Fighting Back
“The forensic people found minute scrapings from the same can on the rim of our chute. Proof positive that the can had come from our floor, if more proof were needed. The neighbours watched silently. Only Sandra and Ming were noticeably absent.‘And have you enough to arrest them now?’ Mum asked loudly as we stood on the landing.Sergeant Maitland nodded. ‘Oh, yes, enough to arrest them … and to hold them without bail. They’re a threat to a single mother and her daughter, and with the reputation t...he Laffertys have they won’t get bail. I’ll make sure of it.’‘And my daughter did it!’ Mum said, even more loudly. ‘My Kerry. A little girl, on her own, found the proof to put them away!’I wished she would shut up. I felt so guilty. Ming had found the proof. If it weren’t for Ming, we would never have discovered the can – the bin men would have come and it would have been gone for ever. And I couldn’t say a word.Sergeant Maitland knew. I was convinced that he did. He stared at me for a long time, waiting for me to say something.MoreLess
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