Jessica Babalola and Emma Cox walked into the branch of Simpson’s in the Riverside Mall and asked to speak to Chloe Macbeth.
Simpson’s was a nationwide franchise of dry cleaners, shoe repairers and key cutters, established more than sixty years ago by the now deceased Bernard Simpson who lived by the maxim that ‘everybody deserves a second chance. But not a third.’ Everybody deserves a second chance, which is how Chloe Macbeth, recently released from prison after serving two years of a four-year sentence for Grievous Bodily Harm came to be working there.
‘everybody deserves a second chance. But not a third.’The job was not particularly interesting, but Chloe appreciated the chance it gave her and was a diligent and well-liked employee. Nobody knew what her crime had been, it was irreleva
