‘So you witnessed the operation?’
‘Not only witnessed; we filmed it.’
Sant widened his eyes. ‘Really?’
‘Really, Inspector.’
‘You got more than you bargained for.’
‘Correct. You see, Sheila and I felt that if we could capture on film a racially motivated attack on a policeman at the hands of his fellow officers, then we could destroy the whole rotten hierarchy of West Yorkshire Police. And score a major coup for investigative journalism at the same time.’
‘But Patel wasn’t attacked that day.’
‘Like you said, Inspector, we got more than we bargained for. What we witnessed that morning was a catastrophe. To cut a long story short, Sergeant Gray – one of those officers who must have been in the know on the assassination ploy because we filmed him being briefed by the two hit-men recruit
