Prologue

Stuart Quirk stood over his Second wife’s body slumped on the floor, she was a diabetic and epileptic he knew what he had to do he took the measurements of a sugar level and realise that he was in a state of low sugar requirements, the last thing she needed was an injection of insulin, he looked at his son asleep in the cot and thought sod it I’ve had enough he drew enough insulin knowing it will be enough to kill her then he injected her with the insulin.

The trouble with insulin it’s not as in the movies you inject and they die straight away it takes time, and as he sat there drinking his tea he thought no I’m not a murderer I’ve got to give her one more chance, And with that he drew up the antidote to the insulin and injected her with it and called for an ambulance.

The ambulance arrived as they did in the past in fact he was on first name terms with many of the ambulance drivers as this was not a unusual occurrence. Lucy has been a diabetic and an epileptic since she was three years of age and never really got control of her conditions, when he met Lucy he felt sorry for her, he was always a good listener and listening and talking lead to one thing and another, He has his own problems with his first wife. Now Lucy Was giving him a headache, she also walked out on him but this time left the Son with him, Lucy being Lucy even managed to screw that up in the end the children’s court ended up taking his son off the pair of them and placing him up for adoption, he hated Lucy for that venomously hating her she knew where to put the knife in and twist, she knew that he had just lost his son stepson and daughter, to a family in Merseyside who let’s say we’re not adverse to having the police knock on the door every now and again due to beer drink drugs or even violence.

Seeing Lucy in the street he went up to her and shouted as loud as he could,” if I ever see your face again I will fucking kill you” possibly the whole High Street heard his venomous remark. He was so angry he could’ve punched her right in the face where she stood, and that smirk he could’ve literally cut it out of her face, it was if she was saying to him well if I can’t have our son nor can you, she was quite happy to have him adopted he was itching to take out the Stanley knife in his pocket and cut that smirk off her face, however there were too many people around so he just reverted to the shouting and threading her. Then walked away thinking no more about it.

Then that evening a knock came on the door and they stood two police officers, good evening sir the officer said you are under the arrest for the murder of Lucy ... then the normal you do not have to say anything ect. He was stunned yes he wanted to kill her yes he should of killed her, then the thought of what he had said in the High Street that day came back to his mind how was he going to explain that he did not kill Lucy. To be fair the police officers were really nice they told him after they had read him his rights that this was just a formality as they did have another suspicion about her death they didn’t even handcuff him along as he promised he would cooperate with the ride to the police station.

At the police station with a solicitor by his side the police began asking routine questions, and yes the shouting in the High Street earlier that day had come up, and he tried to explain that it was just a figure of speech that deep down in his heart he could’ve killed on the spot it was just for words. At this point the police officer ended the conversation and turned off the recording tape, again the officer was quite

pleasant And told him not to worry that they suspected something else and there was an emergency autopsy being done as they were talking, he said don’t worry about it too much and would you like something to eat and a cup of tea, he explained he couldn’t say too much just in case the suspicion was wrong however he said you may well be going home quicker than what you expect. With that his solicitor said well I’m going home now should you need me later on please get the police officer to ring me back and I will be back Before you’re questioned again.

A little while later the cell door opened, he was told that he was being de arrested, and was free to go he asked what was the cause of her death, the police told him that the autopsy had reported that she had a overdose of insulin in her system probably due to her diabetes and the authorities were well aware that she was poorly controlled with her diabetes, her death would be recorded as accidental.

Accidental my foot He thought to himself as he left the police station, she had taken her own life but it puzzled him as to why. She was found at his cousins house apparently having no fixed abode. A little of him actually felt sorry for her but now life has to go on forward.

Josie his first wife had walked out and him taking two children with her, one which he was not the father to but had adopted him and the other his son, They were only four and three old when she had left the home in the middle of Wales to return to her mothers house back in Merseyside.

There was something a bit criminal about Josie’s family, the father died many years ago leaving the oldest lad Johnny more less being the breadwinner dealing with many of the problems, Josie was one of the big problems she smoked drank and spent very little time in school. He was no angel in self in fact when she walked out on him he’d already been in trouble with the law and was serving a community service order which he was really annoyed about because he could not leave the home they had set up together in the middle of Wales to go back to Merseyside to try and coax Josie back.

To him it was just a silly row something he said in the heat of the moment something even to this day he regrets. However in later years he obtained evidence that this was true.

... Anyone would think he was the father to Leon, well he’s not I am his legal father I adopted him, The words just came out, he was annoyed that Johnny had travelled nearly 200 miles, to visit Leon yet again Bring him more sweets. One of the reasons he fought to move to the middle of nowhere in Wales was to get away from Johnny, to make Josie stand on her own two feet, instead of Johnny this and Johnny that.

Because he was still under a court order, he had to complete his community service which the courts had ordered him to do, he didn’t really want to leave the house that morning on a row however it couldn’t be late for this community service otherwise it would mean serving a lump inside, and he didn’t want to serve a lump. The boys were upstairs playing in the room joyfully, unaware of the row he just had with Josie he kiss them both and told them to be good boys for the Mum and said he would see them later, Little was he to know that would be the last time he would ever see them again.

When he arrived home after his community service, she had gone, at first he thought it was just to the shops but that was strange as the food cupboard was full. he was puzzled but waited a short time but after the shops are closed he realised that she’s gone, he was frustrated and wondered where the silly bitch had gone, Only to be told by neighbour that Saint Johnny had been down and they have gone back to their home in Merseyside. These were the days where there is no mobile phones no Internet you’re doing well if you had a house phone, And Johnny’s family did not have a house phone. He was stuck between a rock and a hard place he had another session of community service to do in the morning I just couldn’t drop everything and return to Merseyside to talk to Josie.

When he arrived for his community service his probation officer pull him to one side, there was a telephone call for him, it was from a solicitor who was acting on behalf of Josie and her family, he told him that Josie would not be returning and advised for him to get a solicitor from self and that in the meantime a restraining order had been put in place to prevent him from returning to Merseyside to make any contact with Josie or his sons, add insult to injury he was told that she was also pregnant.

His probation officer was a 35 year old black woman who’s name he could never say or remember, at times he could never figure out if she was flirting with him, she would bend over a desk or bend over to pick something off the floor, and he could see her bright red knickers under that skimpy black dress that she always wore but with being his probation officer he always tried to curtail his thoughts, but for a black woman she was a very sexy looking lady, and he often wondered if why she was a probation officer. Although he had heard many a story about her that she was a mean bitch if crossed He sat in the room, while his probation officer Was on the phone she was sending staff here there and everywhere and also ending some important calls that’s to made. He slipped his wedding ring off as he knew his marriage was over, and stuck the ring in his pocket.

In a world of his own with his hands on his head thinking what next when he heard the answer machine being put on “ I am out of the office until further notice I will not be able to be reached should be important please ring the alternative number at the end of this message otherwise please leave your message at the end of the tone ... beeeeeeeeep She turned to him and told him that he would be completing the rest of his community service for that day with her. That was strange as the community service normally involved painting fences digging ditches, picking up litter in public places or doing some other work within the Community normally with a group of other villains or First time misdemeanours you never normally worked alone.

Again as she reached her arms in the air to put her jacket on her dress slid up revealing the edge of her red knickers, he couldn’t work out whether it was deliberate or just an accident. He took it as an accident surely this sexy black lady wasn’t flirting with him was she, After all she was his probation officer and 10 years his senior She walked down the stairs open the door onto the High Street, and he followed She stopped and made sure the door to the office was secure then taken to steps to the left she took some keys out of her handbag and opened the adjacent door it was a door to the flat above the shop next door. This is my flat she smiled and I’m never late for work again she giggled as she said with a curled finger she telling him to follow her, her teeth shone White like the keyboards of a piano, as she said you will be doing some work for me today.