4. 3 Worry and frustration
MY CRIMINAL CAREER (PART 3)
(Continued from previous posts.)
I spent a lot of time with the family, being the point of contact between them and the team that were investigating the disappearance. As time went on and Ian still did not return home, we started to get more and more anxious that he might have been abducted or else had some sort of accident. House to house enquiries drew a blank and there were very few responses to appeals in the local paper and on the radio for witnesses to come forward. I began to feel very helpless having to go back to Jenny time and time again to tell her that we were no further forward.
Then I noticed that the youngest boy, Anthony, was looking particularly uncomfortable and kept starting to speak and then being interrupted by Paul. I tried to get him on his own to ask him what was bothering him, but it was a small house and he stayed very close to James, the second youngest, who was the only other one still at Primary School. In the end, I confided to Inspector Murdishaw my suspicions that Anthony might know more than he was letting on.
Murdishaw grilled all the boys – for the third or fourth time – but they all insisted that they knew nothing at all about where Ian might have gone after school or who his mysterious friend might be. I began to think that I was imagining things and that I’d made a bit of a fool of myself with Murdishaw.