Her Last Breath by Charlie Gallagher

Author:Charlie Gallagher
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Joffe Books Mystery, Crime Thriller, Suspense Fiction
Published: 2018-07-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Once they got back to Hereford Police Station, George made for the uniform sergeant who was leading the missing person investigation. He was a cheery-looking man, both his beard and glasses were neat and thick.

‘We’re doing all we can to find her. Usually you get a lass of this age and they turn up looking a bit sheepish, you know. They stayed out one night too many with their boyfriend or girlfriends. I suppose you get to a point where it’s gone too far, where you don’t want to just pick up the phone and call your parents ’cause you know you’ll be in trouble!’

George nodded, despite disagreeing with just about every word. ‘And have you got the CCTV from the train yet?’

‘Yes. The transport police are pretty good round here. We get a bit of bother on the trains. They’re pretty slick at getting the stuff downloaded. We normally deal with it, see. The other forces they make them deal with it but we’re so far out we tend to take it on. They really appreciate that.’

‘Has it been viewed?’

‘It has. We found our girl. The train CCTV is very good. We know that she got on. She nearly didn’t, mind! Nearly missed it. She got on the train and then she got off at her normal stop. She was alone the whole time. The footage is clear but she’s not directly in front of a camera unfortunately. She looks like she plays with her phone then falls asleep. There’s really nothing to report.’

‘She was on her own?’

‘Yeah, the whole time.’

‘Was there anyone near her?’

‘There were other people on the train. But they were spread out, as you would expect. She didn’t talk to anyone and no one talked to her. We’ve taken a few stills from it so you can see what she was wearing. We’ve got some of the other passengers too, but they’re not great. We spoke to her workmates and she was wearing the same thing when she left them.’

‘So she disappeared between getting off the train and getting home?’

‘She must have.’

‘That’s not a girl who’s stayed over at her boyfriend’s or her girlfriend’s for an extra night then, is it? That’s a girl who was on her way home.’

The sergeant’s smile fell away a bit. ‘I never thought of it like that. I guess that’s why you’re the detective, right?’

‘Did you find the boyfriend yet? This Adam fella?’

‘Adam?’ The sergeant looked confused.

‘Yes. We spoke to the mother earlier tonight. She said she had told some other coppers about Adam. Annie is seeing someone called Adam apparently. No one seems to know a surname or any other details. Did anyone at work know anything about him?’

‘Oh. Well, no one’s told me about a boyfriend. There are a lot of officers involved, see. We’ve got all the waifs, strays and sick-notes out doing what they can. You know what it’s like! We’ve got no resources so we just put out who we can. It is all being collated.

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