Willow Walk by S J I Holliday

Author:S J I Holliday [Holliday, S J I]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calibre
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Back at home, Davie cuts the lasagne in half, leaves the foiled half on the side and sticks the piece he wants to eat into the oven to heat through. It’s still warm, but he wants it piping hot again. Plus, he has stuff to do before he sits down with the pile of carbohydrates that will send him into a coma for the night.

He opens his laptop. The link that Malkie sent him is still there in the browser window. He’d already read it on his phone, but he knew he needed to read it again.

Graeme Woodley. The teenage schizophrenic.

The photograph, taken in 1995, on the steps of a grey-bricked police station, shows a hollow-eyed youth being led towards a waiting van. His expression is surly, his body stooped. Hands cuffed in front of him. The article has various snippets of sensationalist words and phrases peppered throughout: Paranoid schizophrenic. Psychotic. Beast. No remorse. Dead-eyed monster.

Woodley sexually assaulted his victim with a rolling pin and beat her half to death. The details are graphic and make Davie wince. The victim had been left in a coma, from head injuries and more than likely shock. He’d used the rolling pin on her internally as well as externally. He’d been found in a local pub, sitting calmly on a bar stool. He was covered in blood. A pint of Tartan Special in front of him, barely touched. The barman had called the police, tried not to make a fuss. He said: ‘The boy smiled at me and ordered his drink. I could see from the amount of blood on him that something was very wrong, but there was something in his eyes. In the way he acted. I served him the pint, but he offered no money and I didn’t ask. He was numb. Expressionless. He didn’t even blink when I picked up the phone behind the bar and called the police. I could barely dial the number, my hands were shaking so much. He smiled at the police when they arrived too. He didn’t put up a fight. I’ve seen plenty of stuff from my years behind the bar, but I don’t think I’ve ever experienced something as chilling as this.’ Meanwhile, the victim was barely ten minutes from bleeding to death. The paramedics had saved her life, but due to the unknown injuries sustained and the massive blood loss, they’d put her into a medically induced coma so they could work out what to do. She’d had an emergency hysterectomy when it became apparent that the greatest damage had been done to her internal organs.

Same as the poor Jane Doe in the hospital right now.

Davie looks at the photograph again. Shudders. Something about his face. It’s familiar, somehow. He can’t place it. A feeling, too. Something he hasn’t been able to shake since the attack on the woman who’d led them to all this.

Underneath the article are links to others that Malkie has pasted in with question marks

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