am I to do?" "# I can´t help it" "# Love´s always been my game" "# Play it how I may" "# I was made that way" "# I can´t help it" "# Men cluster to me" "# Like moths around a flame" "# And if their wings burn" "# I know I´m not to blame" "# Falling in love again" "# Never wanted to" "# What am I to do?" "# I can´t help it" "So far apart from a recent case in the united States... known serial killers have all been male almost all white... often unusually intelligent and extremely cuning." " Have you got an ID on it?" " You are joking?" "We can´t even tell whether it´s male or female." "Most victims have been female, usually young women, whose death is frequently accompanied by a violent sexual assault." "Invariably, there is evidence of torture and mutilation." "Richard Trenton Chase, the Sacramento Vampire Killer, arrested for seven murders." "Note his own handwriting, taken from a scrawled message left a the scene of one of his crimes." "Quote:" "Catch me before I kill more." "I cannot control myself." "Unquote." "Now, later, I´ll come back to the clues the handwriting gave us... as an insight to the killer´s personality." "I thought it went pretty well tonight." "Better than last Tuesday." " It felt more relaxed, don´t you think?" " Are you always impressed with you?" "How long are you going to be away for?" "Two weeks." " You are coming with me?" " I can´t." "I can´t." "I´m starting a new job on Monday." "Sorry." "Are we still going back to the hotel?" "Yeah." "Just for a drink." "We´ll get the rest of the clothes cut off and see what´s left." "Could be a Vera/Vernon Reynolds." "What´s that supposed to mean?" "Taken four years off your age." "Serial killers are big business." "At least they were last year." "I think I missed the gravy train." "Story of my life." " May I?" " One?" "Just one?" "Take one, you get eight complimentary copies." "Would you sign it for me?" "Sure." "Thank you." "Why won´t you come with me?" " I don´t want to get hurt again." " Again?" "That doesn´t make sense." "There wasn´t anyone else before, you know, Jake." "It was just all going too fast." "It was such a big decisión." " Why didn´t you talk it through with me?" " You´d have made the decisión for me." "Would that have been so bad?" "There´s no point in discussing it now." "There may not be for you, but there is for me." "I wanted to marry you." "I wanted to have kids with you." "You know that." "Don´t I deserve more than a kiss-off phone call..." ""I´m sorry, Jake." "It´s not going to work"?" " You never gave it a chance." " I didn´t know you wouldn´t come back." "What did you expect me to do?" "Come runing after you?" "You said it was over, then you hung up on me." "Now you´re doing the same thing." "What are you so afraid of?" "This is ridiculous." "I mean, everything is different now." "It was a long time ago." "I shouldn´t have started seeing you again." "So why did you come tonight?" "Maybe I couldn´t stay away." "No." "I think I´d better go." "Just stay tonight, then I´ll go on my book tour and you go..." "Vice." "I´m heading the Vice Squad." "No." "Jake, I mustn´t." "I..." "I mustn´t." "The paraffin heater was found here, not as described on the far wall." "It was cold that night, so the boy lies down." "Maybe he´s moved the fire closer from there to here." "No." "It was found with the ridges facing away from the settee." "If he´d moved it to get warm by, the heater outlet would have been the other way round." "Please, don´t touch anything in the room." " Please." " It´s my album." "Don´t look." "Just don´t look." "You´re insured." "Keep saying to yourself, "I am insured. "" "You´ll have to get every carpet replaced." "The water´s done more damage out here than the fire." " Hello." "Vice Squad." " Are we supposed to sit here all morning?" "Right, I suggest we give it another five minutes, then get on with the day´s schedule." "I need an ID on the body in the flat last night." "Vera rents it, but it wasn´t her." " It was some kid, 16 or 17." " Working overtime, are we?" "She doesn´t seem overanxious to get started." "Cut it out!" "John Kenington´s formal resignation accepted due to ill health" "Case dismissed." "What?" "You´d better make damn sure it stays that way." "Yeah." "I´ve just been told." "I´ll see you there." "Why not?" "Well, we´ll have to." "Otherwise, it´ll look suspicious." "Good." "Oh, I´d better be on my way over to you now." "Your new DCI should be there any moment." "Call my wife." "Got a dinner tonight." " Ask her to send over my dinner suit." " Yes, Commander Chiswick." "Jane it´s me..." "Look we can´t just leave it like this..." "I´m leaving this evening I´ll call you later..." "Got any more on the barbecue kid?" "I´ll have to do more tests, but he had a nasty crack over his skull." "Legs and one arm, third-degree burns, heat lacerations." "The rest of the body is done to a crisp." "We´ve got an elevated carboxyhaemoglobin." "Blood pink, owing to a high level of the same." "Bloody hell." "Looks like someone took an axe to him." "There was a bomb scare and all the traffic was diverted and my batteries on my phone were down, so I couldn´t..." " Anyway, I´m sorry I´m late." " That´s the main area." "You have a good, hard-working team assigned to you." "If you want to settle yourself in," "I´ll see if Chief Superintendent Halliday has made arrangements." " Thank you, sir." " He´s right next door." "DCI Mansell to the charge room." "Urgh!" "Come in." "You are?" "I´m Norma Hastings." "I was told to bring these to you." "OK." "Thank you." "Can I have a list of all the officers on the squad, please?" " Didn´t you get one?" " No." "I only just got here." "Could you get that for me and get them all collected in the main office?" "Most of them are out." "Would you like a coffee?" "No, just the list, please, love." "Oh, yeah, I´ll have a coffee." "I have it black with a little bit of slimline milk." "Yes, ma´am." "I told you, I did the show, then I went out for a bite to eat with some friends." "And you didn´t know he was in your flat?" "Come on." "Vernon, if I go out and leave someone kipping in my place," "I wouldn´t say I don´t know who they are." "I mean that is stupid isn´t it?" "It could have been any number of people." "You see, it´s well known that I leave a key on top of the front door." "About 17 years old, reddish blonde hair." "Ring any bells?" "Yeah?" "Sorry." "The fire team would like Mr Reynolds as soon as possible." "Oh, and can you get everybody together same as this morning for 1230 sharp?" "She´s here." "I want you to give Operation Contract your fullest and immediate attention" "Now, I know it will be a new area for you, but I am confident your past experience will be an added bonus" "It´s imperative, and I repeat, imperative that we get results, and fast." " There´s been enough time wasted." " Right, sir." "Well, I haven´t had time to familiarise myself... with all the cases that I´ll be taking over, but yes, of course, I will make Operation Contract a priority." "Good." "Well, the team will fill you in on our progress to date, but I was expecting to see you a little earlier." "Yes, well..." "Oh..." "She´s not going to like this, Norma." "You should be in the meeting." "Obviously, I´ve got a lot of catching up to do, so..." "I will need your cooperation." "I´d appreciate..." "It´s Inspector Hall, is it?" "Laurence Hall?" "Yeah." "Well, let´s you and me get off on the right footing, shall we?" "If I ask everyone to be here at a certain time," "I really would appreciate it, unless you have a very good excuse." "I´m sorry." "I had to take Reynolds to the fire unit." "I´m waiting for the report." " Is Otley with Reynolds?" " Yeah." " You know about the fire, do you?" " Yeah, I do." "But I´d like to know what this department has got to do with this fire and this boy." "I mean, I know Vernon Reynolds and what he is, but that´s not against the law." "Well, one; it was on our patch, in the area we´ve been targeting on Operation Contract." "Two; dead boy was possibly a rent boy." "Vernon was probably taking a few quid for letting him..." " Has he admitted that?" " No." "He´s not likely to, is he?" "He´s saying he doesn´t even know he was in there." "Well, I would like a full report on this fire business, and then I will tell you if we will continue with the investigation." "until then, our priority is Operation Contract." "Thank you very much." "What´s your name?" " Sorry, Kathy." " Kathy, right." "Will you give me a full rundown on Operation Contract?" "Please." "Yes." "Um..." "Well, because most of the older rent boys... are carrying pagers and portable phones, we´ve - sorry, that´s four of us, ma´am, we´ve been concentrating on the younger ones driving round Soho" "and we´ve staked out Waterloo Street, Golden Fleece..." "So, what´s your role in all this?" "Well, basically, I´ve been questioning as many of the kids as possible." "Our problem is that once the kids are on the street..." " You deal with Reynolds and the fire team." " Right." "The boy´s called Colin Jenkins, known as Connie." "Er..." "I´m sorry I´m late, ma´am, but um..." "I´ve been seeing if I could get..." "your drawers loosened." " I´ll see you in my office, please." " Yes, ma´am." "Right, Sergeant, I´m not going to take any crap, and I´m not going to let you stir things up." "Either you´re going to work with me or I´ll have you transferred." "OK, I was out of line at Southampton Row, but, having said that..." "I know you did a good job." "Oh, thank you very much." "So, what´s it going to be?" "Are you going to work with me or not?" "I got ID on the boy in the fire at Reynolds´ place." "He was a runaway, 15 years old at the time." "Colin Jenkins, known as Connie." "Now, all the state-run homes have the kids´ teeth checked on a regular basis, and his records were on file." "Good." "So, what´s this boy got to do with Operation Contract?" "It was supposed to be a slow start to a massive cleanup operation." "All the areas targeted up there are supposed to be the rent boys´ areas." " It´s Halliday´s obsessión." " And?" "So?" " Well, that´s what it is, cleanup operation." " Why´s it taking so long?" "Cos it´s a bloody cockup, excuse the pun." "Guv´nor before you got dumped." " Somebody had to take the blame." " A few of us think there was a leak." "Word got out cos there was no punters, no boys on the streets." "Did a big cleanup, came away with nothing." "Had to be a leak." "Chiswick and Halliday keep on pushing it." "And see now, the buck stops with you, ma´am." "Hello." "I don´t have a first-class ticket, but I´m..." " It´s OK." "She´s with me." " That´s OK." "Well, I´ve never been in here before, but then I don´t often travel first-class either." "I´ve got about an hour before my train, but I wanted to..." "Yeah, I´m really glad you called, because there is this case I´m working on..." "I don´t want to talk about work, Jane." "I just didn´t think that we... or I could walk away without..." " What refreshments can I get for you?" " Whisky and soda, please." "Well, I´m very impressed." "I never even knew this was here." "Jane, we have to talk, because..." " Jane, I´m married with four kids." " Yeah." "It´s on the flyleaf of your book." "Yeah, but what isn´t is the way I feel about you, the way I´ve always felt." "No, you wrote that on the front of the book." "Can you be serious for a second, for Christ´s sakes?" " There´s no point." "There is no point." " Then why did you come?" "Because I wanted to ask your opinion on this case that I´m working on." "I don´t believe you." "One for you there." "Thank you." "Look, I knew you were married." "I shouldn´t have stayed." "So, why did you?" "Because you wanted me to." "Jake..." "It was because I wanted to." "You know I´m a glutton for punishment." "It´s why I´m so good at my job." "Well, I got what I wanted." "I got my job, and you got married." "So, maybe we both got what we wanted, and if we didn´t, we´ve got no-one to blame but ourselves." "What a mess!" "No, it´s not." "We´re going to do exactly what we agreed to do." "We´re not going to see each other again." "You´re going to get on that train, and I´m going to..." "Anyway, in the meantime..." "I love you." "Yeah." "I know." "So, what´s this case you´re working on?" "Hello." " How can I help you?" " Oh, yeah..." "Do you know Colin Jenkins?" "Yes." "Red-haired lad." "I need to ask some of the lads about him." " He´s dead." " Yes, I know." "Terrible." "He was on the game, wasn´t he?" " Is this official?" " Oh, yeah." "I´ve discussed all this with an Inspector Hall and I´ve promised him that I will do whatever I can to help with the enquiry." "I would appreciate if you could keep as low a profile as possible, because some of the boys get a bit edgy when they´re faced with authority." "Hello, son." "Do you know Colin Jenkins?" "I think your boy was already dead." "The autopsy would say that the fluid taken from the blisters... showed no sign of vital reaction." "So, if the fire wasn´t accidental, he was murdered." "Is that what you´re saying?" "What does pugilistic attitude mean?" "Arms held out, legs... flexed." "It´s caused by the coagulation of the muscles on the flexor surface of the limbs." "So the body could show that it was still in a sitting-up position." "Jane..." " I´ll be back in London next weekend." " No." "No more meetings." "We agreed." "Will be leaving from Platform 13" "That´s your train." "Don´t call me again, please." "I´ll get that." "So, there we all are..." "It´s a sweep-it-under-the-carpet job, and I´ve been warned to keep it there." "We wade across this crop stuff, and we get to the vehicle, and there´s a note on the windscreen, and it says, "Stuck in the mud." "Gone for help. "" "So..." "So, I would now like to propose my toast and give my very best wishes for a happy and productive retirement to John Kennington." "Gentlemen, please raise your glasses." "John Kennington." "Gentlemen, your attention please, for Commander Trayner." "I er..." "I first met John Kennington in Manchester a long time ago." "Well said, Mike." "But, like Mike Kernan, I have some very happy as well as some not-so-great memories." "There was a time when John Kennington and I were with a certain commanding officer, who shall remain nameless, when John brings..." "Why don´t they just give him his watch so we can all piss off?" "unless there´s a cabaret." "Eh?" " Is there a cabaret?" " Yeah." " Are you not drinking?" " All right, you´ve forced me." "I need an interview room and someone to take a statement." " You´re not down for tonight." " This kid knows something, but he´s scared." "You coming with me?" " How old is he?" " 17." "I´m out of here." "I can´t take this crap any longer." "Someone should ask him to start the cabaret, like he does at the Bowery Roof Club." "Bowery what?" "See that bloke there with the iron-grey hair?" "The emphasis on iron." "Judge Syers." "See if he can get you a membership." "Excuse me." "Judge Syers, isn´t it?" "We met at a lodge dinner a few weeks ago." "#... devil" "# Yeah, yeah, yeah" "# It´s better the devil, devil" "# Yeah, yeah, yeah" "# Baby, don´t do things, that make me blue" "# You know my love is always true" "# Baby don´t do things that make me cry" "# I just can´t seem to sleep at night" "# You know I love him every day" "# It breaks my heart when he goes away" "# Better the devil you know than the devil you don´t" "# Ah-ha-ah ah-ha" "# I´ll give you my heart and my soul if you give me your love" "# Ah-ha-ah ah-ha" "# Better the devil you know than the devil you don´t..." "Hello, Vera." "How are you feeling?" "I understand you´ve had bad news." "It was an accident, a total accident." " I´m sorry." "If there´s anything I can..." " I don´t want money." "How about a drink?" "# You know I love him every day" "# It breaks my heart when he goes away" "# Better the devil you know than the devil you don´t" "# Ah-ha-ah ah-ha" "# I´ll give you my heart and my soul if you give me your love" "# Ah-ha-ah ah-ha" "# Don´t tell me lies, boy..." "I fully intend to raise the matter in the House." "Joining good friends as usual." " Well?" " Terrible." "I´ve got ruddy gout!" " First time out for weeks." " Colin Jenkins is dead." "I think he liked to be called Connie." "We should talk." "Has anyone had any past dealings with this Colin Jenkins?" "He might have been pulled in a few months back." "We rounded a lot up." "Now, I can´t find his report, but I´m sure that a Jenkins, I think it was a Bruce Jenkins, was interviewed with a social worker because he was underage." " What´s this Advice Centre?" " One of the places we targeted." "I´ve already been there." "The guy that runs it..." "Mr Parker-Jones." "He states he hadn´t seen our Connie for months." "Has it been confirmed yet whether the fire was accidental or arson?" "Don´t know." "The fire team´s still working on it." "Jane, can I have a word?" " Yeah, sure." " I want to run over a few things." "Guv, there was an emergency call, 9:15, night of the fire." "The caller didn´t leave his name." " What call?" " Someone called an ambulance." "From Reynolds´ address?" "Get them to send over a recording." "Last night, a lad called Martin Fletcher was brought in." "I´m not going to explain the circumstances, but the last thing we need is any aggro from the social services about the questioning of underage kids without legal advisors." "Oh, Christ." "Have I got a headache!" "Oh, I´d like you to set up meetings with the British Transport Police" "Get in all the centres and halfway homes in our area." "I´d like another swoop on the areas we´ve targeted." "Right, sir." "Oh, you know this boy, Colin Jenkins, who was in the fire?" "Well, according to the squad, he was on the game." "Well, he isn´t any more, so he´s one less to worry about." "This is DCI Tennison." "I want Otley and Hall in my office as soon as possible." "Thank you." "You´ve had three messages:" "Fire team and forensic department and someone called Jessica Smithy." "She´s a journalist doing a piece on rent boys." " What paper is she from?" " She didn´t say." "Right, Norma." "Out, thank you." "Close the door after you." "Excuse me." "What the hell do you two think you´re playing at?" "Last night, and according to the roster, you were not on duty, but last night the pair of you interviewed a Martin Fletcher." " Is that correct?" " Aye." "Well, when later interviewed by his social worker, a Miss Margaret Speel, she saw extensive bruising to his face, arms and upper neck." "Wait, wait." "He was brought in like that." "She´s filed a complaint against this department, of which, in case you haven´t noticed, I am head." "Martin Fletcher, you idiots, he´s 14 years old!" "Oh, Christ!" "He swore under caution he was 17." "And as such, he should have been allocated a lawyer, an appropriate adult or a social worker, so which one of you wants to start?" "There´s a known heavy." "He beats up on the young kids." "His name´s Jackson." "James Jackson." "Yeah?" "Well, go on." "He picks up the kids, really young ones, in and around central London." "Euston, Charing Cross, King´s Cross..." " All right." "I know the stations." " Martin Fletcher was one of his boys." "I brought him in because..." "I thought he might help us get a handle on why Connie was in that flat." "We wanted to to talk to him about Colin Jenkins, then he starts telling us about Jackson." "The bastard plucks them off the station, feeds them, gives them a place to stay, and that´s it, he´s got them, you see." "And it´s not only the boys, it´s the young, only the very young girls." "He drugs them, keeps them dependent." "Is all this past history, or did Martin Fletcher tell you this?" "We´ve known about the scams, but we´ve never been able to get any kids to name Jackson, and he´s one of our main targets." " We don´t know where he holds the kids." " Wait a minute." ""Holds the kids"?" "You mean he kidnaps them?" "No, no, no." "They go willingly." "And I´m talking here about kids as young as 12 and 13." " I mean, sometimes younger." " None of the kids will talk." "We´ve pulled Jackson in loads of times." "We even managed to get charges compiled against him." "The statements are always withdrawn." "The kids are terrified of him." "They won´t go against him." "So, when Martin tells us Jackson beat him up because he wanted to know where Connie was, we thought, you know, we´re onto something." " Have you read my report?" " Oh, yes." "Oh, yes, I have." "Er... blah, blah, blah..." ""Otley:" "Did you know Connie?" "Fletcher:" "No." "Otley:" "Come on, Martin." "He was murdered. "" "But we do not, as yet, know that Connie was murdered." "Excuse me, guv." "The point is, Jackson beat up Martin Fletcher on the night that Connie died." "Look. "Hall:" "What time did Jackson beat you up?" "Fletcher:" "Eight to nineish. "" "And this was the same night that Connie died?" "Yeah." "Do we have a realistic time of when that fire was started?" "Yeah, about 9:30." "Jackson could have done it, but even if he didn´t, this could be a chance to get him off the streets while we get the kids to talk." "Let´s get Fletcher back in for questioning, shall we?" "And also, let´s bring in Jackson, just to help with enquiries." "Yeah." "I´ll deal with Margaret Speel." "The body was found here, on the settee, and this is, or was, a paraffin oil heater." "The seat of the fire." " Was it an accident?" " No." "This was pushed or kicked forward, and there were signs that paraffin had been distributed around the room, probably from a canister of fuel that we found by the door." "If, say, for example, you stand by the fireplace, and, say, you trip, now, you´d hit that table, but it shows no indication of the victim having fallen." "Also, if he had, say, fallen against the heater, then he would have been lying that way round." "His head would have been at that end." "It´s official." "The fire wasn´t accidental." "In that case, it´s nothing to do with us, then, is it?" "Oh, well, thank God for that." "Make sure she understands this is the Vice Squad." "Any other crimes are forwarded to the correct department." "We might have a bit of a problem." "The boy was earmarked in Operation Contract." "Could be a tie-in, but I´ll have a... a word." "You´d better." "I don´t want her or us to have anything to do with this murder, so reallocate the investigation, and, Jack, she has no option." "Did he leave a number?" "Yeah." "OK, I´ve got that." "Anything else?" "Oh, God, not again." "Just tell her I´m unavailable, will you?" "Put her onto the press officer." "All right?" "Bye." "Well, it´s official." "The fire wasn´t accidental." " What´s all this?" " Money, or the remains of it." "We´ve got some under the microscope, but there´s a lot." "The clothes, all good, expensive items." "We got the label from his leather coat." "It was Armani." "Did Martin Fletcher mention this?" "Could that be what Jackson was after?" "These are sections of photographs, all beyond salvaging, but they were stuffed inside his jacket." "And there´s scraps of paper, all charred, I´m afraid." "Could be letters, possibly." "It´s hard to tell." " Is that it, then?" " This is all that´s left of him." "Let´s bring in Vera Reynolds again." "All right, mate." "How are you doing?" "I know you, don´t I?" "From Liverpool?" " Yeah." " Do you know er..." "Oh..." "Steve Wallace?" "Right, we´re on our way." "Jackson´s hanging around Platform 11." " Vera has admitted that she knew Colin." " Connie." "He didn´t like his name." " Sometimes he called himself Bruce" " Bruce?" "Bit butch for that sort, wasn´t it?" "Vera, the sooner this is all sorted out, the sooner you can leave." "On the other hand, if you killed your little feathered friend," "I´ll put you where the birds can´t shit on you." "If it´s proved to be arson, I mean if somebody did it, does that mean I won´t get the insurance?" " Oh, God..." "All my costumes..." " Never mind your costumes." "What about Connie?" " Who do you think set him alight?" " I don´t know." "We´ve got Jackson and the probation officer waiting to see her." " Martin Fletcher´s being brought in." " Five minutes." "Why did you lie about Connie?" " Oh, no." "I´ve given up." " I´ve tried." "I´ve had the patches." "I´ve got patches for hormones, nicotine..." "My arse looks like an old pub table." "I´ve even tried the chewing gum." "How did you give up?" "With difficulty." "Look, you´d better help me, Vera, because I´m losing my patience." "Why did you lie?" "I wasn´t lying about knowing him." "Nobody really knew him." "He was very gentle, very beautiful." "He wanted to be a model, a professional model." " He used to answer the adverts." " Oh, Jesus." "What about this?" "What about James Jackson?" "He´s an animal who should be caged." "Did Connie have someone looking after him, say Jackson?" "You mean like a pimp?" "No, the older boys don´t have them really, not like toms." "Yeah, go on." "I would help you." "You know that?" "I always have in the past." "You´re not like the others." "I´ve always appreciated the way you speak to me." "I just can´t help." "Maybe..." "Maybe, Vera?" "Maybe what?" "He used the Advice Centre, for letters, I know that." "Edward Parker-Jones runs it." "All right, well, that´s it." "Thank you, Vera." "Norma, would you show Vera out?" "Give this to Kathy." "Get her to check it out." "Martin Fletcher´s in reception." "You should have a word with Martin before Jackson." "Oh, guv, a couple of messages." "That journalist again, Jessica Smithy rang." "I´ve told her to contact the press office." "She..." "Just leave my messages on my desk." "I´ll deal with Martin first." "By the way, Romerod rang." "Wednesday AM is absolutely fine." " You´re going the wrong way, Vera." " I want to talk to you." "Look, if it gets out that it was me who told you..." "You didn´t tell me anything." "Please, don´t let it go." "You dig deep." " Where´s Martin Fletcher?" " Room 5, next to the coffee machine." " Where´s the coffee machine?" " Colin Jenkins." " Can you give me the case records?" " Yes, sir." "Where´s the coffee machine?" "Make sure you get everything to me ASAP." "That´s first-hand, Chief Inspector." "I don´t want anything sprung on me." "uderstood?" " Oh, absolutely, sir." " I´ll be in my office." " The coffee machine´s?" " Down there on the right." "Down where?" "Down there?" "Down there?" "Do you understand the question, Martin?" "We´re getting tired." "We´ve all been here a long time." "Martin, last night, you talked to Sergeant Otley and Inspector Hall, and you said that the man who attacked you..." "No." "They were words put in my mouth." "I never told nobody nothing." "That´s the God´s truth." "Look, I´ve got it written down here." "You said the man´s name was Jackson and he asked you where Colin Jenkins was." "No." "I never said that neither." "What happened was, you know the escalators, the top of King´s Cross?" " Yes." " I was coming down them." "My coat got caught and I fell forward and hit my face." "Then I got up and I fell over again and I hit my nose." " Nobody hit me." " So you lied to the police officers?" "Yeah." "Yeah, I suppose so." "Yeah, I lied cos I´m underage." "Martin, did you know Colin Jenkins?" "Connie?" "Yeah." "Not well." "He was a red-haired bloke, wasn´t he?" "Quentin House." "He was there with me." "And now, he´s burnt to a crisp." "That´s the joke going round, Quentin Crisp, the famous poofter." " Have you ever had sex with a man?" " Me?" "No." "How about a blow job?" "Ever done that?" "Yeah, a few times, when I´m broke." "I ain´t into all that." "I´ve got other means of employment." "Oh, yeah?" "Such as what?" "Breaking and entering, nicking cars, radios." "Do a bit of begging, sell my life´s story to the newspapers." "Now, you listen to me, Martin." "You think you can play games with us... lie to us and it´s all a joke, isn´t it?" "Well, it´s not." "Colin Jenkins is dead." "There´s no-one to claim his body, no-one to even bury him." "No-one cares about Colin Jenkins but us, and you´re next, Martin." "You´re the next little dead body we find down there." "You know that?" "Want people to care about you?" " He denies knowing Martin Fletcher." " Martin Fletcher denies his whole statement." "Can we hold Jackson on trying to pick that boy up at the station?" "So we´ve got nothing on him?" "No prints from Vera´s flat?" " Nothing on a possible weapon?" " No, nothing." "God!" "Open the window." "Shut that door." "You take that smile off your face, cos I´m going to send you away for a long time." " What am I supposed to have done?" " You were caught approaching a juvenile, attempted murder of another juvenile, and that you did, on the 17th, murder Colin Jenkins." "Sit down." " Have you read him his rights yet?" " Yeah." "Sergeant, has he given you a contact number for his brief?" "All right, what´s your full address?" "Flat 4, Addison Lane Estate." "My mother´s place." " And your name is James Paul Jackson?" " Yes, that´s my name." "uemployed." "Arrested." "No charges." "No charges." "Well, you´re very well known to Vice, aren´t you?" "Well, you´ve been lucky up to now, cos we haven´t been able to charge you until we´d interviewed Martin Fletcher." "I never touched Colin Jenkins." "I wasn´t even there." "I wasn´t at Vernon Reynolds´ flat full stop." "End of questions." "Yeah, but you admit that you attacked Martin Fletcher?" "I was at the Advice Centre." "Ask Mr Parker-Jones." "He saw me there." "There was also a kid called Alan Thorpe." "I´ve got three or four more witnesses to prove I was there." " This is just a ridiculous waste of time." " Why were you looking for Colin Jenkins?" "I never found him." "I admit I was looking for him." "Martin must have told you that." "I was looking for Connie, but I never found him." "Yeah." "But why were you looking for him?" " He owed me some money." " Oh, yeah?" "How much?" " A couple of hundred." " Two hundred quid?" "That´s a lot of money." " You´re unemployed." " That´s why I wanted it back." "Look, I´ll be honest with you." "Sometimes, I do the odd trick." "Yeah?" "Well, jobs are really hard to come by, you know?" "And my mum, she gets behind with the rent, so I blow a few blokes, and I don´t like it when some kid nicks my dough." "Now, I´m not going to lie about Martin Fletcher." "I suppose I just lost my temper." "You´re telling me he´s going to press charges?" "Martin?" "No way." "Like you say, it was a lot of money." "Now, I´m not saying anything until I get my brief," "Because you´re er... you´re not listening to what I´m saying." "All right, take him back down to the cells, until we have, as requested, contacted his brief, and verified his alibi witnesses." "What´s her name?" "As Colin Jenkins´ death is now a homicide," "I suggest we hand it over to the correct department." "Oh, no, we are making progress." "I mean, I´ve got a very strong suspect in custody, Jackson, and he´s got direct links to Operation Contract." " Go on." " Well, he´s very well known to Vice." "In fact, he´s been questioned by them on several occasions." "If he did, in fact, murder Colin Jenkins, that´s going to act as a lever for more information." "Oh, incidentally, there´s this Advice Centre that keeps cropping up, you know, run by a man called Edward Parker-Jones." "At no time did Operation Contract initiate an investigation into Edward Parker-Jones." "No, I wasn´t contemplating an investigation into him." "It´s just that he´s my suspect´s main alibi, and, the longer we have Jackson banged up, the easier it is to question the kids." "All right, but just let me know if there are any new developments." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Sure." " Guv, can you spare a minute?" " Yeah." "You asked if Colin Jenkins had been brought in." "He was." "He used the name Bruce Jenkins, and he was charged with soliciting." " Who interviewed him?" " Sergeant Otley." "Now, it was almost a year ago, and he was underage, so a social worker had to come in and take over from the department." "Now, I have contacted her." "She´s not much help, but she´s sending her report anyway." " OK." "Thanks." " Right." "What was I supposed to do?" "Look, if she isn´t suspicious now, she will be if I pulled her off it." "She knows nothing." "Because I´m sure." "Yes, well, we´d just better make damn sure it stays that way." "The deceased, Colin Jenkins, was, according to the path reports, unconscious when the fire took hold, but his death was due to carbon monoxide poisoning." "Therefore, we´re now treating the case as a murder." "As it´s clear from fire reports... that the fire was not accidental, but an act of arson..." "We all have a backlog of cases, and my own feelings concerning this murder and its obvious complexities are that we keep it in-house, so I want this case brought to a conclusión as fast as possible, and I´ve requested back-up to assist Detective Chief Inspector Tennison´s enquiry" "from CID AMIT Area Seven and Eight." "Thank you." " Bloody hell." " Sir, I do not need any assistance." " I already have a very strong suspect." " Jackson, earmarked in Operation Contract." "I would like to be informed first... of any decisions concerning the Colin Jenkins investigation." "I´ll bear it in mind, Chief Inspector." "Oh, I´m sorry, Jane." "I didn´t have time this morning to introduce you." "This is one of your new team, DI Brian Dalton." "Brian, this is Chief Inspector Jane Tennison." " Good morning." " How do you do?" "Yes I want to report an accident Flat 5" "I need an ambulance" " I want to report an accident Flat 5" " That call was logged at 9:15." " Do you recognise that voice?" " I want to report an accident Flat 5" " Not Vernon, is it?" " No." " I want to report an accident Flat 5" " Didn´t leave his name?" "Oh, yeah." "Just replaying this cos we like the sound of his voice." "Jackson´s with his brief." "Did we trace any of those alibi witnesses yet?" "No, just stay here a minute, would you?" " A bit overqualified, isn´t he?" "Dalton." " You interviewed Colin Jenkins." "Did it slip your mind?" "I am trying to get a handle on him and you interviewed him!" "I had a two-minute conversation with him just after I got here." "What was he like?" "Was he dumb?" "Intelligent?" "Was he soliciting?" "Was he caught in the act?" " Come on, you questioned him." " He was a very quiet lad." "That´s all I know." "I want Martin Fletcher brought back in again, and you can take Dalton with you." "And there was another kid called Kenny Lloyd." "He was there, and... oh, yeah, Driscoll." "Don´t know his first name." "Disco Driscoll." "And Alan Thorpe, Billy Matthews, they was with me from about... 8:30 onwards at the Advice Centre." "Played some pool, watched some TV." "I´ve told you all this." "I even told you about Mr Parker" " Jones being there..." "We´ll check these witnesses up." "util then, you will remain in custody." "My client has clearly stated that on the evening in question, he has not one but five witnesses, and you were given their names yesterday." "Mr Arthur, until we can verify that your client was where he said he was, he is going to remain in this nick." "What about these other charges?" "You have held my client for nearly 24 hours." "If there are other charges to be levelled, we have a right to know what they are." " Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." " We can´t find Martin Fletcher." "He was at the Bullring last night, Waterloo uderpass this morning." "That social worker, Margaret Speel, does she know where he is?" " No." " Then get back out and find him." "Find every one of his alibis, and wheel them in, every one of them." " Take him back to the cells." " How long can they hold me here?" "What time did you bring my client here?" "The exact time, Inspector." "Oi, you, move it." "We´re looking for a kid named Disco Driscoll." "I´m talking to you." "What´s that?" "I´m making a model aeroplane." "What do you think?" "The kid with the lager can, that´s Kenny Lloyd." "Oi, go easy on him." " Hello, son." " 20 quid." " Down the toilets." " You just blew more than you expected, son." " I´m a police officer." " OK, so I´ll make it ten." "Watch it." "I want to ask you a few questions." "All right?" "It´s about that fire." "You heard about it?" "You know Colin Jenkins?" "Connie." "Eh?" "Hey!" "Ow!" "Enough!" " Come on, leave off!" "Leave off!" " The bastard bit me!" " Come on!" " Leave off!" "Leave him alone!" "I don´t know nothing!" "I don´t know anything!" " What´s your name?" " Billy." " Billy what?" " Billy Matthews." "You telling me porkies?" "Eh?" "Guv..." "Um... excuse me." "This is a private office." "Um... could you leave us, please?" "Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison." " And you are?" " Edward Parker-Jones." "Can I see that?" "Yeah, of course." "Thank you." "So, how can I help you, Chief Inspector?" "Well, I´m making an investigation into the death of Colin Jenkins." "You know him." "So..." "Well, could you tell me where you were on the evening of the 17th of this month?" "Yes." "I was here." "I was here from 6:30 until about midnight." "And do you have any witnesses to corroborate?" "How many would you like?" "I can make you out a list if you like." "Well, I´m interested in the hour between 8:30 and 9:30." "Um..." "Alan Thorpe," "David Driscoll, Kenny Lloyd..." "Do you know James Jackson?" "Yes." "In fact, he was here that evening." "You have a very good memory, Mr Parker Jones." "No, not really." "It´s my job to help the social services by keeping a record about the youngsters who come and go here." "Oh, yes, Billy Matthews, he was here as well." "Yes, I had to arrange for him to see a doctor." "We found him in the toilets." "He´s a tragic case." "Only 14, full-blown AIDS." "And I remember that evening," "Jackson was in a particularly aggressive mood." "He´s not a very pleasant character." "He´d been in earlier in the day looking for a boy called Martin Fletcher." " Why was he looking for him?" " I´ve no idea." "Anyway, Martin wasn´t here on the 17th, but he turned up the next day, and a Sergeant..." "Otley spoke with him." "Now, you said Mr Jackson... had been here earlier in the day and then he came back at night?" "What time did he come back?" "Is Jackson a suspect?" "I thought it was an accidental death." "That building´s a firetrap." "The whole block is." "Would you please just answer the question?" "What time did Mr Jackson get back?" "Oh..." "I think he got back about 8:30, stayed for two hours." "Two hours?" "Well, thank you very much, Mr Parker-Jones." " Do you know Vernon Reynolds´ flat?" " Yes." "Vernon´s very well known round here." "He sometimes leaves his front door key at the desk for his friends to pop in." "I´ve always had a good relationship with the Vice Squad." "I take it you´re new." "Yes." "Yes, I am, and I do appreciate your help." "Not at all." "Most of the youngsters that come here are in a terrible state, you know." "They´ve been abused, they´re unloved, with no friends." "There´s not much we can do except keep some kind of contact." "I´m sure you do a very good job." "You do have some very impressive credentials here." "Well, thank you." "Oh, just one more thing." "Do you have any photographs?" " The boys?" " Oh, no, no." "They´re far too expensive." "I meant casual snapshots, like a Christmas party or something." "We know that Connie came here quite a lot, didn´t he?" "He used to, but we haven´t seen him here for about... three months." "Do you know where he had been living for the past couple of months?" "No, I´m afraid not." "He used to leave messages on the board, and he received a few letters from time to time, but not for a while." "Tell you what, I´ll have a word around." "If I hear anything, I´ll let you know." " Thank you very much." " Not at all." "Driscoll... four." "Oh, he´s given me the same names as Jackson." "We´ll have to release him." "Oh, shit!" "At least banged up, he couldn´t scare those kids into not talking to us." "And they can´t find Martin Fletcher." "I made a list of all the jobs and contacts on the notice board." "A lot of young male models required." "The place reads like a tom´s telephone kiosk." " Models?" " Yeah." "That fits in with something that Vera said about Connie, about wanting to be a model." "Very good." "Very good." "May I say that is very positive tie you´re wearing today, Inspector." "Thank you." "Tennison´s got the murder enquiry, partly because it would be more trouble to stop her." "But we want the murder, and only the murder investigated." "Well, there´s nothing else that I´ve heard." "Jackson is still the prime suspect." "Yeah, well, we want Jackson charged." "What we do not want is the investigation broadened." "Is that understood?" "You´d better go and let Sister look at that hand." "Oh, and... thank you." "Right, we will stick to the weekly rota as planned..." "Wake up, James." "...because we have, handling the murder investigation, may I introduce to you DC Lillie," "DS Haskons, DI Hebdon and DI Dalton." "Where is Dalton?" "Anyway, that said, any further information concerning Operation Contract..." " All right." " Cut it out." "Superintendent Halliday´s making this a priority." "Priority." "Look, Larry, can you farm out all the contact numbers from the Advice Centre?" "Excuse me, guv, there was a message from some woman Smithy." " Forget it." " She left her number..." "I don´t believe it." " All right, mate?" "How are you?" " We were at Hornchurch together." "Long time no see." "Keeping fit?" "Still playing for the rugby team?" "Nah." "Did my knee." "Had to have an op." "It´s off the beaten track for you." "I thought you were with Scotland Yard." "Yeah, I was, but I got transferred here." "Listen, I´ll catch up with you in a second." "Um... we´ve traced three of the alibis." "They were all at the centre all evening with Jackson." "I haven´t got Alan Thorpe yet, but I´ve got a list of his hangouts." "Give them to Larry." "He´s giving out the work for tonight." "Oh, incidentally, tonight, look for Martin Fletcher." "I want him brought in." "OK?" "A list of Thorpe´s hangouts." "What´s this, then?" "What are you doing here?" "He got Fairy of the Week at Southampton Row five times on the trot!" "You old poofter!" "Ray Hebdon, Bill Otley." "The skipper." "Jackson was released about 15 minutes ago." " Does she know?" " No." "Right, as from today, we are awarding the Fairy of the Week award." "We´ll be awarding the Prick of the Week award." "You´re not eligible as you´ve been one all along." "Advice Centre... and Vernon Reynolds´ flat." "I timed it." "You could get there and back in less than ten minutes." "So Jackson could easily have done it, but five alibis say that he didn´t." "Well, I reckon we could break down these kids´ statements if we had Jackson banged up." "They´d say he´d visited the Queen Mother if he told them." " He´s got to them." "It´s obvious." " It´s obvious with Martin Fletcher." "I want him brought back in again." "Parker-Jones..." "He´s Jackson´s strongest alibi." "You dig around a bit." "See what you can come up with, on the quiet." "He´s squeaky-clean." "I think your predecessor had a nose round." "Came up with nothing." "Where is that tape?" " You didn´t take a tape, did you?" " No." "Well, I won´t waste time looking for it now." "Let´s call it quits for tonight, get an early start." "Right." "Get him off my back, will you?" "I can´t work with him." "You and I could have got a lot more out of those kids." "One bit him." "I nearly did myself." " What do you?" "What do you think about him?" " Not a lot." "I don´t know why he´s on board." "Do you?" "Good night." " Bill, you didn´t take that tape, did you?" " Why would I do that?" "Yeah." "Can I speak to Dr. Gordon´s secretary, please." "Hello." "It´s Jane Tennison here." "Listen, I´ve got a 6:30 appointment and I´m running a bit late, so um... could I?" "Shit!" "Ah, sorry." "Yeah." "Yes, thank you." "Thank you very much." " Evening, sir." " Evening." "Brian, could I have a word with you?" "Has anyone looked at your hand?" "It´s nothing." "I´ll put a plaster over it." "I don´t know how to tell you this, but..." "Billy Matthews has got full-blown AIDS." "I think you should get to hospital." "The little..." "little bastard!" "I´ll go and see the Sister." "Little shit!" "You do understand what this could mean, don´t you?" "He b..." "He bit me." "He b..." "He broke the skin." "He bit me." "Oh, Jesus..." "Jesus Christ..." "I was bleeding." "I think you should get to the hospital." "You´ll need a tetanus injection anyway." "Do you want someone to come with you?" "Er... it´s OK, really." "I´ve got my own car." "Um... thank you." "I don´t know why we´re going to all this bleeding trouble." "Nasty little queer." "So, have we got an address for him, for Colin/Connie?" "No." "He didn´t have a permanent one." "He must have lived somewhere." "What about a recent photo?" "These are from the children´s home, a few years back." "Black and white." "Not much else." "Was he claiming any benefits?" " Dole?" " No." "Nothing from the DSS." "Hello?" "No, she´s not here." "Is she not in her own office?" "All right, I´ll take it." "Hello?" "No, she´s not here." "Can I take a message?" "Yeah." "Jessica Smithy." "I´ll tell her." "Any vice charges?" "I mean, he was on the game." "Too young to bring charges, wasn´t he?" "1998, picked up, Shipbeck." "I don´t understand, you know what I mean?" "What makes a grown man want to screw some little boy?" "Or little girl, come to think about it?" "Make our job a damn sight easier if we had a recent photo." "Here you go." "Well, I´ll run the tests anyway, but I´m sure it´s nothing." "You work too hard." "You´re run-down." "You need a break." "Can I ask you something?" "If a person has full-blown AIDS and bites someone else, actually draws blood, how dangerous is that?" "Well, that rather depends." "It´s not the fact that the AIDS carrier´s drawn blood, but if his blood then comes in contact with the open wound..." "Often their gums can bleed, so it really rather depends how far advanced the AIDS carrier is." "How soon could it be diagnosed?" " We´re not talking about you, are we?" " No." "It´s a friend of mine." "Well... your friend should be tested for antibody immediately." "That will only prove that he or she doesn´t have it now." "I´m afraid it will take up to six months to prove they´re absolutely clear, so they´re going to need HIV tests for the next four weeks for six months." "It´ll be six months before he knows for sure?" "I´m afraid so." "That´s how long it takes to show a positive HIV infection, and AIDS, well, that could take up to eight to ten years to develop." "OK." "Thanks." "Do you have any leaflets on that I can take?" "Yes, I´ve got some outside." "I´ll get them for you." "These results will be back in a few days." "I´ll give you a call then." " Can I use your phone?" " Yes, go ahead." "The body was discovered an hour ago." "There´s a doctor checking him over." "He´s over there, by that ángel." "PC Kelly to Control." "PC Kelly to Control." "ID check on a Martin Fletcher." "Martin Fletcher, adolescent." " Some bloody guardian, eh?" " Apparent solvent abuse." "Standing by." "Over." "Kid over there with the dog, Jackson´s third witness." "What, that little one?" " Yeah." "Alan..." "Alan Thorpe." "Good." "Go and have a word with him." "Hello, lads." "Good evening." "He says he was too pissed to remember who was at the centre the night Connie died, so that´s one alibi down the spout, innit, eh?" "Right." "Let´s go." "Alan, come here a sec." "Alan!" "Don´t mess me about." "Get here now!" " What was all that about?" " He wanted to know about Connie." "Right." " We´re going for a ride." " What about my mates?" " Can they come?" " No." "Just you and me, all right?" "One of the photographers was busted a few years ago, so he was quite helpful." "Now, he´s mostly porn and girly pics, but he put me onto a Mark Lewis, who specialises in male beauty-style pictures." "Now, I called him, but I got short shrift." "It´s probably better for one of the men to have a go." "If Connie wanted to model, he may have used him." "OK." "Thanks." "Let´s go." "Norma, got any messages?" "Jessica from the newspaper." "She is the most persistent woman I´ve ever met." "She says if you haven´t got time to return her calls, she´ll come and see you, but she won´t tell me what she wants." "Now, listen, the Jackson alibis:" "Alan Thorpe, we know was drunk and on substances, but Billy Matthews, why is there a question mark?" "He doesn´t remember where he was that night." "We need to question him." " OK." " There´s the message." "Thank you." "Martin Fletcher virtually drowned in his own vomit." "His blood alcohol high could have been bottled and he was sniffing." "You know what they said?" "They said if they´d put a match to him, he would have combusted." "You´re done." "Welcome to modern science." "You released Jackson." " That means his alibis pan out?" " Yeah." "We didn´t have enough to hold him." "Which is a pity, because those kids are scared of him." "They´re covering up for him." "We´re going to keep checking their statements, but..." "So Jackson is still the prime suspect?" " Oh, yeah." " And Parker-Jones, you went to see him?" "Yeah." " Why?" "Any reason I shouldn´t have?" " No." "No, no." "And was the interview satisfactory?" "Yeah, he was..." "He was very cooperative, but..." "Do you think it will be necessary to see him again?" "I don´t understand." "Are you telling me not to interview my prime suspect´s main alibi?" "I saw the case board." "You´ve three boys that give Jackson an alibi, so er... stay off Parker-Jones." "Sir, am I in charge of this investigation or not?" "No, I am." "So, now I´m telling you to back off him and stay off him." "If Jackson is your man, then get him." "Concentrate on Jackson, and wrap this case up." " Margaret Speel, please." " One moment, please." " Margaret..." " Yeah?" " Is it Martin Fletcher again?" " No." "No, he´s dead." "He died last night." "Drug abuse." "Oh, no." "He left my station in your custody the night before." "My custody?" "Is that what you call it?" "I was called to your station and kept waiting for hours." " I was there to observe Martin´s emotional- - ...and physical welfare." "I do know the law." "I had no legal rights over Martin Fletcher." "All I could do was try and find him some decent accommodation for one night." "Um... do you know Billy Matthews?" "Yes." "Is there any way you can get him off the streets?" " What do you mean, get him off the streets?" " He´s got full-blown AIDS." "Really?" "Where do you want me to put him?" "You know one boy with full-blown AIDS and you want him off the streets." "Where do I put him?" "With the rest?" "Do you know where they all are?" "Do you know how many there are?" "Look," "I suggest you contact Edward Parker-Jones at the Advice Centre." "If Billy´s there, then I can try and do something for him." "What do you think of Edward Parker-Jones?" "He deserves a medal." "Do you know, it costs £1,500 a week... to keep really young offenders in an institution, and more staff than you could possibly imagine." "Did you know Connie?" "Colin Jenkins?" "No." "James Jackson?" "Yes, I know of him, but I´ve never had any professional dealings with him." "OK." "Thanks." "Thanks." "If you can give an idea of the time he came to me, you can go through all the portfolios." "No, I don´t know him." "What, sometime last year?" "Do you keep records of clients, dates of sessions?" "Some don´t like to use their real names." "I am strictly cash upfront and cash on delivery, and I pay VAT and taxes." "I run this as a legitimate business." "I just take the photographs." "If it´s for a publication, then I charge so and so." "If it´s for a private collector, then it is between myself and the client." "Help yourselves." "I´ll be in the darkroom." "I mean, if I remember correctly, you said that the Advice Centre had been targeted before I came on board." " Now, did that include Edward Parker-Jones?" " Not the man." "It was more his boys." "It´s where they congregate." "It´s one of the first ports of call for young kids." "And it was sort of inferred that you should all stay clear of it?" "Larry, if I have to instigate a full-scale swoop, that means, kids, toms, pimps, punters, close down clubs, coffee bars, and I´m under great pressure to do that." "Edward Parker-Jones´s name keeps coming up." "Is this off the record?" "Of course." "The Chief Inspector before you got warned off." "Parker-Jones is a very influential man." "He´s got friends in high places, so we sort of backed off him." "And this came from the guv´nor?" " Yeah." " OK..." "And then Operation Contract got the green light for the cleanup?" "Yeah." "As you know, that was a complete waste of time." "Chief Inspector Lyall was out." "I think he´s in Manchester now." "I still don´t think there´s anything subversive going on, but..." " There was a leak?" " Yeah." "I mean, someone must have tipped off the punters, let alone the clubs." "Again, off the record, I think we got close to someone with some heavy-duty contacts." "Who do you think that might be?" "No possible names?" "No." "If I had, I´d tell you." "Good morning." "Can I speak to a Chief Inspector David Lyall, please?" "OK, so I´ve got that." "Are you sure it´s Mark Lewis?" "It´s personal." "Could you say it´s Sergeant Bill Otley, Vice Squad." "Soho." "Yeah." "I´ll hold." "Thank you." "I´ve got him coming on the line now." " I´ll take it on line three." " Sarge..." " Listen, mate, I need a favour." " Sarge?" "Remember you thought you´d got something on a bloke?" "Sarge, Kath´s just got a call from one of the photographers." " He´s certain the guy we want is Mark Lewis." " Hang on a second." "Check the bloody board!" "Go on." " Who´s he talking to?" " The chief inspector before Tennison." "No doubt he´s giving it a bit of..." "Mark Lewis." "Yes, they are with him this morning." "Sarge, did you know he´s on the list from the Advice Centre?" "Well, bloody contact them, dearie." "Sorry about that, Dave." "Look, can you fax me what you sniffed out?" "Yeah?" "Oh, hang on." "Well, what was your little private confab about, then?" "Come off it, Bill." "That´s my phone." "Is it for me?" "No, it´s personal." "Go and check with Kath." "I think she´s got a tip-off." "Yeah." "As a favour?" "We´re sniffing around Parker-Jones again." "Oh, this is a waste of time." "I don´t know what we´re doing here." "If he did a bit of modelling, so what?" "Can you see a phone?" " Mr Lewis, can I use your phone?" " Help yourself." "Can´t come out." "I´m working on some negs." "Phone´s by the door." "Look at him." "Look." "Thanks, Mr Lewis." "That was Kathy." "Tip-off." "If there´s anyone doing the real heavy stuff, this is our man." "Hey, we´ve no search warrant." "He is messing us about." "He never said anything about this lot." "Adam and Adam." "It´s original." "Mr Lewis, we need to talk to you." " What´s this?" " No, don´t!" "It´s acid." "It´ll burn your hand." "Parker-Jones is thought of as the Mother Teresa of Soho, and he´s Jackson´s alibi, and, you know, there´s something else that doesn´t quite fit here." "If Jackson was after for Connie for money, why not take it when he found him?" "We got Mark Lewis, and we´re getting a video room to view Connie´s tapes." "OK, you go ahead." "DCI Tennison." "Oh, yeah, Dr Gordon." "Ah... is it the tests?" "Yeah, sure, I´ll come in." "Just tell me when." "OK." "Thank you." "You wanted DCI LyalI´s contact number." "It´s in Manchester." "Actually, I think Sergeant Otley was..." "Are you all right?" "You didn´t put this in my desk, did you?" "It´s the ambulance call out tape." "No." " Er... you haven´t got a cigarette, have you?" " No." "Sorry." "I´ve given up, actually." "I last saw him three, maybe four days before the fire." "He wanted some photographs." "Not explicit ones, just some head and shoulders." " And?" " He never showed up." "Look, I was only destroying them because I know he´s dead." " I just didn´t want to be involved." " Did he say why he wanted the photographs?" "DCI Tennison has just entered the room." "I assume Connie was trying to get some legit model work." " OK." "Cheers, mate." " He was a very good-looking boy... quite a star." "When he came to you on the other occasions, when these were taken, did he commissión them or did somebody else?" "Those?" "He paid for them." "I suppose he was going to look for work on spec." " Did you ever see Connie with anybody else?" " Apart from the other models?" " Yes." "Did you ever see Conie with anybody?" " No." "So he always came to the studio alone, yeah?" "Yes." "Apart from the other people in the sessión, he was always alone." "We know what business you´re really in." "So, did you ever see Connie with anyone else?" "No." "He was always by himself." " He was very beautiful, very special." " We know about the pornographic videos!" "With underage kids." "With children." "So, now, did you ever see Connie with anybody else?" "Someone was with him once." "I´ve no idea who it was, but he paid for the film." "Just sat watching." "I´m going back a year, maybe 18 months." " How much did this film cost?" " £2,000." " Describe him." " Who?" "The man with Connie." "Describe him." "How old?" "Oh, well, he´d be about late 50s, maybe older." "Grey-haired, grey..." "Well, grey all over, really." "Pinstripe suit." "Smart." "Carried a briefcase." " How did he pay?" "Cheque or cash?" " Cash." "He had the cash in the briefcase." " He waived his right." " Has he made his call?" "Yeah." "Was he in the videos..." " ... this grey-haired man?" " Well, not physically." " What´s that supposed to mean?" " He told me what he wanted Connie to do." " Have we got that video?" " Oh, no." "That one never had a copy made." "Took it out of the camera." "All the others came later." "Connie got a bit of a taste for it." "Got an address for him?" "Phone number?" " Would you answer the question out loud?" " No, I don´t know where he lives." "Lived." "Connie is dead." "Remember?" "So, how did you contact him, then?" "We´ve a stack of your videos starring Connie, and you want us to believe you had no way of contacting him?" "Mark, you´re getting in deeper." "You´ve just admitted you filmed Connie 18 months ago." " Still a minor." " I didn´t know how old he was." " He told me he was 18." " So, how did you contact him?" "I´d leave a message and he´d call me." "Look, I never knew where he lived." "I swear." "So, if somebody sees someone they fancy in one of your films, and they want to get in touch with them, they do it through you, do they?" " Yes." " And then what happens?" "I go round to the Advice Centre and stick a note up for him." "Do you get paid for carrying these messages backwards and forwards, then?" "No." "No, I did not get paid." " So you did it as an act of kindness?" " Yes." "Do you know Edward Parker-Jones?" "He runs the Advice Centre." "He wouldn´t approve, you know." "Very straight." "So, why do you think Colin Jenkins was murdered?" "I don´t know." "Mr Lewis, you have been read your rights, and you said that you did not require any legal representation." "I want a list of his clients´ names." "Hack into his computer if he´s got one." "Dalton should be able to deal with that." "I want VAT payments, I want bank statements." "Let´s throw the lot at that seedy little bastard." "Do over his place tonight." " Undo your trousers..." " What are we watching, then?" "Magic Roundabout." " But, sir..." " Just do as he says." "Bend over." "That´s lovely!" "I´m glad my kids are girls." "You should see what they do to the girls." "There you go." "Oh, that´s lovely." "Sir, could you listen to the Mark Lewis tapes for me?" "I think you might be able to help me with them." "Mm-hm." "Sure." "Obviously, we don´t want any of these to go walkabout." "Right." "OK, Norma, what else have you got for us?" "Hi My name´s Conie... and I´m 16 years old..." "I´m sorry I´ll start again." "I think we´d better get Billy Matthews back in again." "This is stupid Billy keeps pulling faces at me." "Hello." "My name´s Conie and I´m 16 years old." "I like going out." "Hello." "Hey, what´s that bruise on your face?" "I fell over." "Have any of you lot seen Billy Matthews?" "Alan?" "Kathy!" "Coming." " Oh, God..." " Excuse me." "Right, radio in for an ambulance." "Norma!" "This is WPC Norma Hastings." "I need an ambulance." "Chief Inspector Tennison, I´m Jessica Smithy." "I need to talk to you." " What´s he taking photos for?" " Go back in the car." "Here´s my card." " Oh, God, no!" " You´re not interested, are you?" "Why?" "Because he was homeless?" "A rent boy?" "Doesn´t he warrant a full investigation?" "You´re the officer who brought George Marlow to trial." "I´m writing an article on the boy that died in the fire, Colin Jenkins." "I met him a few times." "We want pictures." " ." "He offered me an exclusive." " We don´t have any pictures." " They must have some of when they found him." " Did you say you met him?" " How many times did you meet him?" " I met him a couple of times." "I´m willing to discuss my entire interaction with him." "You said an exclusive." "Are you saying he was selling his story to the papers?" "He was prepared to name his clients, including a high-ranking police officer." " Did you record your interview with him?" " Yes, and I´m willing to let you hear them." " But I want an exclusive interview with you." " Oh, no, Miss Smithy, I want to interview you." "I want you in my office in an hour, and I want you to bring those Colin Jenkins tapes with you." "I´ll be there." "I´ve been trying hard enough to get you." "Thank you, Inspector." "Detective Chief Inspector." "Nothing in the darkroom." "Sickens me." "Will you be here much longer?" "I want to go out." "I do the next block, you know." "Oh, hey, do you want the keys?" "We need you to stay." "I´m sorry." "The blokes that were here last night didnae stay as long." " Somebody was here last night?" " Aye." "Took away a whole load of stuff." "Police." "If I´d known I was having so many visitors, I´d have waxed my legs." "You could help us." "Where´s his diary, address book?" "What about tax forms, VAT forms?" "I don´t know, unless they took it all." "Who?" "They said they were police, and that Mark was being held in custody." "Nobody even asked me about him, you know." "Connie." "Oh, he was a sweet kid." "Not all the time." "He was quite an operator." "But then, he had the equipment." "He wanted to be a film star." "Oh, there´s a lot of famous stars, pay to have their past kept secret." "That´s life." "Whatever you do catches up on you." "Tasteless slippers, aren´t they?" "Mark Lewis´s flat and studio were cleaned out, and supposedly by police officers." " I´ll look into it." " I hope you will, because this stinks!" "I said I´ll look into it." "We have to abide by the rules." "We have to get the warrants issued." "There isn´t one single scrap of paper with his name on it or any of his clients´ names." "Chief Inspector, check your transcripts of the Mark Lewis interview." "He was allowed to make a phone call." "Maybe he got someone to clear his place out and it had nothing to do with delays in issuing bloody warrants." "Don´t go casting aspersions around, or they´ll come down on your head." "We´re just as keen to get a result as you are." "May I remind you that you inferred that an arrest would be imminent?" "How much longer do you require four extra officers to assist you?" "Look, I didn´t ask for them." "I can´t put a time on it." "You saw those videos, those kids." "Well, I might have a breakthrough." "There´s this journalist." "Apparently, she knew the victim." "He was selling his story." "He was going to name his clients." "She´s tape-recorded an interview with him." "I haven´t spoken to her yet, but she should be here any minute now." "What´s the journalist´s name?" "Jessica Smithy." "Thank you, Chief Inspector." "Whose idea was it to bring her here?" "Bloody loose cannon now!" "Well, we can´t tell her to back off, not with this journalist." "Get those tapes." "If there´s anything incriminating on them, we can retain them." "Give her 24 hours." "If she´s not charged Jackson, she´s off the case." "Get Dalton on that journalist woman." "Am I going to be kept waiting much longer?" "She asked me to be here by nine." "Chief Inspector Tennison´s caught up right now." "She´ll see you as soon as she´s free." "I told you not to do that I said I would contact you." "Look we´ve first got to agree on what you´ll pay me." "Mark Lewis called the Advice Centre." "He refused to say who he spoke to, just that he wanted his cards taken down." "You´re late." "Right, these are the Colin Jenkins, Jessica Smithy interview tapes." "She says that Connie was going to sell his story to the paper, naming, one; a high-ranking police officer, two; a member of parliament." "So, if any names come up on this tape, they are going to stay here, in this office, amongst us, because we are opening one very big can of worms." "We´re going to need hard evidence to back it up." "Excuse the pun." "Without first giving a bit of information..." " Who brought this in?" " Shh!" "Just saying you know the names isn´t good enough." "What if all this is a lie just to get money out of my paper?" "I told you I had names." "Very important people High-up people." " An MP a police officer" " It has to go to my editor Conie." "I have to sell him the story too you know." "Well I want big money... cos if they found out I was doing this then they´d kill me." "There´s a guy called Jimmy Jackson He´s real crazy." " I want at least 20 thousand." " Is there anywhere else I can?" "Get that dialogue transcribed." "See if the boys can clear off that background noise." " I want names, and as fast as possible." " Yeah." "Bill, keep tabs on Jackson." "If he knew about those tapes, he wasn´t after any money." "Sorry I was late." "I had to go back for the blood tests." "It´s going to take about a week." "util then, I´ll just have to wait." " Are you all right?" " Yeah." " If you´re not, you can always come to me." " No, I am." "I´m fine." "Thanks." "Do you mind if I sit in on the Jessica Smithy interview?" "Sure." "I had two meetings with him." "We met once on the 10th, at Mr Dickie´s in Covent Garden, and then on the 14th at the Karaoke K bar." " So, when did you first contact him?" " He called the office." "I see, so if anybody says they have a story, you rush off and meet them in Covent Garden?" "You get to have a feel for a story." "Intuition." "Oh, you had a feel for this one, did you?" "I don´t understand your attitude, unless you don´t want an investigation into his death." "What´s that supposed to mean?" "If Connie told the truth, it would make sense." "Why?" "What did he tell you?" "That one of his clients is a high-ranking officer in the Metropolitan Police force." "He told you that?" " Look, have you tried the patches?" " What?" "You know, for smoking?" "They do work." "So, you had two meetings with Colin Jenkins, and on both occasions, you recorded the entire interaction between the two of you?" "Yes." "The first time, he contacted you through your office." " How did you get in touch again?" " I left a message at an Advice Centre." "I even went down there." "It´s the one in Soho." " What date was that?" " I knew it was a hangout for rent boys." "It would have been the 12th of this month, at 3:15." "PM, not AM." " Now, did you speak to anybody else?" " Bloody unbelievable!" "No, I did not." "I didn´t interview anybody." "Yeah, but did you speak to anybody else?" "Edward Parker-Jones." "He runs the centre." " What did you tell him?" " I didn´t tell him anything." "I just asked if he knew where I could contact Colin Jenkins." " Did he know who you were?" " Look, I´m a journalist, OK?" " Sometimes, I have to..." " Lie?" "No." "He presumed I was a social worker, and he was very helpful." "But somebody must have told him who I was, because he asked me to leave." "If I had wanted to interview the kids, he wouldn´t have let me." "So, Edward Parker-Jones knew that you, a journalist, was looking for Colin Jenkins?" "Yes." "So, now what?" "Why aren´t you trying to find out which MP, which police officer used him, killed him?" " He was murdered, wasn´t he?" " Did you speak to anybody else?" " A cleaning lady?" " I didn´t speak to anybody." "Parker-Jones wouldn´t let me!" "He asked me to leave." "Guv..." "Yeah?" "Sit down, please, Miss Smithy." "Oh, just one more thing, how much did you pay Colin Jenkins?" "I didn´t." "That´s why I was looking for him." "My editor had given me some money." " How much?" " A few hundred." " It´s no concern of yours." " Exactly how much was it, Miss Smithy?" "Look, I can call your editor, you know." "Five hundred." "And did you meet Colin Jenkins, give him this money?" "No, I did not." "We will be retaining the tapes of your meetings with Colin Jenkins as evidence." "You´ll be asked to sign a legal document which bars you from using any information..." "What?" "This is crazy!" "You cannot stop me from printing!" "We just did." " Anything?" " Yes." "Parker-Jones knew that Jessica Smithy was a journalist and knew that she was looking for Connie." "I think she´s lying too." "She had 500 quid to spend, the same amount as we found on his body." " I think she paid him." " We should check Parker-Jones´ credentials." "Already done it." "Malory uiversity, Chicago." "Doesn´t exist." "The rest of it´s a load of cobblers." "I think we´re getting somewhere." "We´ve got a motive." "For Jackson?" "Ah, yeah." "Yeah." "Now, listen, until I get back, I want you to keep pressure on those kids´ alibis." "OK?" " Do you want me to come with you?" " What, to my doctor´s?" "No, thank you." "Oh, Halliday wants a transcript of those Jessica Smithy tapes, but I don´t want anyone to get their hands on them till I see them first." "OK?" "See you later." "Well, we shall have to run a test." "Your blood pressure´s a bit up, and at your age, you need to be careful." "So, no more smoking, no more drinking." " Are you positive about this?" " Oh, yes." "I think so." "You´re pregnant." "Just." "Saturday afternoon, this bloke´s in town doing his shopping." "Suddenly he starts screaming and shouting." ""I am sick of people in this town calling me a sheepshagger! "" ""Listen, I deliver milk to the local school - nobody calls me the milk giver." "I give clothes to the jumble sale - nobody calls me the clothes giver." "I help at the local community centre - nobody calls me the community worker." "I shag one sheep... "" "It´s brilliant, it´s brilliant." "Yeah." "I´ve just heard - we didn´t get anything off the Smithy tapes." "This just came through." "I´ve been doing a bit of digging after a tip-off." "1979- a Mr Edward Parker was accused of molesting a boy in his care when he ran a home for kids in Manchester." "Case dismissed." "Lack of evidence." "Anthony Field." "1986- indecent assault on a minor." "Case dismissed." "Same Mr Edward Parker again, this time running the Calloway Centre in Cardiff, another home for kids." "Jason Baldwin." "You´re saying this Edward Parker´s the same..." "Could be Edward Parker-Jones." "I´ve got the addresses of the two kids." "I´d be up in Manchester and back by tonight." " Manchester?" " Yeah." "Cross over to Cardiff." "Nice to get something on Parker-Jones, eh?" " Dig a bit of dirt." " Yeah." "I´ll do it, I´ll go." "You?" "I thought you´d wanna be here." "No." "Give me a chance to talk to Dalton." "Er, Richard, can I have a word with you?" "I don´t bloody believe this." "I do all the legwork and she gets a day away." "Didn´t have time this morning to do a briefing, so let´s do it now and then crack on." "We know that Jackson would have taken about ten minutes from the Advice Centre to Vernon Reynolds´ flat and back." "There are two possible routes." "Richard, get a team together, blanket the area." " Any news on Jackson?" " No, we haven´t found him yet." "That´s brilliant." "Go to his old hunting ground, stations" "That´s where you picked him up first." "We´ve got a good motive now for Connie´s murder... and we all know that it wasn´t robbery." "What are you muttering about, Bill?" "I was just saying it´s a pity about the Smithy tapes." "They´re useless." "Connie never named anyone, guv, apart from Jackson." "Just some clubs where he met his clients." "Er, yeah." "No addresses as yet." "But the clubs are Bowery Roof," "Lola´s, Judy´s, and something that sounded like Puddles." "Poodles." "It´s called Poodles." "The other two are gay bars." "But the Bowery Roof is a very exclusive place." "Lots of drag acts, transsexuals, transvestites." "Most members are city types." "Professionals." "You´re a bit well-informed." "I only just got these." "I´m a member." "Are you joking, Ray?" " That´s not funny." " I know it isn´t." "I´m gay." "You took your time in telling us." "I mean, I know it´s your own private business..." " I´ll leave the team if that´s what you want." " No, wait a minute." "No." "Sit down." "Which of those clubs do you think are most likely to be frequented by..." " Judges, MPs?" "...police officers?" "The Bowery." " You well-known there?" " No." "It´s very expensive." "I´ve only been twice." "But I do know one thing." "Asking questions with the others in tow - never get past the front door and word would leak." "You´d never even get to the top brass, let alone ask them questions." "What about access to membership lists?" " No chance." " Shit." "Most of them use false names or coded names." "Even though what they´re doing is perfectly legal." "But if they are going with underage kids, that ups the ante even further on covering up." "So who they are would be really hush-hush." "I mean, they´ve really got to protect themselves." "One hint of a leak and they´ll close ranks." "uless..." "We could get the lads to drag up." "Go in that way." " Nobody pays any attention to them." " Oh, yeah, right!" "I´d pay to see that." "Go and get some lunch." "Oh, and tell Dalton to get his skates on, will you?" " We´ve got a train to catch." " Sure." "Thanks, Ray." "Only one name off the Smithy tapes." " But it´s your man." "It´s Jackson." " I know." "Lets you off the hook, doesn´t it?" "Just a joke." "Look, Jack, it may not be the time to talk about this, but it´s gotta be obvious to you that this case, it´s opening right up." "It´s treading on Operation Contract´s heels." "It´s my honest opinion that we should just cut our losses and concentrate on the murder investigation, because..." "I´m getting information that goes a whole lot deeper than a clean-up of street kids." "I think Colin Jenkins was murdered to silence him because he was about to name the men involved in a paedophile ring." "And you think Parker-Jones is involved." "Well, he´s being very helpful, very co-operative." "I don´t have a shred of evidence to link him with any paedophile ring, but... the Advice Centre, along with a number of other venues..." "And what about Jackson?" "I think that he murdered Colin Jenkins." " But..." " But?" "It´s uh..." "It´s nothing." "You´d better reel in Jackson, then." "You have a very impressive career." "Don´t blow it." "Charge Jackson and bury everything else." "You´ve not said anything, Bill." "What do you think?" "What, about him?" "Don´t worry me." "We had one at Southampton Row." "He didn´t last long." " See you in the pub, then." " Yeah." " Is it true?" " What?" "That I´m gay?" "I just don´t believe in this day and age everybody´s making such a big deal of it." "What are you looking at me like that for?" "I just don´t understand." " I thought I knew you." " You do." " Why?" " Are you asking me why I´m gay?" "It´s the way I am." "Always have been." "Queer?" "Yeah." "Queer." "I´m gay." "I don´t apologise for it." "Look at you." "The other two will come out with infantile, puerile cracks from now on." "I just don´t believe it." " Do you live with a bloke?" " Do you?" " Of course I bloody don´t." " What difference does it make?" "My private life is just that." "I don´t poke my nose in yours." "What gives you the right to ask about mine?" "Because I work with you!" "As a matter of fact..." "I do live with somebody." "And I´m very happy... thank you." "Listen, I was gay before I met you." "Didn´t start touching you up, or propositioning you, did I?" "I respect you." "Why don´t you respect me?" "Now back off." " Manchester." "There´s a coincidence." " Is there?" "It´s just I was supposed to meet a friend from there just now." "Give you a lift, yeah?" "I´m in a car." "Come on." "Hello?" "It´s Tennison." "I´m at Euston on my way to Manchester." "Yeah, then Cardiff." "Listen, I want a car followed." "A dark blue Mercedes." "Old four-door saloon." "Yeah, I´ll get the number to you." "The suspect´s name is James Jackson." "OK?" "I want him tailed but not apprehended." "Get Otley and Hall on it." "It´s Larry Hall." "Put me through to Vice." "We´re outside Jackson´s house now." "Kathy, anything on the house in Langley Road yet?" "Look, I will call you back as soon as I´ve got anything, all right?" "Right." " Shit." " What?" "Billy Matthews." "Madam wants him requestioned about the Connie video." "It´s all very well her saying arrest him, but we´ve been doing that for the past year." "He´s only had four court appearances already." "Charing Cross Hospital." "Emergency Ward." "Yes, got it." "Edward Jones." "Property owned by an Edward Jones." "First floor" " Margaret Fuller." "Second..." "Basement" " Abdul... unpronounceable." "God, it´s flatlets." "Brilliant." " Guess what?" " What?" "Billy Matthews discharged himself an hour after we left him there." "Do you know where I can get my batteries recharged?" "Hello?" "Hello-o-o?" " Hello-o-o?" " Guv." "Just a minute." "Hello?" "Can you hear me?" "Hello?" "... phone." "Hello?" "Oh, hello." "Listen, you can gain entry even on suspición that a minor is being held there." "Well, I´m reporting it, OK?" "It isn´t about the bank, is it?" "Only Anthony´s sure to be made assistant manager and I just wondered..." "Sorry to keep you waiting." "Only just got in." " Is the kettle on, Ma?" " Yes, yes." "When it whistles, I´ll hear it, if you want to go and listen to your programme." "Well, I..." "Sorry." "I got cold feet as you were late." "Sorry about that." "We don´t need a warrant." "We´ve reason to believe you´re holding a minor." "You were seen leaving Euston." "Bullshit." "I know my rights, now piss off." "You´ve got no warrant." "You´re on private property." "I have, as a citizen, a right to defend my property." "Now piss off." " Are you Mrs Margaret Fuller?" " Yes." "Is this the juvenile I´m supposed to have prisoner?" "Anybody up there?" "This is the police!" "Leave him alone." "I just wanna see the kid´s all right." " I´ll break his arms." " She´s up here." "Get out of here!" "You´re dead, Vera!" "And this is my er..." "My dad and my little sister." "They were killed in a car crash when I was five." "And after that, Mum had a nervous breakdown." "That´s why I was sent to the home." "Anthony, can you tell me about the court case?" "Look, I know how difficult it is." "Really?" "I need to know about the man who ran the home." "You see, it´s my belief that he´s still..." "At it?" "Mm." "His um..." "His name was Edward Parker." "My case never even got to court." "Jesus." "I´ve called an ambulance." "The other kid´s being taken in now." " Vera wants to go." " I´m doing a club tonight." "Can I go?" "I´m doing the cabaret." "You won´t get any sense out of him." " He´ll tell you anything just to stay here." " I´m OK, I´m OK." "You´re not OK, Billy, love." "You´re not OK at all." "Can I go?" " Where´s that bloody ambulance?" " They said there´d be a 15- minute delay." " Don´t leave me." " It´s all right, Billy, lad." "He had a special nickname for me" "He said that whenever he used that special name it was a code." "That was when he wanted me to go to his room." "And how long did this abuse go on for..." "before you told anyone?" "Three years." "There was no-one to tell." "He always said that... if I told anyone I would have to eat my own faeces." "I got a letter from my mother." "She said she was much better." "So..." "I ran away." "I went to the police station... and er... they called in a social worker." "A woman." "I had to tell her." "It was very embarrassing." "How old were you then?" "Eight, nearly nine." "They took my statement and then er a plain-clothes police officer came into the room to question me." "Anthony, I really appreciate you telling us all this." "Can you go on?" "Thank you." "This um... police officer " "I never knew his name - he er, he asked me if I if I knew what happened to little boys that tell lies." "And then I said I was not telling lies." "And he said er well, we will soon know." "And um um he er... he undid my pants... and er..." "And he did it to me." "He said that um... that if I told anyone, I would go to prison." "This police officer penetrated you?" "Mm." " At the police station?" " Mm-hm." "Was anyone else present?" "So..." "I said that I was, that I had been, telling lies." "Case dismissed." "They er... they sent me back to the home." "I was there for another two years." "Mm." "I sincerely believe the man who assaulted you..." "I´m not interested in what you believe." "I´m only interested in my life and my career." "Whatever happens to him now is no longer my concern." "I refuse to let him destroy my life." " But you´ll let him destroy others." " No." "You let him." "I don´t care about anyone else." "If where was a court case - if - then I´d be forced to relive what that bastard did to me... again." "I only agreed to see you on condition that you didn´t want me to go to court." "I won´t testify." "And you can´t make me." "So I told Halliday this morning." "I said, "We should just put Operation Contract quietly to bed. "" "You worked on it for six months, didn´t you?" "I worked on it for six months." "Doing surveillance on all the areas we targeted." "Right." "On the night earmarked for the big swoop, Friday, we got less than we would have done on a wet Tuesday afternoon." "Listen, did you target Edward Parker-Jones?" "Why do you ask that?" "I know you sent those faxes to Otley about the case." "One in Manchester, the other in Cardiff." "Look, I´m going to be totally honest with you." "I Xeroxed these before I left, just more or less to protect myself in case there was any shit." "Dig in to these." "I think they go away back." "Maybe before me." "Chiswick´s the grand puppet master." " Fancy a whisky upstairs?" " I´d love one." " Ah." " Um..." "Toothbrush, toothpaste and er..." "I thought you might need that." "It´s make-up remover." "Aw." "Thank you." "That´s very thoughtful." "How much do I owe you?" "Receipt´s in the bag." "This is Detective Chief Inspector David Lyall." "David, this is Brian Dalton." "Detective Inspector Dalton." " Pleased to meet you." " Likewise." " So, is your room OK?" " Yeah, room´s fine." "Good." "OK." "Well, I´ll see you tomorrow." "Early." "OK?" " Night." " Yeah, OK." " Didn´t expect to stay the night." " There you go." " Cheers." " Cheers." "I hear very good things about you." "You´re not scared off anything." "Well, I am." "There´s gonna be lots of us demoted in our rank and I know there´s a superintendent vacancy coming up, so you take these." "I´m sorry, but I´m looking out for my future." "This Sheehy inquiry has really put the flutter around." "The only ones safe will be those with 30 years´ experience... and I don´t fancy being demoted." "I worked hard enough for the DCI rank as it is." "So there was a leak." "Tell me, what do you think of Bill Otley?" "Good man." "One of the old school." "Hard worker." " Did he tell you that?" " About the leak?" "Yeah." "Well, I reckon I´ve done my favour." " Good luck to you." " Thanks, David." "Where is that vacancy?" "It´s one of the AMIT areas." "Everybody can´t go up but I´m going to give it my best shot." "Good night, love." " Good luck." " Thank you." "My wife´s not gonna believe this." " I told her I was off duty." " It´s that film, innit?" "Some Like It Hot." "Tony Curtis and?" "Jack Lemmon." "It was dreadful." "Silly walks." "They´d never have got away with it." "Anybody could see they weren´t female." "That wasn´t the point though." "It was a comedy." "Well, for some, dear, being in drag is the only time they feel right." "It is not funny at all... is it?" "I wouldn´t know." " How much did they set you back?" " A lot." "Red´s here now." "I´ve not got much time before I go on, so let´s make it snappy." "One at a time." "I don´t know if I can get you in the back bar." "It´s jammed in there." " Maybe you can work it yourselves?" "...a great favourite!" "A truly beautiful and talented act." "Please welcome Miss Vera Reynolds!" "# I wanna be loved by you" "# Just you" "# Nobody else but you..." "Come on, let´s mingle." "#..." "loved by you alone" "# Boo-boop-bee-doo" "# I wanna be kissed by you" "# Just you" "# Nobody else but you..." " Are you crazy?" "Why?" "Why did you do it?" " Because they asked me to." "I´m out of here." "If you´d got any sense, you´d leave too." " You´ve got another spot." " You do it." " I haven´t done my own yet." " They stick out like sore thumbs." "They don´t." " They´re asking everyone bloody questions!" " I want to help." "I thought you cared about Connie." "Somebody killed him." "You know it, I know it." " You might be able to stomach what goes on..." " Me?" "You live with that slimebag, Mark Lewis, not me." "I´ve never been involved in it all, never..." "But you are involved, aren´t you?" "You lied to me." "I covered up for you, but all this stuff with the kids and Jackson." "I´m shacking up at his place because I´ve got nowhere else to go." "He won´t leave me alone till this blows over." "Now you´ve got the cops in here." "He´ll think I done it." "Not you, me." "Red, those two queens of yours..." " You´ve got another spot, Vera." " I´ll do it." "Christ." "Those two queens of yours - I´ve had a complaint." "They´ll have to go." "All right." "I´ll come clean." "I don´t know ´em." "They latched on to me at Lola´s club." "They gave me a few quid to get ´em in." "It´s the truth, I swear before God." "Now, can I have a bit of privacy?" "My tits need readjusting." "Hey, Vera!" "I bloody protected you, you slag!" "And you bring the filth into my house!" " Why did you do that, then, Vera?" " It wasn´t me." "I swear before God, Jimmy, it wasn´t me." "I wouldn´t, would I?" " What?" " I need you." "Why would I tip off the law about you?" "Who is it to do with, then, eh?" "Is it Red?" "How much does he know?" "Eh?" "Where´s Red?" "I don´t know." "He´s not on tonight." "He had a cold." "He´s staying at Mark Lewis´s." "It´s the truth, Jimmy, honestly." "That´s how he knows everything." "?" "Techno" "Bloody thing." "?" "Techno" " Where the bloody hell were you?" " I was over there!" " Why didn´t you call out?" " Have you got any handcuffs?" "Oh, take a wild guess." "Skipper, it´s about Billy Matthews." " Is he dead?" " No, no, no." "He´s got a bronchial infection." "He´s in Charing Cross Hospital." "They won´t treat him cos he keeps discharging himself." "He discharged himself last night and he discharged himself on the 17th." " 17th." "The night Connie died, right?" " Yeah." "Discharged himself." "So he couldn´t have been at the centre." " Exactly." " Yeah, yeah, lovely." "Parker-Jones is very specific about that, Billy." "Alan Thorpe - he was too pissed to remember." "We find those other two lads, Jackson´s screwed, right?" " Fancy a hamburger?" " No, no." "I´m knackered." " Came off hours ago." " On your bike." "See you tomorrow." "All right." "I reckon he got a backhander." "You know Billy Matthews?" "Well, when he first come up he was, what, ten?" "Connie nabbed Billy fast, didn´t he?" "Do you think Connie was paid for finding young kids, then?" " For the films, like." " They´re all perverts." "Big posh houses, lot of dough." "Dirty bastards." " You scruffy buggers didn´t go to posh houses." " Yeah." "Yeah." "Do you two want to drive around in the panda, show me that posh house?" "Tenner in it for you." "OK." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on, this is the fifth road." "Is it here or what?" "That´s the one." "Has it got stone animals outside the gates?" "Connie said they were lions." "Good lad." "Remember anything else?" "I think the lad´s pulling your leg, sarge." "This is Assistant Deputy Commissioner Kennington´s home." "Drive on." " You said Jason was known to the locals." " He´s more than known." "He spends more time in the cells than out." "He´s a nice enough bloke when he´s sober, but he´s a nightmare when he´s not." "He´s been had up for assault, petty crimes." "Has a lot of marital troubles." "She´s always calling us in but then withdraws the charges." "Well, the bad news isn´t even worth discussing." "Haskons and Lillie got dragged up." " What?" " Don´t even ask." "The good news is they brought in Jackson." " Are you serious?" "They got dragged up?" " I said I don´t wanna talk about it." "But there´s another alibi down." "Driscoll." "He´s admitted that he lied because Jackson threatened to beat him up." "What number is it?" "WPC: 63. 5th floor." "You´re from Liverpool right?" "Yeah." "And um... how old were you when you first went into the home?" " Which one?" " The one run by Edward Parker-Jones." "Ten." "I was sent there from a foster home." "I got into a bit of thieving, so they got shot of me." "Are you prepared to act as a witness for the prosecution?" "Sure." "Thanks." "Can you tell me when the sexual abuse started?" "It was um... the second or third day I was there." "Parker just called us into his office and um..." "That was it." "It started then." "Like you could do or say anything about it." "It was like he was... a law unto himself, you know." "And it wasn´t just me." "He was having us all." "He´d give you a certain amount of fags." "Like, it was five for a blow job." "You knew when one of the lads had gone all the way with him - they was flush with fags." " Have you got one by the way?" " Oh, yeah, sure." "Here." "Keep the pack." "I´m trying to give up." "What made you report him?" "Short-changed us on some fags, didn´t he?" "So I thought... "Screw him. "" "Went to the social worker." "Bitch." "She fancied him, you know." "He used to get it off with women as well." "Anyway, she went on and on at me." "Did I know what I was saying?" "What it meant?" "I said, "Yeah, I know what it means to me. "" "If you don´t do something about it, I´m going to the cops." " And how old were you then?" " Dunno. 12, 13." "And did you go to the cops?" "Yeah." "Well, he wouldn´t leave us alone, would he?" "She wasn´t going to do anything about it, so..." "I went to the police station." "Made a statement." "They were all running round, like, asking all these questions and then er the doctor examined me and..." "Er, yeah, and then um..." "This copper gets me into his office and then..." "And what happened then, Jason?" "Um..." "He said that... if I said I was lying he´d make it cushy for me, give me money, cigarettes, things like that." "Said they´d move me somewhere nice." "Do you remember the police officer´s name?" "Was he in uniform?" "He was a friend of Parker´s." "They worked it together." "So anyway, they sent me back, never got round to moving me." "And um..." "I became a very heavy smoker." "Do you remember the doctor´s name?" "The one that examined you." "That´s not going to help you much." "He died of cancer." "Nice fella." "His name was something..." "Ellis." "Well, that´s it for now, I think." "Thanks very much." "So, what are you doing now, Jason?" "Have you got a job?" "No." "No qualifications." "Five-year-old kid reads better than I do." "I do odd jobs around the place." "Fix up cars." "I get drunk." "Like if sometimes I get a bit angry." "And then you get into trouble." "Have you ever told anyone else about this?" "There´s no point, is there?" "You just have to live with it." "I promise you we will do everything we can to put this man away." "I promise you that, Jason." "You haven´t got him, have you?" "Not yet, no." "Well, goodbye, then, Jason." "We´ll be in touch." "You know, one night at the home, we was watching this documentary." "Sabe, it was a Nazi thing." "And this fella who ran the concentration camp..." "You know what they are?" "Well, his name was the Ángel of Death." "And after the war he escaped, right?" "He was never hanged." "Nobody arrested him." "Nobody even brought him to trial." "That´s like Parker, isn´t it?" "He did me for eight years." "He did everyone in his care." "You know what we used to call him?" "We called him the "Keeper of Souls"." "Jason, look, go back upstairs." "There´s glass around." "You´ll hurt yourself." "You want to see what the Keeper did to me?" "The man who did this will pay for it, I promise you, Jason." "Look, I promise you." "You´ll just make your train." "Bronwen, can you do a crosscheck on this for me, please?" " Check with social services." " OK." "He´ll live." "Broken leg and hip bone." "He´s OK." " His wife and kid." "I sent a cab for them." " OK." "You know, Anthony and Jason?" "That´s too much of a coincidence." "I mean, if Edward Parker-Jones moved on, maybe so did that police officer." "Any developments on Jackson?" "What?" " You said he´d been picked up." " Oh, no." "What about you?" "Heard from that hospital yet?" "No, not yet." " Still waiting." " Oh?" "How long does it take?" "I don´t know." "Don´t know." "What?" "Well, when are you gonna come clean, Brian?" "What do you mean?" "When are you going to tell me what a high-flyer like you... is doing attached to this investigation?" "I mean, look at you." "You´re university educated." "You´re Fraud Squad." "You´re hand-in-glove with Chiswick." "I know you report back to him, for God´s sake." "Come on, you´re my mate." "You can tell me what´s going on." "I have to report back to Commander Chiswick." "Lf, and only if, your investigation crosses another investigation." "Very good." "All right, you´ve started now." "So what investigation might that be?" "It´s about the blackmail of an assistant deputy commissioner." "He was, or had been, on enforced leave for eight months." "Six months previous to the blackmail threats." "One of the most senior officers ever to be subject to disciplinary procedures." "The matter was passed to the Home Office from Scotland Yard." "Who the hell is it?" "Assistant Deputy Commissioner John Kennington." "What was going on before the blackmail?" "Eight months enforced leave?" "Long time." "Must have been something big." "There´s possible involvement with a paedophile ring." "Jason Baldwin´s social worker." "Margaret Spell." "She´s now based in..." "London." "Thank you very much." "Kennington." " Would you like some coffee?" " No, thank you." " So, what can I do for you, Chief Inspector?" " Were you at one time working at Cardiff?" "Yes." "And in Liverpool." "I also worked in Birmingham." "Was Edward Parker-Jones also working in Liverpool and Birmingham?" "No." "Well, we can be thankful for that, can´t we?" "Do you know Anthony Field?" "No?" "Well, what about Jason Baldwin?" "He was one time a resident..." "Yes, yes, yes." "I remember Jason." "Do you have a close relationship with Edward Parker-Jones?" " I don´t think that´s any of your business." " Yes, Margaret." "It´s very much my business." "Jason tried to kill himself right in front of me this afternoon." "He´s prepared to make a statement that when he was in the care of Edward Parker-Jones, he was sexually abused for a period of six years... and that you, at that time, were his social worker." "You were Jason Baldwin´s social worker, weren´t you, Margaret?" "You were Jason´s social worker." "Yes." "Are you aware of these allegations?" "Were you aware of them when you were working in Cardiff?" "Oh..." "Jason was always telling lies." "He was a compulsive liar." "Ten-year-old boy, Margaret." "You refused to believe him and he had six more years of abuse." "Oh, God." "This is not true." " If I´d have believed for one moment..." " Oh, you believe it, Margaret." "So, do you know Colin Jenkins?" "No." "I was telling the truth." "I..." "I swear I didn´t even come here till 18 months ago." "Edward contacted me." "He even tried to renew our relationship." "Are you sure?" "I mean, these young boys, they´re always making up stories." "I remember Jason..." "Do you recall a doctor?" "Did a doctor examine Jason Baldwin?" "Yes, of course he was examined." "Do you remember a police officer?" "One who was close with Edward Parker-Jones?" "You mean John Kennington." "Yes, yeah, it could be John Kennington." "Do you remember if he was plain clothes or in uniform?" "What rank was he?" "Um..." "I think he was a superintendent." "I never saw him in uniform." "Do you know if this John Kennington is still in touch with Edward Parker-Jones?" "Er, yes, I think so." "If there anyone in this building who knows where Detective Chief Inspector Tennison is?" "On her way back from Cardiff." "Expecting her any moment now, boss." "And you two, as far as I am concerned, behaved in an utterly farcical manner." "One which would, if ever it were made public, put not only myself but this entire department in jeopardy." "In your office." "Just tell me, in God´s name, what possessed you to do it?" "We brought Jackson in, sir." "Sorry." "I´ll be right with you." "DS Haskons, DC Lillie." "You will return to Southampton Row as from tomorrow evening." "DI Ray Hebdon will leave... today." "Hey!" "Get that crap down." "Naughty boys." "Well, this must be worth a bundle." "Kennington didn´t buy this in his wages." "Happens to be my wife´s." "Oh!" "I´m sorry, sir." "I´m Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison." "This is Detective Inspector Dalton, that´s Brian Dalton." "So what seems to be the problem?" "We´re making inquiries into the death of a young boy." "Colin Jenkins." "Did you know him, sir?" "Do you know a James Jackson?" "No." " Anthony Field?" " No." "Jason Baldwin?" "No." "What er... what are you doing here, Chief Inspector?" "Do you know Edward Parker-Jones?" "Uh..." "No, I can´t say that I do." "You were at one time stationed in Manchester," "I believe." "And before that you were in Cardiff." " Is that correct?" " Yeah." "Did you at any time come across a social worker called Margaret Speel?" "No, I´m sorry, I don´t recall the name." "Just before your recent resignation, sir, you were about to instigate charges." "Could you tell me what they were?" "What exactly is this inquiry about, Chief Inspector?" "Please just answer the question, sir." "I have no inclination to answer anything else." "And I´d appreciate it if you would leave." "Maybe you would recollect Colin Jenkins." "Sometimes he was called Connie." "He would have been about 15 years old when you knew him." "He was about my height." "He had red hair." "He was a practising homosexual." "Will you both leave - now?" "It´s just that I notice that you have pictures of young boys here." "Those are my sons." " Will you please leave my house?" " Was Colin Jenkins blackmailing you?" "Edward Parker-Jones putting pressure on you?" "Which of them was blackmailing you?" "Were you aware that Colin Jenkins was selling his story to the papers?" " I´m sorry." "John?" " Mrs Kennington." "I am..." "Please." "Mrs Kennington, your husband was answering some questions." "I´m investigating the death of a young boy, just 17 years old." "He was a rent boy." "His name was Colin Jenkins." "Maybe you read about it." "Hey, Mike." "Do you fancy a drink?" "Sorry, I´m late as it is." " Nothing wrong, is there?" " No, no." "I just wanted to have a word with you." "Um... what do you know about John Kennington?" "Well, he just got his golden handshake." "Why?" "Is he a homosexual?" "I don´t know." "Why do you ask?" "I think he might be involved in this murder case that I´m on." " Murder?" "I thought you were on Vice?" " It´s the murder of a rent boy." "Er, sorry, Jane, there´s nothing I can tell you." "Mike, Mike." "God, they´re just..." "They´re young kids. 12, 13 years old." "They´re the same age as your kids, for Christ´s sake." " Do I have to spell it out for you?" " Yes, you do." "If you start digging the dirt on John Kennington, it´ll be a waste of time." "He may no longer be a big fish but he sure as hell has got lots of friends who are." "The whisper´ll get out, he´ll drop the word and you won´t get near them." "And you won´t help the kids." "And the punters will still be there." "They´ll all still be there out on the street." "Back off this one, Jane." "Kennington´s out of the force." "Ignore it." "That is the best..." "the only advice I can give you." "Well, thank you for your advice." "Oh, incidentally..." "Er..." "Mike?" "You know there´s that superintendency up for grabs" " AMIT." "Do you happen to know which area that is?" "You´re going to become a player, are you?" " Good night." " Night." "Can I just say something?" "Um..." "Well, apologise, really." "I just wanted you to know I didn´t really have much say in the matter and er..." "Um..." "I´m sorry." "And..." "I" " I don´t know where I am." "I´m in some kind of limbo." "I can´t sleep!" "My..." "My girlfriend..." "I haven´t told her." "I´m too scared to have sex with her." "It´s just..." "This whole thing, kind of, you know, hanging over us." "Listen, anyone would feel like that." "What if I´ve got Aids?" "I´m sorry." "Sorry." "Shit." "Sorry." "Sorry." "Hey." "It´s all right." " Listen, I think you should talk to someone." " Yeah." " I mean, someone who understands." " Yeah." " You should go with your girlfriend." " OK." "I´ve got some contact numbers." "I´ll give you the numbers as soon as possible, OK?" "Yeah." "Thank you." "Thanks a lot." "I´ve got Parker-Jones in Room Two." "What?" "He´s here?" " Whose bloody idea was that?" " Mine." "We found some kids that recognised the property where we picked up Jackson." " It´s owned by Parker-Jones." " What?" "Jackson´s been living in a house owned by Parker-Jones." "It´s all there." "Full report." " Who´s interviewing him?" " Haskons and Lillie." " Oh, shit." " As you weren´t here... we couldn´t contact you." "I´ve just been trying to close the case." "No." "I know what you´re doing, Bill." "And you´re just not good enough." "I did not want Parker-Jones brought in yet." " Have you got a reason?" " Yeah." "I´m not ready for him." "Why exactly have I been brought in?" "Why wasn´t all this asked before?" "I´ve been perfectly willing to co-operate." "Detective Chief Inspector." "The time is 18:30 and DCI Tennison has just entered the interview room." "Mr Parker-Jones, could you tell me about your relationship with Margaret Speel?" "She is my fiancée." "Did you, in 1979, run the Harrow Home For Boys in Manchester?" " Yes." " And, in 1986..." " ...the Calloway Centre in Cardiff?" " Yes." "Do you know Anthony Field?" "Yes." " Jason Baldwin?" " Yes." "They were both in my care." "Do you know a John Kennington?" "Yes." "Not well, but I have met him." "Will you tell me about one of your employees" " James Jackson?" "I wouldn´t call it employed, exactly." "He does, on the odd occasión, do some repairs for me." "Caretaking, that sort of thing." "How well do you know Mr Jackson?" "I´ve already told you, I don´t know him on a personal or social level." "He simply does the occasional odd job for me, that´s all." "But he lives in one of your properties, Mr Parker-Jones." "Yes." "I have admitted this." "I pay Jackson a nominal amount and, in return, he repairs the property." "I have no reason to know what he does in his personal life." "I´m not even sure if he lives on the property in a permanent basis, as he told me he has an elderly mother he takes care of and spends a lot of time with." "How many names are you known under?" "I have two houses in the name of Edwards and one in the name of Jones." "I have, on occasión, used both of them." "And why do you use different names on the deeds of your properties?" "I just do." "There´s no law against it." "Would you like to tell me about the two sexual assault charges - one in Manchester and one in Cardiff?" "Not really." "In both incidents all the charges were dropped." "I see no reason to discuss them now." "Did John Kennington assist or advise you in any way concerning these charges?" "I don´t recall." "Have you ever attempted to get monies from John Kennington?" "Extortion." "Blackmail." " Did you ever attempt to get monies?" " No." "That´s ridiculous." "Are you aware that John Kennington was bringing charges..." "I would certainly not attempt to extort monies... from someone who has freely donated to my centre." "I have presented a detailed list, as requested, of all those who give charitable donations to the centre." "I presume this information was passed on to you." "Did you call the emergency services on the night of the 17th?" " I´m sorry?" " An ambulance." "Did you call an ambulance on the night of the 17th?" "No." "Would you please state where you were on the night of the 17th between the hours of 8:15 and 9:30?" "I have already told you." "I never left the Advice Centre." "This is really becoming ludicrous." "Is it?" "Are you aware that it is illegal to display false credentials?" "So would you tell me the names of all the witnesses that you say saw you at the Advice Centre for the duration of the evening of the 17th?" "Billy Matthews, David Driscoll," "Alan Thorpe, Kenny Lloyd and..." "James Jackson." "I think I deserve a bottle of champagne because..." "Billy Matthews´ alibi is now withdrawn." "Billy was not at the Advice Centre or anywhere near." "He was, in fact, in hospital, taken there by ambulance on the night of the 17th - and this is the best bit   from the Advice Centre." " Coffees, please, love." " Fletcher´s dead." " Disco Driscoll, alibi withdrawn." "Kenny Lloyd, alibi withdrawn." "Just Jackson giving Parker-Jones an alibi and vice versa." "The only other person is Alan Thorpe, but he was drunk." " OK, now, where´s Jackson?" " With Larry the Lamb." "Room Three." "That´s a bottle of Moêt for Kathy." "And you two are paying because of this fiasco." "Oh, yes!" "Oh, bloody hell." "Who put those up?" "What did Connie owe you the money for?" "He needed some photographs." "He needed to get some new gear." "Well, that´s what he told me, so I lent him the dough." "How much?" "7:36, DCI Tennison´s just entered the interview room." "200 quid." "Then he disappears, so I go out looking for him." "Did you go to Vernon´s flat looking for him?" "Yeah, but in the afternoon." "I spoke to Vera, she was there." "And she told you what?" "That Connie wasn´t there." "I´ve told you all this." "I´ve said all this." "Did Edward Parker-Jones ask you to say that you were at the Advice Centre?" "No." "Why don´t you tell me about the money?" " Did you often lend Connie money?" " No." "He usually had enough." "He was always pretty flush." "Sometimes I borrowed from him." "So when exactly did you give him this 200 quid?" " I don´t remember, I´m sorry." " Can´t remember." "Er, was Connie living in a house in Camden Town?" "Sometimes left his gear there but he´d not actually lived..." "lived there for months." "Do you know where he was living for the past couple of months?" "No." "I don´t know where he was living." "Where did you give him the money, then?" " Oh, yeah, at the Advice Centre." " No, no." "Edward Parker-Jones said he hadn´t seen him at the Advice Centre for months." "I don´t remember where I gave it to him." "I´m sorry." "Really." "Just don´t remember." "So, how well do you know Edward Parker-Jones?" "I work for him." "He pays me a few quid to look after his property." "Did you ever try and extort money out of a man called John Kennington?" "Extortion." "Know what that means?" "Blackmail." "Did you ever blackmail John Kennington?" "No." "I don´t know him." "So, on the night that Connie died, did you discuss anything with Edward Parker-Jones?" "Yeah." "The price of toilet paper." "I get it in bulk for him." "And after Connie died, did you discuss anything with Edward Parker-Jones, apart from the price of toilet paper?" " Like what?" " Well, look..." "You stated that..." "What have we got here?" "David Driscoll, Billy Matthews, Alan Thorpe and Kenny Lloyd all saw you at the Advice Centre the night that Colin died." "Is that correct?" " Yeah, that´s right." " The same names as listed by Parker-Jones." "I´m asking you again." "Did you or did you not discuss it with Mr Parker-Jones?" "Well, no." "There was no reason to." "They were there and so was he." "So he´s boud to say the same lads as I say because I was there." "See?" "You´ll be charged with the attempted murder of a police officer." "You also refused another officer entry to the house in Camden Town and physically attacked another police officer." "You were holding a 14-year-old girl against her will." "Do you want any more, Jimmy?" "We´ve got more." "I didn´t know they were coppers, I swear." "I mean, they just barged into the house." "And that girl is not gonna press charges cos she begged me to give her a place to stay." "I didn´t know she was 14." "And that other thing, I thought that was Red." "That thick old drag queen." "I didn´t know that was a copper." "It´s just mistaken identity." " Why did you want to kill her?" " I didn´t want to kill her." "No way." "I just wanted to frighten her a bit." "Why?" "Well, Vera told me she´d been talking to the cops... and all I wanted to do was frighten her off." "Why?" "Why did you want to frighten Rodney Allerton?" "That´s Red." "Because I did." "I´m sorry, I´m really sorry." "It was all a mistake." "Oh, James, you must have had a reason." "No." "No, I didn´t have a reason." "That´s the God´s honest truth." "Well, you are going to go to prison for a very long time." "For no reason at all." "My client´s very tired." "Perhaps we can continue this interview in the morning." "Look forward to it." "After you." "He must have had letters, diaries." "He was selling his story to that woman." "What was her name?" "Jessica Smithy." "I mean, what if Jessica Smithy spoke to Martin Fletcher before Connie?" "She was writing a piece about rent boys plural, not just one rent boy." "What have we got here?" "Yeah." "Nice little... awayday assortment." "Look at this." "I want Forensic in here." "I want the whole house checked out and I want it done tonight." "I think we should have another go at our Vera." "She has been staying there." "I´ll wait for Forensic, might be a while." "This is my case, Bill." "Don´t jump the gun again." "Your case." "Yes, ma´am." "Right." "I´ve got a couple of bits and pieces on Edward Parker-Jones." "He owns a number of bed and breakfasts/houses." "All registered under the company name of Protega." " Can you spell that, please?" " P-R-O-T-E-G-A." "He´s a registered charity." "He´s got a staff of four." " All paid?" " All paid." "Glad to see you´re still with us." "DCI Tenison please contact reception" "He receives loads of grants." "He gets one from Camden at 160,000." "The doctor attached to the Calloway Centre in Cardiff - his widow, Joyce Ellis." "She´s 52, has two sons." "In 1987, was married to John Kennington." "As well as that he gets £110 per person from local authorities." "Decided to change sides, have you?" "Could DCI Tenison return to her office?" "Thank you very much." "You have not one shred of evidence against Parker-Jones or his involvement in the death of Col..." "Colin Jenkins." "No, I haven´t got him to admit his involvement." "But I know that he´s covering up for Jackson." "And very possibly for John Kennington as well." "Drop it." "Are you serious?" "In 1979 and again in 1986, both Edward Parker-Jones and John Kennington..." "I´m fully aware of the cases you´re referring to." "You should have made whatever information you had available to me." "I´ve wasted..." "Waste being the operative word, Chief Inspector." " You´re supposed to be investigating..." " The murder of Colin Jenkins." "If I discover evidence that proves that Edward Parker-Jones..." " That is not the Colin Jenkins case." "...is unfit to be awarded massive grants and is a possible paedophile." "Is this true?" "Chief Inspector Tennison, you give me no option but to warn you that if you continue to investigation persons..." "No, just one person." "Edward Parker-Jones." "...against specific instructions, then disciplinary action will be taken." "You take it, sir, and I will fight you every inch of the way." "I have been fobbed off with "stay clear of this or that persons" because of, and I quote, "repercussions to this department"." "Well, this department has blatantly attempted to sabotage my investigations into a murder.." "which has direct links to a paedophile ring, one member of which, John Kennington, was the subject of a full-scale internal police inquiry." " Kennington was reinstated." " Six months later he was being blackmailed." "Uh!" "Case dismissed." "What happen?" "You all get cold feet?" "Retire him?" "Pay him off?" "And somewhere in the mess a young boy dies." "Just calm down." "Look at it from our side." " The investigation into John Kennington..." " Was a failure." "And to the tune of £1 ½m." "Next" " Operation Contract." "Bloody fiasco that was." "How much did that set the government back?" "I mean, you knew there was a leak." "Well, was it John Kennington?" "Be very careful what you´re insinuating." "Look, I just want to find the murderer of Colin Jenkins." "If that touches on Edward Parker-Jones or anyone else, then so be it." "I take full responsibility You can lay it all on my shoulders." "But I will not be a scapegoat." "If you take me off this case now, I´m warning you, I won´t go quietly." "Don´t make threats, Detective Chief Inspector." "I want to be put forward for superintendent." "Now, I fully expect to make an arrest in the Colin Jenkins murder this weekend." "And, therefore, with the case closed, there will be no further necessities for any investigations into John Kennington." "Did James Jackson kill Connie?" "Vera, he can´t hurt you." "He´s gonna be behind bars for a very long time." "Come on, you can tell me." "I don´t know." "Do you know a John Kennington?" "Vera." "Vera, look at me." "You´ve got to help me." "Jackson was looking for Connie that night." "He said he owed him money." "Connie didn´t need to borrow money from Jackson." "He always used to have money." " Did you know any of his clients?" " No." "He was very secretive about them." "You give one kid a name, next minute they´re offering themselves." "You think he was just gay, don´t you?" "Why do you think we got on so well?" "I don´t know." "Why don´t you tell me?" "He was the same as me." "He´d go with gays... but he liked straight men better." "He wanted money." "He needed a lot." "For the operation." "They do the best in Rio." "He would have had to have paid for it." "There´s no way the NHS would give him the operation." "He was too young." "It´s always been my dream." "So Connie needed a lot of money." "Say, what, 10-15,000 quid?" "Where was he gonna get that from?" "Connie was capable of anything." "Like blackmail?" "Yes." "I think he got scared off." "He was getting a bit desperate." "He´d lost a lot of his big money clients." "He was too old for them." "Kept knocking a few years off his age, but they knew." "Do you know Jessica Smithy?" "So you know that Connie was selling his story to the papers?" "But I think, you know, she kept stringing him along, promising big money." "He used to brag about it." "But she wanted evidence - you know, names, photographs." "Photographs!" "Did James Jackson know about this?" "Well, he found out." "Connie had a sort of a file, you know, to show this reporter." "He found out." "Martin Fletcher stole some things from Jackson." " Oh." " And gave them to Connie." " That´s why Jackson was looking for Connie." " Oh, right." "But not just to get these things back." "Because he knew that if Connie was selling his story to the papers, he´d be in it too." "Connie had been one his boys, you see, early on." "What, you mean it was Jackson who got Connie on the game?" " Yes." " Oh." "But he got him so young." "I mean, he was only ten years old when Jackson found him." "Did you see what Martin got from Jackson, the thing he eventually gave to Connie?" "No, no, I never, I never saw it." "I mean, he told me." "But it was... pictures." "Photographs." "Maybe letters." "I don´t know." "But I never saw what Martin nicked from Jackson." "But that´s why Martin got beaten up, because Jackson wanted the stuff back." "So, Connie had told you about this stuff that Martin had got from Jackson." "And he told you that he was gonna use it, sell it to the papers." "Did he tell you who he was going to blackmail with it?" "No, no." "But he was kind of excited, you know." "He was very pleased with himself." "Said he was going to get the money for his operation." "He was very certain." "Thank you, Vera." "All right, you can go now." " Hello, Margaret." "How are you?" " I intend to report you." "Get you blacklisted from every council and government-run scheme that you´ve abused." " What do you mean?" " I trusted you." "I may even have helped you, that´s what´s worst." "Worse than the lies you´ve told me." " Who´s been talking to you?" " Don´t touch me." " Come in and let´s just talk this through." " She knows everything about you." "And about John Kennington." "Before I´ve finished, you´ll go to prison." "You don´t know what you´re talking about." "This is from that Inspector Tennison, yes?" "You don´t understand, Margaret." " Yes, I do." " Shut up!" "Now just keep calm." "Keep calm." "Let me explain." "Get out of here." "Don´t you touch him!" "Get off him!" "Get out." "This place is closed." "Get out now!" "You bastard!" "You bastard!" "That´s yours." "That´s your doing!" "You!" "You bastard!" "You bastard!" "That´s you!" "Bastard." "You bastard!" "Get out!" "Mrs Kennington?" "Edward Parker-Jones." "Can I speak to John, please?" "You bastard!" "So you were told by Martin Fletcher where Connie was?" "You then went to Vernon Reynolds´ flat, didn´t you?" "I didn´t." "I´ve admitted I was looking for Connie, but I wasn´t the only one." "Oh, who else?" "Who else was looking for Connie the night that he was murdered?" "Come on, Jimmy." "It´s just five, ten minutes´ walk from the Advice Centre and back." "I never killed him." "I couldn´t have." "But you had to silence him, didn´t you, eh?" "He´s was going to tell about the way you kidnap underage kids." "They were up at the top of the house." "We´ve seen them." "The knives, the chains, the whips, you bastard." "So did you torture kids up there?" "We have, to date, 15 different blood samples taken from the walls, bed linen, floorboards." "What were you doing to those children?" "Mr Jackson, I really would try to be as co-operative as possible." "You know, these charges against you are very serious." "Look..." "I did go to the centre, right?" "I told Parker-Jones I couldn´t find him... right?" "Look..." "Martin Fletcher took my stuff from..." "What stuff?" "Stuff." "Things." "Photographs." "And I wanted them back, right?" " Were you in these photographs?" " Some of them." "Connie nicked them." "He got Martin to get them for him from Camden, right?" "Are you with me?" "Who else was in the photographs?" " I can´t remember." " Can´t remember?" "You almost killed a boy for them." "You can´t remember?" "Come on, who else was in the photographs?" "Was Edward Parker-Jones in these photographs?" "No." "How about John Kennington?" "Was he in the photographs?" "Just kids." "Blokes dressed up, bit of porno, that´s all." "Anyway, it gets to about eight, a bit after, and I tell Parker-Jones I can´t find Connie and he says get Martin Fletcher, he´d know where he was." "So I did." "Ask Martin Fletcher." "He´ll tell you." "Martin Fletcher is dead, Jimmy." "So, Edward Parker-Jones was looking for these photographs." "Well, why?" "If he wasn´t in them, why was he looking for them?" "I don´t know." "All I know is he wanted them." "So did I." "Yeah, but you were in the photographs." "Are you sure that Edward Parker-Jones wasn´t in these photographs?" "No." "I don´t have any pictures of him." "Was John Kennington in the photographs?" "No." "I´ve told you before, I don´t even know that bloke." "They were just photographs of you and you wanted them so desperately that you were prepared to kill for them." "Look... when that fire started, I was on the other side of Waterloo Bridge." "Who else was at the Advice Centre?" "I was only there two minutes, no more." "Then I come out." "Just two minutes?" "You sure about that?" "Who else did you talk to apart from Edward Parker-Jones?" "Anyone else?" "Yeah." "Vera Reynolds." "Vera Reynolds." "Are you all right?" "He shot himself, not me." "You were here yesterday, weren´t you?" "Yes." "Do you want me to leave?" "But then you´d only want to come back." "So... ask whatever you want and get it over with." "I was in the front bedroom." "We sleep in separate rooms." "There was a phone call." "I put it through to John´s study." "About half an hour later, I heard the..." "Well, I didn´t know what it was." "To be honest, I thought it was the plumbing." "It´s been making extraordinary noises." "Of course, it wasn´t." "John had shot himself." "Do you know who the call was from?" "Oh, yes, I know who it was from." "It was er Edward Parker-Jones." "At least this saves me getting a divorce." "There have been obstacles in the way for almost a year." "Yes, I know about the investigations." "Oh, do you?" "Mrs Kennington, you used to be a doctor, didn´t you?" "Mm." " Do you still practise?" " No." "My first husband died." "We worked together." "Or in the same practice." "In Cardiff." "Yes, in... in Cardiff." "Why do you want to know about my husband´s practice?" "While you were in Cardiff, was Edward Parker-Jones running the um..." "The Calloway Centre." "Why are you asking me these questions?" "Did you examine a boy, a young boy, called Jason Baldwin?" " It was a sexual assault charge." " Which was subsequently dropped." "No, my husband examined him." "Oh, my God." "You think I had something to do with that?" "My husband was critically ill." "He was very sick." "I had..." "I had two small children." "And he had... cancer." "I only remember because... because he died... and then there was this investigation about this boy." "But there was so much confusión." "Whether his reports were stolen or just mislaid, I really don´t know." "My first husband was a very decent human being." "Do you know if any young boys were ever brought here?" "Do I know if young boys were ever brought here?" "I mean, while you were away." "There´s one boy in particular that I´m interested in." "His name was Connie." "Colin Jenkins." "Do you recognise him?" "Mrs Kennington, would you please look at the photograph?" "At least I was able to protect my own sons." "Er, let me know when you want to see Jessica Smithy." "She´s just arrived." "Was it right you wanted Vernon Reynolds bringing back in?" "We just released him." "Yes." "Oh, and watch Alice in Wonderland." "Remember she´s a journalist." " Stick her in one of the interview rooms." " Right." "Yes, hello, could I speak to Dr Gordon, please?" "It´s Jane Tennison." "Dr Gordon, I´m sorry to disturb you at home." "I wanted to talk to you as soon as possible." "No, no, no." "No, it´s just that..." "I would like to arrange a termination, please." "Yes, I am aware that it´s a very big decisión, but I..." "Yes, I obviously have given it a great deal of thought." "I want an abortion." "Yes, I know." "Right." "I´ll call you next week to arrange a time and a date." "OK." "Goodbye." "Bill, would you just give me a moment or two on my own?" "Certainly." " Choose them yourself, do you?" " Er, no, my girlfriend does." "I´d get rid of her if I were you." "It´s shit!" "And you lied to me." "You never at any time said that you were near that Advice Centre." " Why, Vernon?" " You´ve always called me Vera." "Oh, stop playing games with me." "Did you or did you not, on the night that Connie died, see Jackson?" "Yes." "And what time did you get to the Advice Centre?" "A" " A-About 8:30." "8:30." " Where was Connie?" " In the flat." " Alone?" " Yes." "Well... your friend Red is now in trouble, isn´t he?" "Because he swore, on oath, that you were at your friend´s studio at... 6:30 it was, yes." "He never notices the time." "Then I went to the club, just as he said." "When you left your flat, was Connie there?" "Suspect nodded his head." "Was he alone?" "Suspect shook his head." "Well, who was with Connie when you left your flat at 6:30?" "A journalist." "I tried." "I told you." "I gave you all the clues." "It was me who was at the Advice Centre." "I even said Parker-Jones´s name." "It was me who told you about Jackson, me who told you about the press." "I went back to the flat because I´d forgotten um a sequined choker." "Connie was still there." "And he was showing her my album." "She was looking at my photographs." "You don´t understand, do you?" "There were some loose pictures of me before..." "Before." "With my mum and my dad." "Private pictures, no show business ones." "Just my mum and my dad and my brother." "I´d had enough." "I don´t ever see them, so the pictures are very special to me." "After all I´d done for him, he was selling me too." "I didn´t want to make a drama, not in front of the press woman." "So I just called him out of the room." "Said I wanted to talk to him." "He swore he wasn´t letting her have a single picture." "She left a few minutes later." "I went in to check my album." "He lied." "There were a lot missing." "So..." "I confronted him but he swore he hadn´t given her anything, said she must´ve stolen them, but he was such a liar." "And er..." "I got hysterical and er..." "I hit him." "With an ashtray, I think." "He fell down." "I didn´t mean to hurt him." "I helped him to the sofa." "He gave me one of his smiles." "He had such a sweet smile." "He closed his eyes." "I couldn´t feel a pulse and he was..." "he was dead." "Did you call an ambulance?" "My telephone´s not working." "I told Mr Parker-Jones." "He said..." " What?" "What did he say?" " He said he would take care of everything." " Did he?" " I don´t know." "I was put in prison when I was not that much older than Connie." "That´s what I´m scared of." "Inside, they´re all Jacksons." "I was raped every night." "That´s what I´ve been so scared of." "I wanted to tell you but I was just so scared." "I need to go to..." "I need to go to the toilet." "We are terminating this interview at... 3:45 in Interview Room Two." "Mr Vernon Reynolds needs to use the toilet." "Could you take him to the toilet, please?" "Can´t you take me to the ladies?" "You just pretended to like me." "Come on, love!" "Oh, hello." " Who´s in there?" " Vernon Reynolds." "He´s just admitted to smacking Colin Jenkins." "Just finished questioning him." "So it wasn´t Jackson after all?" "Vernon´s cut his wrists." "I need to call an ambulance." "All right." "Come on." "He´s cut his wrists!" "Vera." "Listen to me." " I´m sorry." "I´m sorry." " Hold on, Vera." "Hold on." " I´m sorry, I´m sorry." "Sorry." "I´m sorry." " It´s all right." "She´s losing a lot of blood." "Hurry up!" " I´m sorry." "I´m sorry." " Listen." "Listen." "You didn´t kill Connie." "She died in the fire." "15- minute delay on the ambulance call-out." "Get a car." "Get one for me too." "He died in the fire." "It was the fire that did it." "I´ve been here since half-past two." "I want to go to the ladies." " You have no right to waste my time." " I have every right." "And I will keep you here as long as I wish." "You have lied, you have withheld vital evidence and you, Miss Smithy have wasted my time." "You want the ladies?" "Come with me." "I only made two tapes, I swear before God." "Just two tapes." "I know I should have told you about me being at the flat." "Did you take anything from his flat?" " Did you?" " Yes." "They were just some snapshots." "Nobody famous." "Just a few black-and-white photos." "Apart from the photographs that you took, did Connie give you anything?" "Nothing." "Nothing." "Just some story about being picked up when he was 10 or 11." "I think he made that up." "Come with me." " I tried to contact you, you know I did." " Oh, stop with the Doris Day act." " It´s getting on my nerves." " Your car´s ready." "Get Kathy to get in touch with emergency services." "Check if there was a 15- minute delay on the night of the 17th." "Quick as you can." "Right, Miss Smithy, tell me about Martin Fletcher." "He was the first boy I approached." "He introduced me to Connie." "It became obvious that Connie would make a better story." " We were worried Martin was too young." " Martin Fletcher is dead." "Did you know that?" "Right, you drop Martin Fletcher and you offer Connie money." "Did you give him the money in Vernon Reynolds´ flat?" "Yes." "He put it in his pocket." "He said it wasn´t enough." "He said he wanted more." "All right." "And what happened then?" "I said I couldn´t give him any more, not until I at least saw what he had to offer." "Did he give you anything?" "Any pictures, any names?" "Anything?" "No." "What happened next?" "He left the room for a minute." "And there was this album on the coffee table." "Vera Reynolds´ album." "Yes?" "They were just photos of a family." "And a couple of somebody in drag." "They were no use." "They meant nothing." "You´re wrong, Miss Smithy." "They meant a great deal to someone." "Enough to make him pick up a heavy ashtray and hit Connie over the head with it." "You have a great deal to answer for." "Will you take Miss Smithy and bring her back with Vernon Reynolds´ photographs?" " Are you going to charge me with anything?" " We´ll see about that." "Emergency services have said there was a 15- minute delay that night and all callers were informed that that was the case." "I´ve got him." "And this time I´m ready for him." "Let´s go." "I hope you´re satisfied." "You´ve emptied the place." "Mr Parker-Jones, I am arresting you on suspición of involvement in the murder of Colin Jenkins." "You do not have to say anything... but if you wish to, what you say may be used in evidence." "You all set?" "I think so." "You´d better nail him." "I intend to." "I told you I had names." "Very important people." "High-up people" "Very important people, because if they found out I was doing this, they´d kill me." "Very important people." "High-up people." "Very important people." "Good luck, guv." "Mr Parker-Jones, you have stated that on the evening of the 17th, you were at the Advice Centre, Soho, is that correct?" "Yes." "Would you please tell me who else was present that evening?" " Billy Matthews..." " Statement withdrawn." "Matthews denies being at the centre." " David Driscoll?" " Statement withdrawn." "Driscoll denies being at the centre." " Alan Thorpe." " Alan Thorpe says that he was at the centre but that he was not only intoxicated but also suffering from substance abuse and was, in his own words, unable to remember whether he was there himself." "James Jackson." "Mr Jackson has made a statement, contradicting an earlier statement." "He now says, under caution, that he was at the centre, but for no more than two or three minutes." "Do you have any other alibi witnesses you wish to have recorded at this time?" "My client will answer." "I... realise I have been very foolish." "I can only apologise and say I was in some way trying to protect Vernon Reynolds." "Vernon was at the centre on the 17th." "Did you speak to Vernon Reynolds?" "No comment." "Did Vernon Reynolds ask you to call an ambulance?" "No comment." "Mr Parker-Jones, we are in the possessión of a tape recording." "It´s a phone call made to the emergency services on the evening of the 17th." "It would be very simple for us to match the voice on the tape with yours, so did you or did you not call an ambulance on the evening of the 17th?" "Yes, I did call an ambulance." "Vernon was in a dreadful state." "Er, he said that Colin Jenkins and he had argued and that Colin needed a doctor." "I placed a call with the emergency services." "And what did the emergency services tell you?" "That the ambulance was on its way." "Anything else?" "No, I don´t think so." "Why didn´t you leave your name?" "Well, because the Advice Centre has had, on occasión, to place emergency calls and then when the ambulance arrives..." "Did the emergency services tell you that there would be a 15- minute delay?" "I don´t remember." "Would you agree that Vernon Reynolds´ flat is about a two-minute walk from the Advice Centre?" " Yes." " So, if you had been informed of a delay..." "I was unaware of any delays." "Why didn´t you call a doctor?" "Why didn´t you make that short journey yourself?" "Well, because I couldn´t leave the centre unattended." "And at no point did Vernon make it clear that it was an emergency." "I was asked to phone an ambulance." "Which I did." "I admit I lied to you about that, but I was just trying to prevent Vernon Reynolds from getting into trouble." "Do you have any further questions you wish to put to my client?" "Yes, I do." "Mr Parker-Jones, you´ve apologised for lying." "You lied about the four witnesses you said saw you at the Advice Centre on the evening of the 17th." "Now, one of those witnesses was Billy Matthews." "Is that correct?" "Yes, but you must understand that on any given evening, there could be 20-25 boys..." "Yes, but you were most specific about Billy Matthews." "The reason you said you recalled him was because he was ill." "Yes." "It transpires Billy Matthews was not at the Advice Centre that night." "He was in Charing Cross Hospital." "I´m sorry, I..." "I just must have confused the evening." "Really?" "Even though you called an ambulance for him?" "That would have been on the evening of the 16th." "On that occasión, you did leave your name." "And on that occasión, you were informed that there would be a 15- minute delay." "Is that not correct?" "It´s possible." "Oh, it´s possible?" "It´s also possible that the following evening when you called an ambulance, you would already know that there was a 15- minute delay." "Giving you time to leave the Advice Centre and go to Vera´s flat." "Did you?" "Did you go to Vernon Reynolds´ flat?" "No." "I did not." "Mr Parker-Jones, are you aware of the existence of certain photographs belonging to Mr James Jackson?" "No comment." "And that in these photographs you are pictured with the deceased, Colin Jenkins?" "No comment." "And that you are photographed in various poses with other juveniles?" "And that these photographs were taken from your house in Camden?" "No comment." "Oh, I think that you knew of the existence of these photographs." " You knew Connie Jenkins was selling them." " No comment." "So you had James Jackson searching all over London, desperate to track them down, desperate to track Connie down." " But you couldn´t find him, could you?" " No comment." "And then Vera came to you, as you said, in a dreadful state." "Saying that the very person you were looking for... was not only in her flat... but was also unconscious, alone and with those photographs." " No comment." " So you said you´d arrange everything." "You said that you´d even call an ambulance." "No comment?" "No comment again, Mr Parker-Jones?" "You´ve already admitted that you were aware of the delays." "You used that 15 minutes, didn´t you?" "You ran from the Advice Centre, you went to Vera´s flat." "Connie wasn´t dead, was he?" "He was still alive." "Just semiconscious." "So you made sure he would never be able to tell anyone about you, you and your friends, Mr Parker-Jones." "It was so easy." "He couldn´t do anything - couldn´t fight back, couldn´t stop you - as you set light to him, you left him to burn to death." "No comment." "Good night, Inspector Tennison." "Which is the way out?" "Without a witness who actually saw person or persons unknown set alight to that flat, you´ll never have a case." "So... this blown my chances for superintendent?" "Oh, no." "No, you´ll get it." "No strings." "Jessica Smithy´s back." "Still looking for a scoop, Miss Smithy?" "I´m paid to expose the truth." "It´s my job." "Bit like yours." "No, your job isn´t anything like mine." "But it is criminal that a man like Edward Parker-Jones... is allowed to gain access to young children... and all with the blessing of the social services." " Files you asked for, guv." " Thank you very much." "Yeah." "Young boy called him..." ""the Keeper of Souls"." "It was his nickname." "Good headline, isn´t it?" "Nice turn of phrase for a sick pervert like him." "Excuse me." "Is Parker-Jones going to be charged?"