Allegation by R. G. Adams

Author:R. G. Adams [Adams, R. G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2020-06-10T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

The following Monday, Sue Sullivan told the police and the CPS in no uncertain terms that her clients’ department needed information about Steph and Nicolette’s statements to determine their next move with the Cooper children. Once she’d got her own way, Sue had swept into the team room in person to tell Vernon all about the fight. He’d listened with admiration and then instructed Kit to get over to the police station at once, before anyone could change their mind.

The weather was still damp and drizzly. She decided to walk over to the police station anyway, feeling a sudden desperation to be outside. The route took her past the housing office, some charities and the Community Mental Health Team. A few street drinkers hung around, waiting for the alcohol project to open. A man was lying in the doorway of the tattoo place; Kit got near enough to check he was asleep and not dead. Once she could see he was breathing, she went on her way. This was definitely the less desirable area of town. But it was good to be in the fresh air nonetheless. Kit remembered the promise she’d made to herself a while ago: to get out more, maybe get back to some swimming. She felt cross with herself, because it hadn’t happened, of course. All she did was go to work, come home and worry about the Cooper case, or about Tyler. She could have got out to the beach at weekends. But her anxiety was like a prickly kernel deep inside her stomach; she had to wrap herself around it, keep watching it, otherwise she might lose control, miss something, make a mistake, get the whole thing wrong. It made enjoying anything impossible, so it felt pointless to try. She knew she should – she couldn’t get this disillusioned and bitter so early on in her career. She couldn’t burn out on her first difficult case.

But after spending most of the weekend reading serious-case reviews, her mind was still full of nightmare images. The deaths, the injuries and the abuse. The families in those reports were almost all well known to social services, of course. Drugs and alcohol, poverty, domestic abuse, mental illness. Not vaguely akin to the Coopers. She’d read some of the Savile reports, too. They had made her feel sick and hadn’t helped her in the slightest. So many people had suspected, even known about him, but done nothing. He was hiding in plain sight, one report said. He thought about his sex-offending every waking minute of every day. Some people even said he looked like a paedophile. She knew better than to think like that, but she got the point.

When Kit arrived at the police station she asked for Dai Davies at the desk and rummaged around in her rucksack trying to find her ID. She finally located it and was admitted through the security door to the stairwell, where Dai was waiting for her. They started up the stairs together.

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