Chapter 9
Thursday started with a briefing in the incident room, which was crammed with the detectives and uniformed officers assigned to the case under DI Williams’ leadership.
The inspector stood at the front of the room, behind a table underneath the whiteboard covered with photographs from the Hampstead Gardens’ crime scene. At eight-thirty, he raised his hand to signal it was time to begin.
‘The body found in the car at Black Hill has been identified as Joe Donatelli, thanks to quick work by DS Bruno,’ said DI Williams. ‘Donatelli was the owner of the business torched on Muller Road in the early hours of Tuesday morning, probably shortly after Donatelli himself was killed at Black Hill, according to Dr Wright’s estimate of his time of death.’
The inspector picked up a piece of pap
