Chapter 10
His statement to police was an absolute game-changer. If they got him to give it as evidence, the McCarthy boys would be away for at least a decade. He sat with a coffee as she recorded his account of his relationship with them. Their agency was already supplying labor when he’d bought the business. He’d tried to throw them out, but at first they’d offered sweeteners.
“What sort of sweeteners?”
“Girls, they offered me a virgin, fifteen years old. She was a shivering little wretch.”
“What happened to her?”
“God knows. I thought of grabbing her and sending her back home. They said she was Albanian. She had no papers and the local thugs out there would take it out on her family.”
Then they’d tried threats, beaten up his ex-manager, torched one of the trucks. They sent SMS mes
