Burnt Paper Sky by Gilly MacMillan

Author:Gilly MacMillan
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9780349406381
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2015-02-05T00:00:00+00:00

JIM

Addendum to DI James Clemo’s report for Dr Francesca Manelli.

Transcript recorded by Dr Francesca Manelli.

DI James Clemo and Dr Francesca Manelli in attendance.

Notes to indicate observations on DI Clemo’s state of mind or behaviour, where his remarks alone do not convey this, are in italics.

FM: So if you’re happy to, I’d like to talk about your interview with Ben’s mother and his aunt.

JC: Fire away.

His manner is hard for me to decipher today. He seems more willing than usual to talk but he has a professional mask on too, he’s controlling his emotions.

FM: What an extraordinary revelation. I find it amazing that Nicky Forbes could have kept that information from her sister for all those years.

JC: It wasn’t just her; it was their aunt as well.

FM: How did Rachel Jenner react?

JC: Total shock, obviously. I don’t know what happened just after we left but I can’t imagine it was pretty.

FM: Am I right in thinking that this was a real moment of triumph for you in the case?

JC: Fraser was pleased. Yes. Especially because they’d ruled out Edward Fount, the role-play guy, that same morning.

FM: So you were right about him?

JC: Yep. When Woodley went to pull Fount in – this was while I was with Nicky Forbes – he found him waiting with a woman, another role-play member, and she gave Fount an alibi. They’d gone back to Fount’s flat together after the afternoon in the woods – shagging basically, if you’ll excuse my language – and in spite of the fact that she was nearly twice his age.

FM: And neither of them had mentioned this before because?

JC: Oldest reason in the book: she was married, to the ‘Grand Wizard’ apparently.

FM: Oh my.

JC: Yeah. A bit messy. I won’t repeat what Fraser said when she found out.

He almost smiles.

FM: So you were able to move on from that line of investigation.

JC: Absolutely. Fraser was happy with how things had gone, but she had concerns about how we should handle Nicky Forbes going forward, so she felt that the best course of action would be to re-interview her the following day. Give her and Rachel Jenner time to cool off.

FM: Did Nicky Forbes have an alibi for the Sunday afternoon?

JC: She’d told us that she was at a food fair. A big event, lots of stalls, very busy. It was research for the blog she writes. We sent out DCs to interview all the people she might have had contact with, but they were scattered far and wide, as you might imagine, so we knew we’d need a little time to put together a picture of her movements.

FM: Did you speak to her husband?

JC: Again Fraser felt we should wait on that just a short while. Her strategy was to look into the alibi first, and give the family space while we worked out whether Nicky Forbes could actually be good for it or not.

FM: Did you agree?

JC: Absolutely. You’ve got to fit the pieces into the jigsaw in the right order.

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