Alan Broderick stopped talking to his lawyer as soon as Pat and Lina entered the interview room and activated the recording equipment.
‘We have the results from the tests we ran on your DNA, Alan. They confirm you were the person who smoked the cigarettes left at the scene of Sally Gordon’s torture and execution.’
‘All that means is I was in her house,’ said Alan. ‘Nothing else. In fact, it could mean someone planted a pile of cigarette butts I’d discarded some place else. You’ve got nothing, copper!’
Pat looked at Miriam Wales, who Broderick had retained for his defence.
‘He’s got a point, Sergeant.’
‘Not when we match this with the location data from his phone. When we put those two sets of data together we have your client in the victim’s house at the time she was killed, in the ve
