"Yes Guv." Nate couldn't have rushed out of CID quick enough. He ran down the stairs so fast, he knocked the papers out of Jo's hands. "Sorry Jo..." You could hear from a slight distance.
"Jo. Terry. What you got?" Neil said in a pleasant tone
"The victim is non- cooperative at all Guv. It does seem she's hiding something. She said she went out with 4 of her work colleagues last night to the Freedom bar in Soho."
"Freedom club? That's distant."
"Yeah she said it was opening night at the club. Her friends wanted to go. But I'm not so sure she wanted to go there. Maybe something or someone she's avoiding I couldn't tell you governor."
"Right thanks Terry. We need to get that CCTV from the Freedom club. You wanna take some uniform down there and pick it up... I think Tony and Ben are free now."
Both Terry and Jo. "Guv."
Nate and Mel had arrived on the Larkmeade estate, and were heading towards Mr Anderson's home. Nate placed three large and heavy knocks on his door. "PC Roberts. PC Ryder. What can I do for you?" Mel and Nate grabbed their hats from their heads; and stepped inside the flat; Anderson slowly closed the door behind them. "Mr Anderson. We just wanted to know did you go out anywhere last night?"
"Why am I a suspect in this assault against Holly Berkshire?" Anderson snapped
Mel gently and discreetly whispered Nate's name to him, she wanted him to treat Jack Anderson as a witness not a suspect. "No. You're not a suspect Mr Anderson. We just want to eliminate you from our enquiries."
"Well I can tell you I was here from 8PM onwards off-ic-er!" Jack Anderson said smirkly to Nate.
"Thank you Mr Anderson. We'll see ourselves out." Mel tugged at Nate and dragged him by the wrist out of the flat. "Nate what the HELL were you playing at then? He is not a suspect as yet."
"Who are you to judge me Mel? I just think he's involved in this assault." Nate said angrily to her.
"Yeh well whether you do. There is no evidence to support your suspicions though are there?" Nate could see that Mel was right, but that wasn't going to stop him.
Jo and Terry had just arrived at the Freedom club in Soho; along with PC's Stamp and Gayle. The owner of the club was stood there behind the bar, helping himself to a glass of whiskey. "Excuse me I'm DC Jo Masters, these are my colleagues DC Perkins; PC Stamp and PC Gayle Sun Hill Police." Tony and Ben started searching around the bar for clues; anything that could indicate why the victim was there.
"Yes of course. I'm the owner Andrew Jackson. How can I help you officers?"
"We believe a young woman named Holly Berkshire was in here last night with her friends?" Terry explained
"Well I couldn't tell ya. There were a lot of people in here last night. It was opening night after all." Andrew explained
"We'll need a copy of that CCTV from last night please Mr Jackson." Jo said impolitely
Jackson went on through the back to get one of his employees to collect the CCTV clips. Tony shouted over to Jo and Terry. He'd found Holly's ID card under a table. "This say's her name is Alexandra Johnson."
"A false name, what would she need a false name for?" Jo asked
"I think it's time we spoke to the victim again." Terry said
Down at St Hughs, Holly was discharging herself. A strange, tall figure stood behind her, a grin etched across her face. It seemed that this figure knew her well; and she knew him. Could this be the something Holly was hiding from the police?
The Sun Hill team started to crack down on the case; all apart from two of course. Jo and Terry were trailing through the Freedom club CCTV; Nate and Mel were checking upon Mr Anderson, and Smithy and Stevie were getting a little intimate in his office for the third time that week.
Body to body contact. What a feeling it was. Smithy and Stevie were still in that cutsy- can't keep their hands off each other phase. It had been like this for months now; and only last week they told each other they loved one another. Their relationship was more than just sex every other night now- it was love.
"Smithy can you keep hands up here? Thank you." Stevie grinned as she pulled her lips away from his. "Right. Thanks for that Stevie. Now come on we need to get upstairs, before anyone suspects anything." He grabbed her by the hand and they wandered upstairs to CID together.
Jo and Terry were showing DI Manson the CCTV clips of Holly Berkshire they found on the disk. "Guv it seems that Holly is lying, about who she was out with last night. Terry explained "PC Roberts do you recognise this man here." As Neil pointed to the stilled image on the computer screen; Nate's facial expression turned into desperation to help the victim. "Yeh Guv... It's one of the witnesses from this morning on the Larkmeade. A Mr Jack Anderson. The underage sex convict." "She arrived in the club at 20:53PM. And she left at 23:41PM, with that Mr Anderson. That's around just less than 3 hours." Jo explained logging it into her book.
"Smithy there you are. You got any officers free? We need the victim arresting." Neil explained
"On what grounds Neil?" Smithy asked looking a little fazed.
"Using a false name to gain entrance to a high profile club."
"Right. I'll get down to St Hughs to arrest her, along with Stevie. But are you sure about this, due to her being a victim?"
"Yes Smithy I'm sure." Smithy sent Neil a slight knowing nod his way; as to say it will or can be done. "Right come on Moss. We've got a job to do." Stevie ran a little behind Smithy; and pulled her coat of the rack...
