CHAPTER 12Unable to sleep, Barry O’Donnell found himself thinking of Christy, convinced as he was of her innocence in spite of the way the cards were so indisputably stacked against her. As wild and impulsively reckless as his sister was, surely she would not deliberately put her freedom at stake quite so soon after her release from prison, however much she hated Chadwell. Alternatively, Christy’s condemning words issued seconds after being sentenced to eight years imprisonment in H.M.P. Holloway echoed resolutely in his head. “‘I’m gonna get you for grassing us to the filth Chadwell, if it’s the last thing I bleedin’ do, you bastard!”
Chadwell had remained an impassive observer in the courtroom throughout the trial, Barry recollecting with the same raw anger he himself had initially ente
