Chapter 5: Caught Red Handed

They carried Potter out and put him in Toms boot. Tom then moved his car away from the office door so that Derek could back his car up. Cedric was put in his boot and they both drove out and headed for the garages where they unloaded them, strapped one on the bench and one on a trolley, before sending the message, ‘Two Items In Stock.’

Brian turned up twenty minutes later and they were both still unconscious. He pulled the trolley out of the cupboard, which Cedric was on, and put it alongside the bench. He pulled Cedric’s trousers and undies off, then fitted a canula to both of them.

As each one started to come round, he opened the tap on the canula so that they wouldn’t know it was there. When they were both fully conscious, he told them they had been convicted in a special court of multiple rapes and one attempted rape. ‘But don’t worry,’ he told them, ‘You’re not going to go to prison.’

‘Your sentence,’ he told them, ‘Is to have your cocks and your balls cut off without any anaesthetic. That’s so you will suffer like your victims did. Cedric, you will be done first. Then Potter can listen to your screams of agony before I do the same to him. I will be back in half an hour to carry out the sentence.’

Before they had come round, Brian had loosened the straps on their heads and turned their heads to face each other before fastening them up once more. ‘Whilst you wait, think about all the suffering you have inflicted on so many others.’ He told them. ‘He left the light on so they could stare at each other. They couldn’t speak, being gagged.

‘When he returned half an hour later, they were both dead, having slipped peacefully away as their blood emptied out. Brian put them in a body bag each and sent the message ‘Two Items Ready For Collection.’ He put the two containers of blood in his car to use on his garden and went home.

An hour later Paul backed his van up to the garages, loaded the two body bags and took them home. By the next evening both bodies were set in individual concrete blocks and would, once they had set fully, be added to the foundation of his garden wall.

As Lewis collected his bike and wheeled it out of the gates, there was a lady he didn’t recognise standing waiting. ‘Are you waiting to lock up?’ he asked. When she said, ‘Yes.’ he told her everyone had left early from the quarry office, and he was the last to leave. As he cycled away, he glanced back and saw her locking the gates.

FRIDAY – LEWIS

That evening Lewis rang Gregory. ‘I thought you’d like to know,’ Lewis told him, ‘Cedric and Potter were caught red handed in their office yesterday afternoon, a few seconds before they were about to rape their latest victim.’

‘They have appeared before a special judge today. They got a full life sentence in a very secure unit. You’ll never hear from them again. Anything of theirs still on your premises can be dumped and any wages due are cancelled.’

‘I would suggest that the story is that they just up and left without telling you they were going. I know of four victims at Stoke on Trent and two locally to me. There may well have been other’s too, but we’ll never know.’

‘I will be contacting all the known victims to tell them what happened to their attackers and offering them counselling if they want it.’ ‘I’m glad it’s all over,’ Gregory told him, ‘I can’t thank you enough. If there’s anything I can do for you, or the victims, please let me know.’

‘Only you, Dorothy and the victims know there have been any rapes,’ Lewis told him. ‘For the victim’s sakes, it would be good to keep it that way.’ ‘You can count on it.’ Gregory told him. Lewis next composed a text for all the victims.

‘For your information, earlier this week Mr Cedric and Mr Potter were caught red handed committing a serious crime. Yesterday, at a special non-public court, they were given a full life sentence in a secure unit. Their employer has been told what happened to them and why, but the official line will be that last night they just walked off the job.’

‘No one else will be told what happened to them or why. No one will be told the names of their victims. Both of their phones were confiscated and have been totally destroyed. If any victim would like my help, now or in the future, please contact me on this number. Wishing you well, Lewis.’