Sins of the Fathers by Les Cowan

Author:Les Cowan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lion Hudson
Published: 2019-07-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

CRAMOND

“Careless, careless, careless!” DI Stuart McIntosh berated himself as he flicked through a series of photos of parking bays in Greenside Place multistorey carpark on his laptop and explained Friday evening’s events the following Monday morning. Campos, David Hidalgo, and Alfonso Bances were with him around the table in a small committee room in St Leonard’s. The question of whether Bances was to be charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life was on the back burner for a bit, though McIntosh was clear that a report would be sent to the Procurator Fiscal. So while felons awaiting formal charges were not normally included in matters in which they had been criminally involved, Bances – as the only one who knew Ramon personally and had an idea of his mindset – was seen as an asset. On the way to the meeting he had come up to David and apologized for some of his comments the previous week.

“Just some of them?” David asked innocently.

“Ok, I apologize for my remarks,” Bances conceded. “It’s just that it’s a subject I have strong feelings about and I am still very angry that Camila couldn’t be protected. I accept that you are not personally responsible for what Ramon has done – or what he turned into. I am partly responsible too for not guessing sooner what was going on. I’d be grateful if we could put that conversation behind us. If you’ll forgive me speaking freely, I don’t like you and I don’t like what you do but I will do anything I can to help stop Ramon – including working with you.”

“Well, at least we know where we stand then,” David shrugged. “I agree the point is to stop Ramon. Whether we like each other is a separate matter.”

So they had gone into the meeting with the air somewhat cleared and were now listening to McIntosh’s account of the weekend.

“The officer we deployed to the garage at 11 p.m. on Friday called in to ask exactly where the vehicle was. Said she couldn’t find it. Then we checked CCTV and saw it had been taken out at 10.30. We missed him by half an hour. And the tracker has been disabled so we have no idea where he is now.”

Bances swore first in English, then in Spanish, and David was tempted to join him.

“But you have the registration number at least, I suppose?” David asked.

“We do. There’s an all-points alert out for it. We have number recognition on motorway cameras so there’s a chance we may pick him up.”

“And otherwise?” asked Bances.

“Old-fashioned police work: door to door, ports and airports, bobbies on the beat. Maybe even Crimewatch, you never know.”

“That seems more than just a coincidence, doesn’t it?” David remarked. “There’s a conversation about knowing where the car is and it disappears just before the officer gets there to keep an eye on it. There’s a conversation about the tracker and it gets turned off. To me that’s more than just bad luck.

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