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Post date: 16-Dec-2019 18:20:29
When Jonah and I got back from his test drive – which went very well indeed – we were surprised to find a note from Peter saying that he was at the John Radcliffe with Stella Gilbert. It didn’t say much, but we gathered that one of her colleagues had been injured while on duty and Peter had taken her to see how he was. I tried to ring him, but the mobile signal is very poor inside the hospital so I wasn’t surprised it went straight through to voicemail.
It turned out that it was Gavin Hughes’ son, Kenneth who was the victim. Poor Stella had seen him being crushed against a wall as one of a gang of cannabis growers made their getaway in a stolen car. At least that’s what we’re assuming it was. He was assisting in a raid on a house where cannabis was being grown and someone deliberately ran him down. He died of his injuries, despite undergoing emergency surgery. Peter felt obliged to stay with Stella until they heard the news and then to take her home to her grandmother, so we didn’t get to hear the full story until later.
It’s all over the news now – yet another police officer killed in the course of his duty.