Burning Ambition by B. L. Faulkner

Author:B. L. Faulkner [Faulkner, B. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BSA Publications
Published: 2018-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

‘They are leaving the house, sir,’ Johnson reported in on the radio. ‘Looks like they have a girl with them.’

‘That will be the daughter, Sharon,’ said Gheeta. ‘What do they want her for?’

‘No idea,’ said Palmer. ‘I thought they’d pick up Fred if he was part of the plan, not his daughter.’

‘Fred Knoble is at work, sir,’ Claire butted in on the radio. ‘I’ve got the Mint’s work schedules online, and Fred Knoble, 28 Valley Road, Lllantrisant is on shift tonight, six until two.’

‘So what’s with the girl then? Some kind of decoy?’

‘Do you want us to follow them, sir?’

‘No, we’ve got enough officers here to handle this end. Check the house; if Mrs Knoble is there, arrest her as an accessory and see what you can get out of her. But keep her away from any mobile phone; we don’t want her warning anybody that we are about..’

‘Will do.’

‘The Support group is here, sir.’

The driver pointed to the rear-view mirror showing the large black TSG van pulling up slowly behind them. DS Rees-Jones, all in black, left it on the dark hedgerow side and joined them in the rear of the squad car. Palmer did the introductions.

‘So, we really just have to wait and see what happens before we make a move. If we nab the lot of them now, we can only get them for going out with the intention to commit a robbery; if we wait until they actually do something, we can get them for attempting to commit one.’

Rees-Jones smiled broadly.

‘Twelve months’ probation for intention, or fifteen years inside for attempting. I’ll go for the fifteen-year stretch, sir; after all, they have buggered up all our evenings at home, haven’t they? Cardiff versus Swansea on telly tonight, my lads aren’t happy to miss that. Somebody’s got to pay.’

Palmer laughed. He liked Rees-Jones.

‘How many of you are there?’

‘Ten, sir.’

‘Johnson to Palmer,’ the radio announced.

‘Go ahead, Johnson.’

‘We are in the house, sir. Couldn’t get an answer but the neighbour came out and said she’d heard a commotion and screaming, so we forced entry. Just as well we did. Mrs Knoble was tied up to a chair and unconscious, with a nasty bruise and cut to her head. She’s come round now and we have an ambulance on the way. Apparently, Kershaw arriving was a surprise; they don’t get on and she hadn’t seen him for a few years. Anyway, the main thing is they’ve taken the daughter Sharon to the Mint where her husband works; he’s not involved in anything with Kershaw and hates him, so looks like a hostage event is happening.’

‘Right,’ said Palmer. ‘You hang on there until I can get the local force to take over from you, and then come to the Mint. But park up near the entrance. There’s a delivery lane where the van from London has parked up near the main delivery gate at the back, and we are a hundred yards back out of sight watching it with the local TSG; so if and when anything happens you block off the lane.

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