McCleave, Simon - DI Ruth Hunter 01 - The Snowdonia Killings by McCleave Simon

Author:McCleave, Simon [McCleave, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crime thriller, police procedural, psychological thriller, Female detective
Publisher: Stamford Publishing
Published: 2020-01-12T22:00:00+00:00

RUTH TAPPED AT HER computer, digging around for what she could find about Daniel Hughes on the Police National Computer, PNC. Nick was contacting everyone who had attended the Scout meeting the night of Arabella Dixon’s murder. Had Daniel Hughes left there and found enough time to murder Arabella Dixon? And what linked him to Neerav Banerjee? Race? Daniel Hughes had made his hateful views on race very clear.

And then there it was on the screen. Daniel Hughes – Date of birth: 23 November 1976. The address matched. And then a note on Daniel Hughes that he had changed his name by deed poll nine years ago from Daniel Holmes. As a Scout Leader, he would have been subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service, DBS, or more likely the old Criminal Records Bureau, CRB, check that only changed in 2012.

Ruth then searched for more detailed background checks. There was intel on Daniel Hughes that showed that he was a member of the North Wales British Movement, which was a Neo-Nazi group. Hughes had sent out a newsletter in 2014 with the image of Lee Rigby, in the red dress uniform of the Royal Fusiliers, on the front. The more Ruth checked, the more disgusted she became with what she found. She found a newspaper article that described the North Wales British Movement as a ‘poisonous’ far-right group operating in North Wales who ‘had come under fire after setting up a wing to recruit children’. She read how under the banner of Young Dragons, the North Wales British Movement had been taking youngsters to the seaside in places such as Barmouth, Abersoch and up onto Anglesey to add to what they claim is their ‘ever-growing white family’. Another article showed the members, dressed in the white robes of the Klu Klux Klan, re-enacting a lynching with a golliwog doll. Then there was footage on YouTube of members of the North Wales British Movement attacking Muslims outside the Islamic Cultural Centre in Rhyl. It seemed that Daniel ‘Hughes’ was using the Scouts as a way of recruiting teenagers into the British Movement and that was despicable.

In terms of a criminal record, Daniel ‘Holmes’ had his own past including some offences for affray and assault as a teenager and in his twenties. Most of these seemed to have happened at BNP or National Front marches, or at football games.

Daniel Holmes also had a conviction – a suspended sentence for affray and assault during the notorious race riots in Reeds Park, Llancastell. Ruth thought she remembered the story and soon found a news report online. She read how fifty-one people were charged in connection with the disturbances in June 2003, which involved teens as young as thirteen. Trouble had flared a day after an Iraqi Kurd was set upon by local residents, suffering a fractured skull. The next night a group of around twenty Iraqi Kurds armed themselves with baseball bats and clubs and confronted men inside a pub on the notorious Reeds Park estate, whom they blamed for the attack.

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