Chapter 7Two divers from the Preston and District Sub Aqua Club found the body. They had entered the murky waters, and they had only got down twenty feet or so when one of them spotted the trailing rope and this led them to the parcel on the shelf. At first, they thought it might be drugs and that they had stumbled upon a huge haul. This prompted them to leave things as they were until the police arrived.
Word spread quickly throughout the country and it wasn’t very long before detectives from Merseyside CID were making their way to the scene. With all sirens operating at full pitch, the convoy of cars sped up the motorway at speeds well in excess of the normal speed limit whilst another car was dispatched to collect Mr. and Mrs. Wilson who would be asked to identify the body.
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