Chapter Nine Dressed in white forensic overalls, Matilda lifts up the exclusion tape and slides underneath it. She steps slowly into the dark passage way and puts her police ID lanyard around her neck. Jacqueline and Leon follow her into the house. They are all dressed in white and move together down the passage way listening to the stern looking and aggressive male officer who follows them in. “Senior officer Burns District Two. We have the point of entry window there! Where Michael Sanders broke in. He used his fist. Hence the pool of blood there! It’s most likely to be his! Now. He is the man from next door at number fifteen. The call came in to us at seven pm last night, as shots fired and screams heard. We attended and forced entry to house number fifteen. Sanders exited through his

