Indefensible (DI Sara Ramsey Book 12) by M A Comley

Author:M A Comley [Comley, M A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jeamel Publishing Limited
Published: 2021-05-19T16:00:00+00:00

6

As soon as Sara and Carla joined Zappel and the duty solicitor in the interview room, Sara picked up on the suspect’s mood. He appeared to be a broken man—defeated, some might even say.

Carla ran through the verbiage to get the proceedings underway for the recording.

“I’ll be calling you Jo, if that’s okay?” was the first thing Sara said.

He shrugged. “Whatever suits you.” He stared at the table, his head low, avoiding all eye contact.

“Why did you do it, Jo? Why kill that innocent old lady? You got what you wanted, why then take her damn life?”

His watery gaze met hers. “I didn’t.”

Is that remorse I’m hearing in his tone? His demeanour is remorseful too! What’s going on? We’ve captured him, maybe that was enough to do the trick. Perhaps he’s going to admit his guilt, and this is all going to be a doddle.

“Come now.” Sara took a crime scene photo from the folder she’d brought with her and slid it across to lay in front of him. “You’re expecting me to believe you didn’t end this woman’s life?”

“I didn’t,” he said quietly. His gaze averting the photo.

Sara pushed the image to a different part of the table, forcing him to lay his eyes on it. “Go on, look at it. You did this, at least have the courage to see the consequences of your actions. You took this woman’s life, leaving me to share the news with her grieving family, and you’re sitting there denying it. What kind of fool do you take me for?”

“I’m telling you I didn’t do it.”

Sara produced another image. This time, it was the CCTV footage from the ATM. Zappel groaned. “Next, you’ll be telling me this isn’t you.”

“It’s not.”

“I beg to differ. When we removed the same coat and hat from your house earlier, you admitted they belonged to you. Now you’re sitting there and denying it?”

“I’m not denying they’re mine, I’m denying that’s me in the photo.” He sat back and folded his arms.

Sara stared, trying to unnerve him. He was a strange subject to work out. “Why? Why are you denying you committed the murder when we have you bang to rights? It’s only a matter of time before we hear back from Forensics with any DNA found at the scene. But even when that comes through, the fact that you were seen extracting money from the dead woman’s account, as in this picture here, has put the ultimate nail in your coffin. And yes, pun intended. We’ve got all the proof we need to put you behind bars for a very long time.”

“Except, I didn’t do it.”

Sara mimicked him and folded her arms. “All right, let’s play things your way for a while, see where that gets us, shall we? If you didn’t do it, then who did?”

“No comment.”

Shit! Not what I was expecting at all.

“People usually tend to go down the ‘no comment’ route when an officer gets close to the truth, is that it, Jo? Am I close to the truth?”

He glanced up, bared his yellow teeth and said, “No comment.

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