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Caroline assembled her team in the incident room and relayed the latest information to them. Part of her felt bad at having dragged them all in at the weekend, but it was fair to say she now had no option. She needed to throw absolutely everything at this, because they either had to identify and apprehend the killer almost immediately, or the higher-ups would take the case from her.
‘Guv, we’ve had something back. It’s not good news,’ Aidan Chilcott said, looking rather awkward.
Caroline wondered if and when good news would ever come. ‘Alright. Go on, Aidan.’
‘The initial post-mortem’s back on Guy Sherman. In short, it’s inconclusive. They’ve confirmed he died by hanging and wasn’t dead prior to that. They mentioned the fibres under his fingernails, which they said could have been e
