You Will Never Find Me by Robert Wilson

Author:Robert Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Europa
Published: 2015-02-24T05:00:00+00:00

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11:00 A.M., THURSDAY 22ND MARCH 2012

DNA Solutions, Slough, near London

What have we here?’ asked Dr. Perkins, white coat, white shirt, blue tie, glasses, a man used to resolving paternity cases.

‘These slides are tissue samples taken from my daughter by the forensic lab of the Madrid police,’ said Boxer.

‘Tissue samples . . . forensic?’ said Perkins, alarmed. ‘Madrid police?’

‘She was murdered in Madrid last weekend. The police are unable to process her DNA for another three weeks and we want to repatriate her body, or what’s . . . ’

‘I’m very sorry for your loss,’ said Perkins. ‘Does this mean she was unidentifiable?’

‘This was taken from a body part found with her clothes and passport.’

‘My God,’ said Perkins, looking at the man across the desk from him, stunned by his professional detachment. ‘You must be . . . Are you all right? This is . . . I’ve never come across anything like this before. It’s . . . it’s a tragedy.’

‘It is for me,’ said Boxer, suppressing the emotional surge. ‘I want to bring her body back to the UK, and to do that I have to have positive identification. I need you to match my DNA to this tissue sample’s DNA and document it.’

‘And what’s on the pen drive?’

‘That’s my ex-wife’s DNA. She’s the girl’s mother and a police officer. Her DNA was already on file. That was taken from an email attachement she sent to the Madrid police before we realised they couldn’t complete the task for another three weeks.’

‘It would be cheaper and quicker to match your ex-wife’s DNA to the sample’s.’

‘I know, but I want you to do both.’

‘Does that mean there’s a question mark about paternity?’

‘I didn’t think there was,’ said Boxer, recalling Mercy’s outburst yesterday. ‘But there might be.’

Perkins looked at his watch, made a call down to the lab.

‘That’s O.K.,’ he said. ‘We can still get your samples into this morning’s PCR slot, which means we could have the results for you by close of business today. We’re going to have to shift other tests into the following day, but under these tragic circumstances I think it’s the least we can do for you.’

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