SIXTY-FIVE
‘What we have here, Grace, is the body of a middle-aged woman,’ Erika Berger, the pathologist stated as she began the autopsy on the second victim. ‘Approximate age, forty-five to fifty-five years. She is five foot one inch, that is a hundred and fifty-five centimetres in height and weighs seven stone one pound, or forty-five kilos. She is small-boned and malnourished almost to the point of anorexia,’
‘Has she been held somewhere and starved before she was killed, do you think?’ asked Emma Cox who was accompanying Grace on this instance to the post-mortem suite in Sheffield’s Medico-Legal Centre.
‘It’s a possibility, I’ll possibly know more when I examine the stomach contents, but my instinct would be that this is a life choice.’
‘An anorexic life choice, she’s not a teenage
