‘Winnie, Frank Starling’s wife, is fully aware of the situation and only wants to protect her daughter Marilyn from the reality that her father might hang as a murderer,’ Yarrow reported at the following morning’s briefing. ‘She would rather it end with a policemen’s bullet. That is not going to happen. This is not the Wild West. Anybody who thinks they can charge in, guns blazing like a Hollywood movie, can think again. Frankie Starling is to be taken alive and face justice in court.’
As Yarrow looked around at the assembled officers, he could see that Harry Rawlings, for one, had envisaged himself as the hero taking down a notorious killer.
‘One piece of intelligence we did pick up, Winnie Starling believes that Frankie had a girlfriend in Garside. She did not know who, did not have a
