WHEN RAFFERTY GOT BACK to the station after watching the ambulance departing with a still unconscious Mrs Brown, he called the team in and updated them.
‘So you think whoever murdered Joey Briggs also attacked this Mrs Brown?’ asked Lilley.
‘As to that, we don’t know. Could be just a break-in, given she lives in a rough area.’ Rafferty had had time to reconsider his initial feelings about the attack on Mrs Brown, and he wasn’t certain at all. ‘But, for the moment, we’ll ride with the idea that the two are linked, and go from there. I want some of you out canvassing the area, ask the neighbours if anyone suspicious was hanging about, the usual. You know the drill.’ Of course, what good it would do to ask Mrs Brown’s neighbours; the likelihood was one of her neighbours broke in looking for
