58 8th November
As with everything in policing, it was all about balance. The knee-jerk reaction would’ve been to have put the entire town on lockdown, imposed a curfew and had anyone in public arrested on sight. Aside from the impracticalities, that was an approach which would have done more harm than good.
Simply doing nothing and waiting to see what happened wasn’t an option either. It certainly wasn’t something the family and friends of the fifth dead woman would be too pleased to find out about. A balance had to be achieved, and everyone at Mildenheath CID was satisfied that it had been.
Culverhouse had managed — through the assistance of Chief Constable Hawes — to fend off the flailing claws of Malcolm Pope, who’d been suggested as someone who could come in to aid the investigatio
