Chapter Seven
ELLEN HADLEIGH LIVED near the railway station, in a flat on a Council estate. Rafferty knew from the frequent police call-outs that this was where the Council housed their more troublesome tenants, though he doubted Mrs Hadleigh came into that category. Her respectability would be used as a barrier against her neighbours; having heard what Beard had said about her son, he realised why she should need to. They would know all about Terry's arrests for soliciting; he had featured in the local paper on several occasions, even if, as Beard had said, it had been some time ago. She'd lived alone since her son had moved out to try his luck in London.
The Council seemed to have spared every expense in maintaining the estate. Most of the shed doors had been pulled off their hinges, t
