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The first twenty-four hours of any investigation were crucial, and Caroline felt they’d made decent progress already as she held the team’s Monday afternoon briefing.
‘Alright, so there’s a lot we already know, and a lot we’re still waiting for. Our biggest bet has to be CCTV from the Horse and Jockey pub. I had a look on my way out earlier and there are cameras pointing at the parking spaces across the lane, so they’ll have picked up any cars going in or out. And we know our man must have either gone in or out that way. There’s no other option. It’s an old CCTV system, and they’re still wrestling with it, but the good news is that apparently it does work. It’s looked after by a security company, though, and getting hold of them is proving problematic. Dex, we had news from the SOCOs,
