A week later and the police once again swarmed Hollyoaks village – a place which was fast becoming a regular with the Chester police.
D.C Ethan Scott surveyed his team at work, completely destroying the family flat of Stephen Hay. The missing person's kids sat on the sofa wide eyed. Lucas looked excited at all the commotion he was amongst; Leah just looked scared and worried. An almost perfect mirror image of her mother, who stood a few feet away wrapped up in the arms of her fiancé.
Ethan couldn't believe that this lad was missing, only a few weeks after he had had to say goodbye to such a close friend…
He was worried this was going to turn in to another murder enquiry but with the suspected murderer already inside this created disruption and had potential to bring the case back to square one unfortunately. But as this wasn't a woman who had gone missing it couldn't be connected, could it? Everyone in the village knew what the current missing person had meant to the suspected murderer so it couldn't have been him or anyone connected to him, but then no one really knew how the mind of Brendan Brady worked.
They'd been searching all the places Mr Hay spent time non stop for a week now and so far nothing had been found, all they had to go on was a supposed phone call made to Mr Hay's phone by Warren Fox, but so far they couldn't even get a hold of Warren, not surprising.
Ethan was frustrated at this turn of events and tired of coming up against a thousand dead ends a day, problem solving had never been his speciality, feeling in charge and better than others had been.
He had been to see Cheryl and she had broken down immediately, she seemed to have taken a liking to Mr Hay and by the time he left her, after gaining nothing from her, she was fretting about if she should tell her brother or not, the defendant no doubt would be distraught That would be fun Ethan wondered if he should 'accidentally' mention it to him in passing and watch the fireworks.
"Ethan! What the fuck do you think your doing, why the hell are you laughing?" Amy shout-whispered (to save her kids from getting more distraught) breaking him from his thoughts.
He realised he must have started smirking when he was thinking about Brendan's pain
"No sorry Miss Barnes, I wasn't laughing, well that is I didn't mean to," Ethan replied apologetically "Well we've gathered all we can from here, thank you for letting us in to your home,"
"Please just find him Ethan," Amy pleaded as he and his team left the house
"We will do our very best to find him Amy,"
And they would. If he would be alive was unknown but he was putting off going to the place where'd know for sure for as long as possible.
"Ethan!" One of his team shouted grabbing the young D.C's attention instantaneously "They've found a Chez Chez Hoodie,"
"Where?"
"The woods,"
Ethan gulped