‘Yes, sir, that does look like him,’ Percy Copper stated when shown the photograph of Frankie Starling taken from the CRO file that had been brought down from Wakefield HQ. The most likely of the three photos picked out by Percy had been a slightly different photograph of Starling
‘But sir, if I had to stand up in court, I could only say that it only looks like the man who shot me but I could not swear that is definitely is the man.’
‘That’s fine Percy, I would not want you to perjure yourself if you are not 100% certain.’
‘I could swear that I was, say, 70%-80% certain, sir. But no more. Sorry.’
‘80% is good, very good. Thank you Percy.’
‘Thank you, sir,’ Percy said as he left.
