Ready or Not by Thomas Rachel

Author:Thomas, Rachel [Thomas, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-08-31T23:00:00+00:00

Thirty One

The station was buzzing with the news that Stacey Reed had been found alive. She had been taken to the Royal Glamorgan hospital and Dean Williams had been arrested at the scene, where he had quickly implicated his cousin when he’d realised the game was up. Nathan planned it, he said, and had threatened him with violence if he refused to help.

The idea that Dean Williams, a broad, bull of a man who clearly spent a lot of time at the gym and over the steroids bottle working on his physique, would be intimidated by his cousin, a lanky, greasy haired weasel of a man, was, to say the least, implausible. Kate suspected that the two of them had hatched the plan together and they’d made a mockery of the community that had pulled together so generously to find the little girl. But even that needed a stretch of the imagination. The fact that the two of them had been able to formulate any sort of plan between them was more than Kate thought them capable of.

‘So,’ Kate said, sitting in the chair opposite Dean in the interview room. ‘Time to talk.’

Dean looked at the duty solicitor who sat beside him. The man nodded, prompting Dean to start talking.

‘I don’t have to say nothing,’ he said defiantly, crossing his broad arms across his chest.

‘Correct,’ Kate agreed. ‘But you’ve already said too much. You’re up to your neck in it, Mr Williams. Speak…don’t speak…makes no difference to me. You’re not leaving this station either way.’

Dean sighed exasperatedly, resting his stocky forearms on the desk. ‘Look,’ he said, uneasily eyeing up the tape machine that was recording every word. ‘I’ve told you already. It was him, weren’t it. He made me do it.’

‘Him being Nathan Williams,’ Kate clarified for the tape. ‘Your cousin.’

She looked at the papers in front of her. ‘You’ve not been up to much recently, Mr Williams,’ she noted, studying his records, ‘unless you’ve just been clever enough not to get caught.’

She looked at the overly muscled, ape man opposite her, who breathed nosily through his mouth; his fat bottom lip hanging loose from his face like a handle on a Toby jug. It was definitely not the latter, she thought.

‘Convicted of theft in 2002. Other bits and pieces not worth mentioning. Convicted of benefit fraud in 2004. How long did you do for that?’

Dean sat back in his seat and rolled his eyes impatiently. ‘Three months,’ he said.

‘Is any of this relevant?’ the duty solicitor asked, peering forward to study Kate’s notes.

She looked up and met his eye. ‘It will be when this goes to court,’ she said. As if he needed reminding. She looked back to Dean. ‘The best thing you can do for yourself is start telling the truth.’

Dean glanced at the papers and sighed. He realised he was backed into a corner. ‘Orright,’ he said, caving in. ‘It were my idea. But only at first,’ he added quickly. ‘It was just one of them stupid things – I never thought it would ’appen, know what I mean?’

Kate shook her head.

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