CHAPTER FIVE
"Another triumph for British justice", the yellowing editorial of the Elmhurst Echo that had appeared the day after Smith's trial, proclaimed on the front page, outrage from the previous day, understandably undiminished. Because Maurice Smith, self-confessed multiple rapist, had been freed on a legal technicality, in spite of his confession, in spite of testimony from his young victims, in spite of months’ of police work.
How could it happen? The victims' families, their MP's, all demanded an enquiry. But no matter how many voices were raised in a clamour for justice, this case was over. Maurice Smith was free to rape again.
'And now he's dead, murdered.' Rafferty flung the yellowing newspaper he had brought from Smith's flat onto the table in the newly set-up Incident Room
