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‘I still don’t get it,’ Culverhouse said, as the pair sat silently in the car outside John Lucas’s house. ‘Why the hell would Freddie Galloway come over to John Lucas’s house, pretending to be from the gas board?’
‘Well, I think we have to stick with our original theory: that our man came to the house on the pretence of reading the meters, but was actually there to plant the evidence we found when we came to speak to Lucas. Just because we now know that man was Freddie Galloway himself, that doesn’t change anything.’
‘But that makes no sense. You can’t frame someone else for your own murder.’
‘You can if it’s not murder,’ Wendy mumbled. She unlocked her mobile phone and called the incident room. After a few rings, DC Ryan Mackenzie answered the phone.
‘Ryan, it’s Wendy. Listen, can
