‘So Gray was already there, before PC Tanner entered the fray.’
‘Correct. Reports at the time were misleadingly. It was the commonly held belief that Tanner was the first to confront the men. The truth was quite different. Whether senior policemen interfered with the information before it was released, or whether the confusion resulted from an innocent mistake, is a matter I have mulled over for long periods ever since. But like every other detail in this case, it makes little sense.’
‘Then what happened?’
‘Well, true to form, Frank Tanner arrived on the scene. You see, Sheila knew Tanner and had asked him to drive his van in the vicinity of the parish church that morning, knowing as she did that something nasty was planned. Tanner was not our source, by the way, but Sheila knew him wel
