TWENTY-NINE
DOCTOR RUTH TAKES UP THE STORY ONCE AGAIN
I suppose this is as good a point as any for me to bring this story back to the present day, to reality as it currently exists for me, for Jack and for the other protagonists in this strange affair. As far as the case of Mandy Clark and the other victims of ‘The Brighton Ripper’ goes, the facts have been recorded and relayed in court and in psychiatric reports many times.
Following a night-long vigil on the night of 7th/8th September, during which Inspector Mike Holland and Sergeant Carl Wright led their task force in a total surveillance operation in the vicinity of Hastings Close the police had become frustrated and bemused when, by 6.30 on the morning of the 8th there appeared to have been no activity in the neighbourhood that wou
