SHOTS FIRED: Detectives must find a murder weapon to close a cold case (London detectives Nash and Moretti Book 3) by Ian Robinson

Author:Ian Robinson [Robinson, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Book Folks contemporary fiction publisher
Published: 2021-06-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Nash and Moretti left Fielding and returned to Colindale to interview O’Connell. Neither of them had spoken during the tube journey, using the time to take in the new information. No wonder the NCA were involved, Nash thought. This went way beyond an organised criminal network involved in people trafficking and cannabis farming. She knew they hadn’t been told everything. The victims’ bodies were missing and Fielding, by all accounts, hadn’t a clue where or how that had happened, or wasn’t saying. Surely someone would have spoken with the people tasked with the removal of the bodies to the mortuary in anticipation of the post-mortem.

If they’d been spoken to, why hadn’t Fielding told her? It was an obvious question that Fielding must have known would occur to her. She hadn’t voiced her concerns as he had made it clear that he wasn’t there to answer questions. He was there to give her a warning. She and Moretti were treading on toes by pursuing this matter.

To Fielding, this wasn’t about charging the right person or providing closure for Whittaker’s family. This was about organised crime and corruption. Nash knew from her UCO work that drugs didn’t simply arrive in the UK by the tonne. There had to be connections at either end to enable the drugs to move undetected and that meant paying the right people, in the right positions, good money to ensure it reached its intended destination.

She’d spoken to Moretti on the walk to Vauxhall tube station about the low-level threat to his life Fielding had inferred but hadn’t backed up with anything concrete. Moretti had shrugged it off. How could his brief association with PC McLachlan and one phone call place him at immediate risk of harm? There’d be time to discuss it all once they’d spoken with O’Connell. Fielding hadn’t said they shouldn’t interview him, he’d simply asked to be informed of the result. Nash had assured him she’d let him know exactly what was said.

* * *

The interview room felt cold and there was nothing that could be done to warm it up. It would have to do, Nash thought. She adjusted her chair opposite O’Connell who sat waiting for the recorded interview to begin. Nash had conducted the legal preamble and once she was satisfied, she nodded at Moretti and cracked on.

‘Mr O’Connell, as you are aware, you’re in custody as a result of a warrant executed at your premises in the early hours of this morning where a substantial package of cannabis was found.’

‘That’s right,’ O’Connell replied.

‘I don’t wish to question you further about that as you admitted it was yours last night and signed an officer’s notebook to this effect. What I’m interested in is documents in relation to a Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle found at your premises, a V5 registration document in fact.’

Nash waited. O’Connell stared back at her bemused at how easy this appeared to be.

‘Yes, that was at my house. I don’t think that’s a criminal offence, Inspector,’ he replied, with a genuine look of bewilderment upon his face.

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