It’s twenty years since I first took active steps to try and find the killers of my parents.
A Crown prosecutor for many years, it was slowly dawning on me that what I had been told, professionally, was not what it seemed in many cases.
I started gently, asking for an update on the killings, which had happened twelve years earlier. It might surprise the reader to know that in those twelve years , not one officer in charge had ever contacted me with an update.
My first enquiries were met with the usual obfuscation and it took many months before I had an intelligent response.
That was to tell me almost nothing.
Where was the file? Well, it was clear that it had been put away many years before and no detectivehad given it a second thought in those years.
What followed was a succession of promises from lots…
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