BURNING GREED: a gripping murder mystery, full of suspense by Diane M Dickson

Author:Diane M Dickson [Dickson, Diane M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Book Folks bestselling British crime fiction, mystery and thriller publishers
Published: 2018-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 34

They would not let Tanya see Serena because the girl had been sedated. They had given her a morning-after pill, taken swabs and blood samples, she would be screened for STDs, HIV, and hepatitis. Fiona had sobbed and wiped constantly at her bloodshot eyes as she went through the indignities and discomforts her daughter had suffered at the hands of the medics.

They were sitting together on hard plastic chairs in the reception area, waiting for Graham to bring the car from the parking space.

“She wouldn’t see her dad. She said she was too embarrassed. It broke him in pieces,” Fiona said.

Though Tanya knew a bit more about her brother-in-law than she really wanted, she did feel for him. It was a common enough reaction with the young girls she had dealt with who had been sexually abused. It would take a long time for them all to recover. They would never be quite the same again.

“I want him in jail, the swine. I want him in jail, and the others – all of them.” There was a slight edge of hysteria to Fiona’s voice and Tanya didn’t think this was the time to explain that actually, there was very little likelihood of that happening. He might be sentenced for his attack on a police officer, that remained to be seen; and there were the drugs, but that was minor in the great play of things.

For the rest of it; it had happened in a foreign country, Serena had gone with him knowingly and had even understood that they were probably going to smuggle drugs. She had no clear knowledge of what had happened because of what she said they had given her. It was a nasty mess all round. She was not underage and couldn’t prove that Iain Laithwaite or anyone else had raped her. She had some physical signs of rough sex, but they were healing already. It did seem he had locked her up against her will but in all of it the girl was not completely innocent. A defence lawyer would tear her to pieces even if the Procurator Fiscal thought there was enough to progress with it. In the end the result would probably not be worth the trauma. It was unfair, a young girl had been taken advantage of, a family changed forever, but it was an old story and they would have to find a way through, most probably without the justice they wanted.

Tanya looked at her distraught sister and simply shook her head. She couldn’t face the arguments, the demands, the harassment, the heartbreak, if she tried to explain. She would leave it to other people, Stan Laird maybe, or the solicitors they had already contacted. It was cowardly, but she’d had enough and there was nothing that she could do to change any of it, no matter how much Fiona railed and cried.

The doctor had prescribed strong painkillers, but Tanya had pushed the little box into her pocket unopened. She wanted

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