Murder is a Tricky Business (DCI Cook Thriller Series Book 1) by Phillip Strang

Author:Phillip Strang [Strang, Phillip]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Phillip Strang
Published: 2016-10-27T23:00:00+00:00

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Forty minutes later the interview recommenced. During the interval, Farhan and Isaac had managed to grab a bite to eat. Richard Williams and Quinton Scott had asked for a Pizza each. A young female police officer had delivered them to the interview room.

‘Interview resumed at 12.10.’

‘My client would like to make a statement,’ the QC said.

Richard Williams commenced. ‘I have maintained a relationship with Marjorie Frobisher over the years. This has been infrequent in its nature, but as I had indicated before we have a history of when we were both struggling to make our way in the world. There have been years when we have just been friends, others where we have been intimate.

‘Marjorie phoned me from Malvern. I went up there to meet her. The programme was in need of her, and I did not want her to be absent. There are a number of reasons as to why I did not tell you, not the least that I am genuinely fond of the woman. Also, the ratings and the advertising revenue were sure to be enhanced by her being on the screen, grieving elder sister, vengeful and determined slayer of those who had killed her brother.

‘She was frightened. I reasoned with her, and she agreed to return to London within a few days. I offered to provide her with security, although the reason it was needed remained obscure. That is the end of my statement.’

‘Do you have any knowledge of why she was frightened?’ Isaac asked.

‘She has skeletons in the cupboard, the same as most people.’

‘Hers were substantial.’

‘As you say, substantial.’

‘Are you aware of a child?’

‘I am.’

‘Is there any more you can tell us about this child?’

‘It was before we met.’

‘Was the child yours?’

The QC intervened. ‘My client will not answer that question.

‘It’s okay, Quinton,’ Williams said.

‘The child was not mine,’ he addressed Isaac.

‘Do you know who the father is?’

‘She would never tell me.’

‘Did she know?’

‘Are you insinuating that she may have been sleeping with more than one man?’

‘Yes.’

‘It’s possible, of course. She was promiscuous in a casual manner. Most people were then. It was a time before HIV and Aids.’

Does Robert Avers know about this child?’

‘How would I know? You better ask him.’

‘Do you think he knows?’

‘No idea.’

Isaac could see that he had exhausted one line of questioning. He could not fault Richard Williams in his responses. ‘Did you at a party at her house have sexual relations with Marjorie Frobisher?’

‘Are you somehow trying to imply that because of Charles Sutherland and his daughter, I am somehow responsible for his death?’

‘I am purely attempting to ascertain whether you deny the incident.’

‘I’d prefer to forget it.’

‘Why is that?’

‘Her daughter, plain Jane, legs up in the air with Charles Sutherland’s bare arse bobbing up and down. Not one of the prettiest sights.’

‘How did Marjorie Frobisher react?’

‘Badly.’

‘Out of shame?’

‘No. She had just had the sofa reupholstered. Her fat daughter and Sutherland were hardly the cleanest of people. She didn’t want him spraying his mongrel sperm over it.’

‘She didn’t care about the daughter?’

‘She never had.

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