by Trevor Negus
He had spent days watching her and had been overjoyed when she completed on the purchase of the secluded Sandford Manor, just outside Sevenoaks in Kent.
He felt that everything was coming together at the right time.
Sam Jamieson had recently completed his master’s in psychology and had been successful in applying for a job at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada.
His life was about to take a complete change of direction, but there was still unfinished business to attend to.
He had purchased the old second-hand car he now sat in from a newspaper advertisement in the Sheffield Star. He had caught the train to Sheffield to pick the vehicle up. The battered Ford Escort had cost the grand sum of one hundred pounds. He had paid cash. Yesterday, he had packed up all his belongings into the two large suitcases that now sat in the boot of the car.
In the glove compartment was a one-way ticket from Heathrow International Airport to Edmonton International Airport. The flight was due to leave at five o’clock that evening.
Yesterday had been an emotional day, as he bade a sad farewell to his daughter at Mansfield Woodhouse cemetery. He had sworn at her graveside that he would fulfil the promise he had made before he left for Canada.
It had been a long road. He had never wavered in his conviction that he would one day achieve justice for his dead daughter.
He glanced down at the clear plastic bag and the plastic tie wraps on the car seat beside him.
He had spent hours studying the forensic techniques employed by murder squad detectives at crime scenes.
He was now dressed in a light blue, fibreless overall. He had overshoes made from the same material, ready to put on his soft-soled shoes. Two pairs of latex gloves on his hands, and a mask to cover his face.
He had selected suffocation as the means to exact his final revenge, as it left the least trace of forensic evidence. He had cleaned the plastic bag and the tie wraps in bleach and had only ever handled them wearing gloves. They had been purchased with cash, along with several other items, from a hardware store in Cambridge that had no CCTV.
He had carefully selected the route from Nottingham to Sevenoaks, avoiding the motorways and their hidden cameras. The final precaution he had taken was to disguise the registration plate on the Ford Escort.
At the airport, he would abandon the car in one of the long-stay car parks, where it would be left to rot and rust.
He glanced at his watch. It was time. He picked up the bag and the tie wraps.
He had no plans for a sophisticated entrance to the property. He knew that the nearest police response was over half an hour away. He would disable the alarm system by severing the electricity supply cables, force entry through a French door at the rear of the property, then go to her bedroom.
Once inside the bedroom, he planned to overpower her, place the bag over her head and secure it with tie wraps. He would stand over her and watch until she gasped her last breath. Only then would his long wait for justice be over. He would be long gone before Rebecca Whitchurch was ever found.
He climbed over the five-bar gate and began walking down the hill, across the moonlit field, towards the secluded house.
After all the years of waiting and preparation, he knew that justice for his beloved Vanessa was now only five minutes away.
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EVIL IN MIND
(Book 1 in the DCI Flint series)
DEAD AND GONE
(Book 2 in the DCI Flint series)
A COLD GRAVE
(Book 3 in the DCI Flint series)
TAKEN TO DIE
(Book 4 in the DCI Flint series)
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TAKEN TO DIE is a work of fiction. People, places, events, and situations are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead is entirely coincidental.
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