Opposite's Attract - Chapter 2 / Undercover
Millie's POV
Me and Mel followed Max upstairs to the incident room where the three of us sat around the table where Jo and Terry were already sitting and we all had folders full of information waiting for us but as Max explained they want to know what happened with our own words "Well me and Mel were driving around as it was throwing out time then some woman came running in front of us and said there was a woman unconscious in an alleyway so we rushed over there and as I called it into Smithy Mel checked her pulse but she was dead. She had a ripped skirt and was covered in blood so it was impossible to tell what had happened to her, I checked her bad and found her ID" I explained to them.
"OK well I want to keep you two on this case. Terry what do we know about her?" Max asked Terry.
"Well boss we know that she was stabbed multiple time in the chest and abdomen area, Ben and Leon spoke to her family and they say she works as a barmaid at a club called Jacks, this was her weekend off and she went out with two friends called Katy and Stephanie, we're still trying to get hold of them. According to her parents Claire has just split with her boyfriend of three years Chis Jennings and apparently it was a bad split, he had been doing the dirty with someone he worked with. She has no known enemies she's a chatty girl, she's a barmaid so she gets on well with people, she's bubbly and she seems to be a popular girl" He explained.
"Right I want her phone records, bank statement, I want to speak to these girls she went out with last night, look through the CCTV footage and see if she had trouble with someone or if she was speaking to anyone. I want to know who killed this girl and why" He said and we all went to work.
Me and Mel took the CCTV of the Zeo club but the whole time she was there she didn't speak to anyone apart from the girls that she was with so we followed the CCTV outside and seen that she had ended up on her own between walking towards the exit with her friends and getting onto the street which was weird. We looked through the rest of it and seen that she walked towards the alleyway on her own but there was someone following her, I printed off a still image of the guy who followed her and put it through facial recognition but there wasn't a match.
I took what I had found up to Max and he thanked me for the info and said he would pass it on to Terry and Jo and asked if me and Mel could go to the Zeo club and speak to the owner and see who was working last night and if they remembered her or her friends.
When we got to club we found the at the bar doing the nights takings, he looked up at us in shock and put all of his things down "Hello officers, can I help you with something?" He asked looking nervous.
"Yes actually, you are?" Mel asked as I had a little look around.
"I'm the owner Derek Martin… what's the problem?" He asked.
"Do you know a Claire Goodings?" I asked him.
"No, should I?" He asked.
"She was drinking here last night and was found murdered down the road. Do you recognise her?" Mel asked and handed him a picture of her.
He took the photo off Mel and studied it "Yeah I recognise her from last night she was with a couple of friends, they stayed at the bar for most of the night. Her friend was chatting up the one of our bar men all night" He explained.
"OK which one of her friends was talking to the bar man and what bar man was it?" I asked.
He pointed out to her friend Stephanie as the one who was chatting up the barman and the bar man was called Robert Downs, we asked him a few more routine questions before leaving and going back to the station where we told Max what we knew although now it seems like a waste of time.
"Sorry ladies but the investigation has taken a whole new turn" Max said after we told him what we knew "We finally managed to speak to Claire's friend Katy and she told us that Claire has had some unwanted attention from as yet an unknown male, she didn't tell her parents because she didn't want to worry them so but she told Katy and Katy told her to call us but Claire refused to do it. The male that's been giving her unwanted attention like been texting and calling her from a pay as you go phone so we can't trace it but he has been sending her flowers so I've sent Terry and Jo down to the flower shop where they were purchased from to get the CCTV" He explained.
Terry and Jo came back with a hit, it was a guy called Joseph West "This is Joseph 'Joey' West and he has just done a three year stretch in Longmarsh prison for the attempted rape of a girl called Megan smith, it started when he seen her out one night and from then he started hassling her, sending her flowers, showing up at her work, leaving letters for her on her car then when she was walking home one night he grabbed her attempted to rape her and when he was found he had a knife on him and told her he was going to stab her" Terry said.
"Surely we can pull him in?" Mel asked.
"I want to wait on it and see what he does next, he's already killed her and for now he thinks that he has gotten away with it. I think he'll move onto another victim and I really want to do an undercover sting… Mel, Millie are one of you up for a little undercover work?" He asked us.
"Well I'm going home next week for a few days so I can't" Mel answered.
"Millie? What about you?" He asked.
"Yeah I'm up for it" I said.
"Great! OK well I spoke to his last victim and he said that they had met on a night out so tonight I'm going to tail him, see where he goes and we want you to run into him. Speaking to the last victim it sounds like he goes for people who live on his estate so he knows where they are, what they're doing and finds out their routine so we'll need to get you a flat on the Haygarth Estate near his place" Max explained.
I was allowed to go home early so that I could rest and pack some things I would need and moved into my 'new' flat and awaited for the phone call to tell me where to be so I can 'accidentally' run into him and get this undercover mission started!
Three hours later my phone rang and Max's name flashed up "Hello?" I said as I answered.
"Millie your up! He's in Zeo bar and he's just got there so he should be there for a while" He said.
"OK I'm on my way" I said and we hung up.
I got to Zeo bar and made sure the manager from this morning knew that I was undercover and he wasn't to act as if he knew who I was which he agreed to and I made my way over to the target and stood next to him as I waited for someone to serve me, Max said that I was allowed three drinks max so I ordered myself a beer "I like a girl who can do a beer" A voice said to my right, I turned to face him and seen the target "I'm Joey" He said.
"Millie" I said and he shook my hand.
"Do you live around here?" He asked.
"I've just moved into the Haygarth Estate" I told him.
"Really? I live in that estate" He said.
We spent the night talking and I asked him about what he did for a living, how long he had lived in the area, things he liked and didn't like then once I thought I had enough information I left the bar and got into Max's car outside and I told him everything that had happened and what was said between us, he was very impressed with the work I had done with him "Tomorrow at ten am I want you to go to the shop, get the paper and small pint of milk or something and I want you to do that for at least two weeks so he knows it's your routine" He said and I agreed "Don't forget if you want out at any time or if you think that you are in any danger then you just text me the safe word which is 'home' OK?" I nodded and he drove me home.
I knew this investigation was going to be a long one and was going to take at least a month to do I think and that's even if everything goes to plan, if it doesn't it can take much longer and I don't want to have to be speaking to this Joey guy for longer then I had to, he was a right creep.
Reading through it again I realised I had made a couple of mistakes so I've re-uploaded the chapter to correct the mistakes, I don't know if you'll notice them though LOL
