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Jack arrived at work shortly after eight, knowing the Chief Constable would turn up around half-past. He hoped he could talk him into an extension on Connor French’s custody clock, an extra twelve hours being permissible without having to take the case to a magistrate.
He spent that half an hour pulling his case notes together, even though he’d lain awake for most of the night gathering them in his head. As far as Jack was concerned, they had their man. All they needed to do now was wait for the fingerprinting, blood and DNA results to come back from the knife and they’d be able to charge French.
He knew getting an extension from Hawes shouldn’t have posed too much of a problem, but he wanted to be as prepared as he could be. Besides, if the labs were busy he might have to go in fron
