TWENTY-THREE
“Bad news, Boss. Alun Williams has done a runner. There’s no point keeping Satvir on standby to pick him up,” Donny announces.
“What happened?” Alex replies.
“A detective from South Wales Police has been on to update us. As requested, they tried to arrest him last night, but he wasn’t home. The parents were distraught even before hearing about the arrest warrant.”
“What did our boys find out?” Alex asks.
“It seems Alun hadn’t been home for several weeks, not since he’d moved back to his student flat in Manchester at the start of term. He spent midweek there and travelled to Glasgow at the weekends, same as the phone report suggested. They had, of course, spoken to him regularly, but they hadn’t seen him.”
“I don’t suppose it’s too unusual for a student of his age,” Alex
