Dear Diary
My poor darling Mac, what she has been through these past days ...
She came to me with a tale of a death at a factory that she thought was more than an accident – a dreadful accident – and her reaction was different – though when she told me what had happened to the victim perhaps I wasn't surprised – pulled into a machine by her hair ...
The victim, Daisy, was pushed into the machine during a fight with another worker and it wasn't intentional, but Mac was in love with Daisy and she couldn't tell anyone, not even me though I have long known Mac wasn't interested in a male lover.
She had to put up with the factory owner (Gaskin) his sniping sister (Joyce) and slimy manager (Coglan) they were quite the group. Mac was giving the owner treatment for a heart condition, daily injections, one of which was tampered with and it led to his death and her arrest. Joyce Gaskin was having an affair with Coglan and together they were running the factory at night making components for something other than what the factory is known for, a side business, they didn't kill Gaskin.
Dot went in undercover as a tea lady and uncovered enough, the woman who had the argument with Daisy told Jack about Mac's helping the girls to get access to family planning further piling the evidence against her, and the hospital suspended her – Aunt P passed that news on, together with her less than complimentary feelings about her lifestyle. I expect the hospital board consists of old society fossils who are more concerned with outward appearances than treating some of the desperate folk Mac sees.
It was the other tea lady, Hetty, who killed Gaskin and had the argument with Daisy that led to her death, though if the guard had been in place Daisy wouldn't have died and she framed Mac for Gaskin's murder; she also fought with Dot in the same place and we very nearly lost her – note to self – never try to cut off power with an axe, my fingers are still tingling!
It was all to do with jealousy, so sad, so damned unnecessary and it was the innocent that paid the price, Daisy and Mac, and I suppose Gaskin, though he wasn't particularly nice, he just wasn't involved in any of it, his sister ruled the roost there.
Aunt P had to eat her words and ask Mac to return to her duties at the hospital. Mac will bury herself in her work but I hope she knows she can talk to me, about anything, anytime.
I had a letter from Murdoch Foyle, he offered the truth about Janey in return for my help getting him released on parole; I went to see him but I couldn't agree to help him, not even for Janey. I showed the letter to Jack during our post case drinks, he wouldn't give me advice, or tell me not to do it, he said I would know what to do – I burned the letter, Diary, I will find out, but without Foyle's help – I have Jack.