He recalled the grim scene in the mortuary at the West Garside General Hospital. Pathologist Penrose Gordon-Blood, long green rubber apron, black rubber gloves up to his elbow, bending over the body on the mortuary table as he examined it again in the harsh, faintly blue, bright light of fluorescent tubes overhead, a magnifying glass in his hand whilst Marjorie Thundercliffe took the photographs and made notes as dictated by the pathologist.
The victim was, Gordon-Blood said for the record, a young female of Caucasian ethnicity, age between twenty to twenty-five years old. She had long naturally blond hair, there being no sign of peroxide or other colouring agent. Her pubic hair, lightly trimmed, was also fair. She was five feet, nine inches tall, of slim build and weighing eight stone fo
