PHYSICALLY ABUSIVE TO HIS CHILDRENDI Yarrow walked briskly into the CID briefing room. Already seated were DS Harding, DC Harry Rawlings, WPC Suzanne Fillmore, and PCs Balderstone and Edgeley. Yarrow’s anger at the killing of Ethel Palmer had not receded overnight. It was the senselessness of it that so infuriated him, a flash of anger from Jack Palmer and a blameless woman lay dead and 6 children were left motherless. And should Jack Palmer hang for his crime, those children would be orphaned and have to live for the rest of their lives with the knowledge that their father had murdered their mother and had paid the ultimate price. How a child could cope with that awfulness, he could not begin to comprehend. Harry Rawlings was another who seethed in anger, not towards Jack Palmer but tow

