Thank you my kind reviewers for not accusing me of heresy in the last chapter. Back to Harry's views on the matter.
22.30 pm 6 May 2012. The interrogation of Mary Kane, held in a safe house pending the completion of the remaining extradition paperwork, has confirmed the names and involvement of the group responsible for the Liverpool bombing, also given are the contact details of those who supplied the explosives and related bomb making equipment. Even more satisfactorily she has been persuaded to disgorge the details of her embryonic nationwide organisation dedicated to aggressive action in support of the unborn.
Mary Kane's extradition and handover to the CIA was completed at 10.00pm our time. Despite our request that she be transferred to a state that does not impose the death penalty was refused and she has been returned to Florida where a capital sentence has already been passed down.
As MI5 can only detain but not arrest the information relating to offences in the UK has now been handed over to Special Branch. This was following a preliminary check by Malcolm Wynne Jones to confirm that the information given by Ms Kane was accurate. The arrests of the main perpetrators are imminent with others to follow as her network is taken down. Given its size and potential for mayhem and murder this will take up considerable time and manpower. The paper work to support the subsequent prosecutions will be forwarded after tomorrow's debrief. It will be sometime before we will know whether the prosecution will require any of my officers to give evidence in court.
For once we have obtained the Holy Grail of intelligence work: a result in which everyone, more or less, got what they wanted. Other than Ms Kane and her associates who, with luck and a sensible jury, will get what they deserve. Normally I'd be concerned about the identity of the presiding judge when the Liverpool trio are finally hauled into the dock. I know from bitter experience the twisted decisions the bench can produce regarding human rights. This time I don't think I have to worry. Those members of the judiciary who given half a chance to channel their inner Judge Jeffries will certainly disapprove of murder. As for the liberal tendency somehow I don't see their representatives hurrying to defend the views of a set of religious fanatics whose ultimate aim is to deny women their reproductive choices. I'm somewhat less happy about having been forced to send Ms Kane to her death. I'm salving my compromised conscience with the thought that given the nature of the American system with the appeals, the delays, and in her case the pregnancy, she stands a good chance of dying from old age before the electric chair comes calling.
In the current moment, while Ms Kane wings her way back to captivity in the land of the free, Special Branch are masterminding several arrests under the efficient aegis of Keith Burns. Having obtained his declared wish to get his hands on the bastards who killed Karen and Sarah Lynott he's taken charge with alacrity. With a young child of his own at home this was personal.
So after a gruelling few days we can all go home and sleep comfortably in our beds, secure in the knowledge that tomorrow is another day.
New day, new threat.
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