Bridge to Burn by Rachel Amphlett

Author:Rachel Amphlett
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781999368326
Publisher: Saxon Publishing

Twenty-Five

Amanda Miller opened her briefcase and handed Kay and Barnes a slim bound document each.

‘When DS Barnes contacted me at the end of last week, the first thing I did was ask for an overview of your investigation to date, together with the matters that give you cause for concern as far as my expertise can help you,’ she said. ‘Based on that, I’ve drawn up a scope of work that will act as a guide for my contribution – we can discuss that now, and this is your opportunity to make any amendments to that scope so that we all have a clear understanding of what you need me to do. Does that sound okay?’

Kay nodded, flipping through the pages before her. ‘Yes. So, given what you’ve read so far about our dealings with Sutton Site Security and the allegations against them, what do you suggest we do next?’

Amanda placed her briefcase on the floor beside her chair and crossed her legs. ‘I’ll be using our ELMER database to start off with. That’s what we log all Suspicious Activity Reports into – it helps to build up a story about a company or person over time, and keeps all the information in one place for ease of reference, very similar I suppose to your HOLMES system. The SARs are provided by the financial industry – banks, pension companies, et cetera. Using ELMER, I’ll be looking for any evidence of unexplained wealth, unusual cash deposits or pay-outs, that sort of thing. I have access to account numbers, bank statements, pensions, mortgages – everything. We’ll soon find out if Mark Sutton’s income from his security business is sufficient to support his lifestyle.’

‘How does that help us?’ said Barnes. ‘I mean, we’re trying to find out if he had anything to do with the death of Damien Brancourt, not whether he paid his taxes last year.’

Amanda smiled. ‘I realise that. This first stage of my work is to build a profile about Sutton, so we can see what we’re dealing with. Once I have that, we can start to analyse his accounts and pull apart his business at a micro level. For example, does he have more staff on his various contracts than he claims to be paying? That would indicate he’s paying them in cash – now, to me that says two things. He’s either dodging tax, or he’s using the cash he pays to off-the-books employees to launder money coming into the business. Another example – you stated in your email to me, Ian, that you’d received allegations against Mark Sutton that he’d threatened a construction company in order to win work and had stolen two generators and equipment from them to coerce them into awarding that work to him. You also stated that when you attended Sutton’s offices last week, there were no plant vehicles near the building. So, how did he steal the equipment? Did he hire vehicles to remove it from Brancourt and Sons’ yard? If he

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