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On my return to the office I wrote a powerful follow-up to my first story about the murder.
I informed my readers that the victim had been identified as a local man, Brian Sharpe, and I again referred to the perpetrator as the “Skull Crusher”.
The quarry where Brian had been found was no longer off-limits, so I went there with a photographer to take pictures to illustrate my story. A picture paints a thousand words, after all.
Having been briefed by the police, I could safely include information in my column that I’d been obliged to keep out of my first account of the murder. For instance, I was able to confirm that the body had indeed been thrown down the sheer rock face. (This had been no more than speculation before) and, to bring the point to life, I included a photograph of the
