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Jack had made the deliberate decision not to tell Wendy what’d happened to Frank until after they’d interviewed Clive Blake again, at the very earliest. He wanted her to have a clear mind and to drive the interview. He was in no fit state to do so, after all. He’d asked Debbie not to mention anything to anyone else. The others had all gone home for the night anyway, and he felt it would be more fitting to address everyone at the morning briefing.
As he sat behind the table in the interview room, opposite Clive Blake and his solicitor, Jack wondered what Gary McCann was doing at that moment. He could picture him sitting in his living room, drinking champagne with Helen, arms round each other as McCann beamed from ear to ear at how f*****g clever he was. Not only had he escaped justice
