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There wasn’t much more the team could do that night, even with the new information. On the face of it, all they had were reports that the property was being used as a male brothel, and a man driving Martin Cummings’s wife’s car was seen going into it.
If everything was as it seemed, the enormous operational sensitivities meant that they’d need to tread extremely carefully, and couldn’t risk going in all guns blazing.
Although he’d initially been shocked and stunned by what Steve and Frank told him, Jack had lain awake that night working through the ramifications of what it meant. It would, of course, end up in the newspapers. The tabloids were so opposed to elected Police and Crime Commissioners that there’d been a veritable witch hunt in the early days, with numerous PCCs having res
