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‘How the f**k did that not come up at the start?’ Culverhouse yelled, as he slammed the car door behind him and started up the engine.
‘I really don’t know,’ Wendy replied, fastening the passenger seatbelt. ‘It clearly slipped through the net somewhere. We’ll sort out the details later. The most important thing is that we get on it now.’
The news that PC Rashid had imparted was that when they’d gone to John Lucas’s house to return his belongings, a woman had answered the door. It transpired that the woman was called Valentina Kuznetsova, and had been John Lucas’s mother’s cleaner for a number of years. She’d been kept on for a few hours a week after his mother had died, to keep the house clean.
‘He never mentioned anything about anyone else having access to the house. He lied to us,
