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As a police officer, interviewing people tended to be met with two distinct reactions. A good number of people would open up completely, feeling that they could trust the police and were able to tell them absolutely everything. On the other hand, there were many people who clammed up and didn’t say a word about anything useful. The problem was that it wasn’t always easy to work out which was happening. Quite often you’d think you were getting a lot of information from someone, only to find out it was either inaccurate or that they’d spoken a lot but said nothing.
When the impact of a person’s crime ran deep, emotions tended to be much deeper too. It wasn’t a simple case of anger, remorse, rage or forgiveness. What was on the surface was often there to mask something that was far more
