MR AND MRS HARRY AND Margaret Jones and Peter Allbright, their lodger, were all downstairs awaiting their arrival. The living room was plainly but neatly furnished. It was a tidy room with no evidence of lives lived in the form of books or newspapers or DVDs left out. Other than a selection of family photographs there were no pictures on the walls and few ornaments. Malcolm Forbes hadn’t supplied them with details of the amounts each of his debtors owed, but Rafferty had set Llewellyn to chasing up this information so they knew that the Joneses owed ten grand between them and Allbright owed four.
The only money coming into the house was Incapacity Benefit for Harry Jones and Job Seeker’s Allowances for Peter Allbright and Dennis, the eldest son, who’d been at the job centre at the time of
