FIFTEEN
A FEW WORDS FROM DOCTOR RUTH
I feel it worth a few words at this point in my narrative to pause and place a few things into perspective. Of course, it would be very easy with hindsight for me to make judgements, to say perhaps “Why didn’t so and so do this or that?” or, “Why didn’t they know about this or that?”
The point is of course that the benefit of hindsight was not available to those involved in the case at the time the events I’m relating took place. This tale is in itself a composite, drawn together from the various interviews I’ve conducted with the police officers involved, the family and friends of Jack and those closest to him and the sad facts of the case.
At this stage of Jack’s story, and it is Jack’s story despite the fact that he appears absent from most of th
