Flipping heck Sandra
Except from IB (p.17-18)
‘The murder of Jodi Jones sent shock waves crashing through a number of interlinked, interdependent small communities encircling Dalkeith. The place was awash with rumour and horror stories. From the moment the news broke, another instant and insidious piece of information began to circulate. The girl’s 14-year-old boyfriend, Luke Mitchell, was the murderer.
As days turned to weeks and no arrest was made, hysteria turned to hostility and quickly hardened into hatred. The boy was a brutal killer, a weirdo, everyone knew it. Why hadn’t they arrested the little b........ yet? Cocky little so and so was walking around as if butter wouldn’t melt....
The original discomfort I felt at the speed of the local condemnation of the boyfriend grew rapidly into a sense of alarm. Everything I saw, heard and read caused me to question the entire investigation, but for vastly different reasons to those I heard in the local stores and bus sheters.
Bus shelter?
Did you catch the bus to work when you were a self employed carer?