ONE HUNDRED SEVENTEEN
PCs Stuart Vardey and Jason Meek knocked on the door of No 212 Laughton House, a council housing block on the notorious Firth Hall estate, given as the address of parolee Chloe Macbeth. She had now missed two of her meetings with Jim Maddison, her Offender Manager. He had phoned her several times on her mobile without success and lately her phone seemed to be turned off.
Maddison was concerned. Chloe had been one of his success stories, a model parolee, who had never previously missed a meeting, was always polite and receptive, had been highly thought of by her employers and he genuinely believed that Chloe was rehabilitated and had turned her life around.
And now, so close to the end of her time on licence, she was not to be seen.
Wondering if she had been ill, h
