Ross thought of something.
“Do you recall which way the van was pointing?”
“Oh yes, it was on the correct side of the road, so it would have been pointing that way,” she pointed in the direction she was indicating, which would have placed the vehicle on the far side of the road from the vicarage, with the passenger door closest to the gate into the churchyard.
“Clever bugger,” said Ross, then, “Sorry about the language, Simon.”
“No problem, Inspector. I"m a vicar, not a member of the language police. We all slip up now and then, even me, and you have good reason today, I think.”
“What are you getting at, sir?” Drake asked.
“Well, if he was pointing that way, in order not to be seen from here, he"d get out of the passenger door. That way, Cilla here would have heard the van door shut,
