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Jack Culverhouse sat down next to Wendy Knight, opposite a man who looked like a cross between Action Man and a professional wrestler. He’d asked Wendy to join him on the interview for a reason. He knew her style was very different to his, and they tended to be able to elicit far more from a suspect as a team than either of them would do on their own.
The man elected not to have a solicitor present. He knew the firm that ran the operation would likely have a brief on their books, but many organised criminals chose not to wheel them out in the first interview. It was almost a form of power play: as if it would intimidate the police officers to see that the suspect was confident enough to be interviewed without a solicitor. Many lower-level criminals thought it was an admission of guilt
