I Don't Need You?
This is my first attempt at writing a New Tricks fanfiction. Or any fanfiction fro that matter. I hope you enjoy it even if it is somewhat predicable in places. Feel free t comment without being too cruel. Disclaimer: A as much as I wish I did I do not own New Tricks or any of the characters.
The re-investigation into Josua Bradbury's murder should have been a routine clean up for the crack team that is UCOS. Maybe if they hadn't been clutching at straws when it came to finding witnesses it would have been.
It was 3:15 in the afternoon and the third day into the investigation. So far all they were able to drum up was the fact that the original murder team's prime suspect's fingerprints did not match those on the knife used to kill Josua Bradbury. Hence the reason for the new investigation. Brian Lane Stared at the computer screen trying to find links between the victim's lifestyle and his brutal death. Reading various media reports from the said murder in 1977, one name kept cropping up over and over again; Paul Caudwell. Could this have been the break through the team were looking for? "Here, Gerry, I think I may have found something." The northerner called to the only other person in the room. "What is it Brain?" Gerry Standing called as he left his desk to see what his colleague had discovered. By now the ever expert Brian had highlighted Paul Caudwell's name twenty seven times on nine separate documents, all claiming he was at the crime scene pretty much immediately after the killing. "Paul Caudwell" Brian began "absent from the case files but larger than life in the local and national papers that reported on the Bradbury murder".
"What, the original team failed to pick up on this?" Like Brian Gerry was confused.
"The investigation reached a dead end before these were published. They got nowhere in the first 48 hours and by then a serial killer in Bow had struck again killing a 19 year old girl. The MI squad quickly changed its priorities bigger fish to fry and all that. What I don't understand is that how come this Caudwell chap did not come forward to the police." Gerry scan read the article Brian had open, finding the answer to his friend's question; "because he was 16" he said pointing to the computer screen.
"That's funny the Daily Mirror is the only paper both local and national to mention the boys name" Brian quipped.
"Well the Guv and Jack will be back any minute so we can fill them in and then talk to our star witness".