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By the time Jack and Wendy had got back from John Lucas’s house, the team had begun gathering together all the information they had relating to the man and his past. Having had Lucas booked into the custody suite, they’d left him to sit in a cell while they gathered everything they needed for the interview.
They knew they’d have twenty-four hours in which to speak to him and gather enough evidence to convince the Crown Prosecution Service to authorise charging Lucas. If that time passed, they’d either need to request an extension — something which was far from guaranteed — or release him.
‘There’s quite a lot of information on the armed robbery case itself, and even more on things John Lucas said afterwards, while he was in prison,’ DC Ryan Mackenzie said. ‘Two men were convicted ove
