Family First by Tony Millington

Author:Tony Millington [Millington, Tony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Monteith pulled out into traffic and headed towards Thelwell. Watson was quiet in the passenger seat beside him. He put the car stereo on to break the silence.

‘Old MacDonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o,’ Monteith started singing.

‘What the hell are you listening to?’ Watson finally said, still staring out of his window.

‘Oh, you are still living.’

‘Yes, but what the hell is that you have on?’

‘Just one of Pixie’s CDs. Thought we would have some music on!’ Monteith said, straight faced, bursting into song again, ‘With a quack-quack here and a quack-quack there.’

Watson reached over and turned it off.

‘Okay grumpy, what’s up?’

‘I don’t know. I still think there is something that Crompton is not telling us.’

‘You still on about that?’ Monteith shook his head. ‘If he has something to tell that we need to know, he will. Now we need to get more information on these killings. Get over it.’

Just outside Thelwell they heard sirens. Monteith looked in his side mirror and spotted blue lights coming up fast from behind. They pulled over with the traffic and watched two Volvo squad cars and a Volvo dog handling car flash by.

‘Looks like somebody called for some taxis to take them into town.’ Watson grinned.

Monteith burst out laughing.

A couple of minutes later Monteith pulled up outside Freeman’s old flat. They noticed that there were no lookouts outside the shop across the road, like the last visit.

‘They must have gone to see which house the squad cars have been called to,’ Watson commented, getting out.

They walked up to the door, knocked and when asked, showed their ID to the camera. Sheila opened the door and led them into her office. It had been tidied up, leaving them with more room to sit down.

‘What can I do for you today, gentlemen? It’s about Ronald Freeman again?’

‘When we were here before you mentioned Ronald saying he was being followed. Can you help us on that? Did he say was it someone on foot or in a car?’ said Watson.

Sheila sat back and thought. ‘He mentioned nothing directly to me. It was something that Elizabeth commented on him saying.’

‘How about the others that work here? Could he have said something to them?’

‘It’s possible. Do you want to talk to them?’ Sheila picked up a radio. ‘Mike, Steven, can you come to the office please?’

Both answered that they were on their way.

‘Are you any closer to catching who did this?’ Sheila said, ‘I saw on the news you are looking for a serial killer.’

‘Investigations are ongoing, which is why we are here,’ Watson said.

‘Plus, you don’t always believe what the media says,’ Monteith added. As he was saying it, his phone went off. Taking it out, he looked at the text message shaking his head. He replied and put it away.

As they were chatting, there was a knock on the door and Mike and Steven walked in. They were in their painting overalls and looked like they had more paint on themselves than on whatever it was they were painting.

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