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For all Caroline’s cautious confidence that they’d be able to ruffle Gavin Tanner’s feathers, it hadn’t worked. Even more disappointingly, their desperate search for evidence that might prove his guilt had been fruitless. In any case, they still had most of the day left before his twenty-four-hour custody clock ran out, and that was without seeking an extension.
Caroline’s minimum target at this point was to secure enough evidence — even if only circumstantial — to secure an extra few hours on the clock. That way, they’d maximise their chances of finally nailing him. If all else failed and they had to bail him, they at least had his interview under caution, which could be used at a later date once evidence came to light. Some cases were slow to charge at the best of times, but dealing
