the Blooding (1989) by Wambaugh Joseph

Author:Wambaugh, Joseph [Joseph, Wambaugh,]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2010-12-23T23:20:52.796000+00:00

YOUTH GOES FREE

NOW PROBE IS ON INTO DOUBLE MURDER

Both Chief Supt. David Baker and Supt. Tony Painter spoke to the kitchen porter's parents after he'd been discharged by the magistrate at Crown Court.

David Baker told them, "We know what you've been through. You think we don't, but we do."

When Tony Painter spoke to the boy's father, the unemployed taxi driver said to Painter, "A few weeks ago I could have willingly killed you."

"I can understand that," said Painter.

Both police officials were exceedingly polite and patient as they relayed confidential information they'd learned from the boy.

The father made a statement to journalists who came to his home on the day of his son's release. He said, "The lad is staying with his grandmother for the next few days but we'll have a family get-together on Tuesday. 9, When asked about his feelings toward the police he said, "They questioned him for fifteen hours, and although I believe they followed procedure, he was bound to be confused after all that time and just said the things they wanted to hear."

As to other legal implications, he said he didn't want to comment until he'd met with his son's solicitor.

When the father was interviewed by a national television news team, he said, "We have no idea what legal course of action we may take." He would not let anyone interview his son personally, but described the boy's reaction by saying, "The furrows down his cheeks show tears of relief."

Villagers, reporters and the public at large were astonished at how magnanimously the family was behaving. There had been no threat of a lawsuit for wrongful arrest, no demand for compensation.

Three days after the boy's release his solicitor, Walter Berry, told the Leicester Mercury, "They are taking no action whatsoever. They think the police acted absolutely superbly throughout. They have no complaints about the police."

It was indeed unusual to hear a criminal lawyer in the role of police cheerleader, so Berry was asked what advice he'd personally given to the family. The solicitor declined to state, saying it would be "improper." However he added that the family was "completely satisfied with the way police had handled the case."

Actually, the kitchen porter's parents had been given a transcribed copy of portions of their son's lengthy confession. After they'd recovered from the shock and dismay of learning about numerous sexual incidents--especially about a prosecutable indecent assault on the nine-year-old girl--and after understanding that their son was not being charged with any of these offenses, everyone perhaps decided that a quid pro quo was in order.

The seventeen-year-old did not return to his job at the hospital, but stayed at home every day with his parents. His mother voiced concern about his lying around the house as though still in prison.

"He's going to get a bit funny," she told her husband, perhaps unable to admit that her son had always been a bit funny.

"He were frightened to go out the house," his father said. "So we thought a pet would be a bit o' company.

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