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Although Jack Culverhouse was far more suited to CID work these days, there was still nothing quite like a good old-fashioned nick. A bit of a chase, a rugby tackle and a face pressed against the concrete. It took him right back to his days on the beat.
He knew he couldn’t get involved in interviewing or charging Ethan. It would look far too bizarre for a CID officer to be processing a small-time drugs arrest, and he didn’t particularly want to have his name on Ethan’s charge sheet. He’d let one of the uniformed officers have the arrest as far as the paperwork went, which would keep his own name off the system.
He’d told the custody sergeant the truth, but had decided to leave out large parts of the story. He mentioned being on the Sholebroke estate and seeing something suspicious in
