When we realised that the suspect was Harry, I was obliged to remove myself from the investigation. Jossie and I briefed Senior Sergeant Frank McLeod, and I had to leave the arrest to him. But something made me follow them at a distance, and I sat in my car on the other side of the road a little away from the house.
When Harry emerged, the house exploded behind him. One second he was walking towards Frank, hands in the air, and the next thing flames were shooting through the shattered windows, and leaping and crackling through the rubbish piled at the door.
From where I stood, every part of the house was on fire. Inside it would have been an inferno. Frank and the uniformed officers ran to Harry and pulled him to safety, as Jossie and the other cops ran to evacuate the houses on either s
