“But he’s a murderer,” Hana said. “How on earth can he live with that?”
“Firstly, James only thinks he’s a murderer, not that he’d listen to me and secondly it was self-defence. He was waiting for Matron to fetch the van to do the run to the doctors and saw Collins through the dining room window. He went to ask for that damn plane and they argued. Collins attacked him with the shovel and from what James says, the man was high and didn’t make sense. He prodded the boy with it but kept falling over. James said the man went mad, telling him he was a dirty immigrant and should go home. The boy snapped, grabbed the spade and jabbed Collins in the chest with the handle. He reckons Collins fell backwards straight into the trench.”
“So he covered the body and went off to the doctor’s about an in
