GERRY HANKS’S AND THE team’s further questioning of Adam Ainsley’s other schoolmates was gradually bringing in more information. But, so far, only one ex-pupil had been cajoled into admitting that Ainsley had subjected any of the younger boys to s****l bullying and even he refused to come out and say the word ‘rape’. To make admissions more likely Rafferty had instructed his team to make sure they interviewed their witnesses in circumstances conducive to confessions and to avoid questioning anyone in the bosom of his family.
When the results were slow to trickle in, Rafferty had everyone in the incident room in order to give them a morale-boosting pep talk. Having been subjected to Cyrus’s conversational style for the best part of two weeks, Rafferty felt he had learned something about pu
