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Jack Culverhouse threw another newspaper on the coffee table and rested his head back against the sofa.
It was a hatchet job. The tabloids led with their pathetic RIPPER COPPER HITS ROCK BOTTOM and HERO COP LOSES THE PLOT headlines and the opinion pieces in the broadsheets ranged from CULVERHOUSE AFTERMATH LIFTS THE LID ON THE DARK SIDE OF POLICING to HARVEY RATBERGER ASKS: SHOULD WE INCREASE PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT TO FRONTLINE POLICE?
The disparity between the two types of newspaper was extraordinary. Anything with a red top was primarily interested in dramatising the fact that he’d been placed on leave (or ‘sent home to sort his head out’, as one particularly sensitive publication put it) as well as speculating on whether his current situation was purely a reflection on what had hap
