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Caroline was shell-shocked. She’d put it all on black, and the winning number couldn’t have been more red. There wasn’t enough evidence to charge, and the CCTV revelation proved it hadn’t been Megan’s car that was used to transport Tom’s body. That alone would mean she’d be unlikely to get an extension on the custody clocks.
They could prove a car bearing Megan Wilkes’s registration plates had headed in the general direction of Cemetery Lane, and they could prove Tom Medland had, at some point, driven and been a passenger in his girlfriend’s car. But they now knew those two cars were not one and the same.
She couldn’t help but feel slightly sick at the sight of Alex Lawson’s smug face as she and Dexter walked past the custody desk.
‘What a waste of bloody time that was,’ he called o
