ONCE THEY STARTED DELVING into Adam Chambers’ affairs, they found plenty to prove him nothing like the ‘nearly’ law-abiding character that Llewellyn had described. Adam was not only a cocaine user, they discovered, when Rafferty organised a warrant and searched his London flat, but he was also a supplier. There was a stash of the drug concealed in his cistern. And it was bookies in the plural, rather that the singular, to whom he owed money, as was evidenced by the obliquely threatening letters they found.
Adam owed some twenty thousand pounds in total. And some of the letters demanding payment had been getting nastier. Had Adam been worried they’d send the boys round next? Maybe that was why he’d been so willing to remain at his grandmother’s house rather than return home.
But if he’d b
