D-I RAPSEY: Ms Mance? The unregistered informant?
DSS FARADAY: Correct.
D-I RAPSEY: We’ll revisit this. Moving on. Let’s talk about the night.
DSS FARADAY: This’ll be the third time.
INSP. PAYNE: Don’t be an arse, detective. You’re in serious trouble here. This isn’t about dry-cleaning on the house or free screws.
D-I RAPSEY: What time did Ms Mance arrive?
DSS FARADAY: Just before Howie went for his walk. Around noon.
D-I RAPSEY: What did they talk about?
DSS FARADAY: The usual. Nothing. Howie didn’t talk business to her.
D-I RAPSEY: So how did she know his business?
DSS FARADAY: She didn’t. All she knew was that the pick-up was going to be at Howie’s.
D-I RAPSEY: So Howard’s on his walk? What then?
DSS FARADAY: Dennis rang. Said he was coming around. Eight-thirty sharp.
D-I RAPSEY: You were listening?
DSS FARADAY: It sounded like Dennis. It still sounds like Dennis.
D-I RAPSEY: Dennis been to Howard’s place before? DSS
FARADAY: Not while we were on him, no.
D-I RAPSEY: Didn’t think it strange Dennis suddenly decides to visit Howard?
DSS FARADAY: They’re brothers. Their mother needs to go into a home and she doesn’t want to. Howie takes her side. Dennis is on the phone to Howie for weeks trying to talk him round and he’s getting nowhere. No, I didn’t think it was strange he wanted to see Howie.
INSP. PAYNE: Your people made a positive ID of Dennis when he showed up?
DSS FARADAY: Good as they could. Mackie knew him. His car. Tinted glass. We took pictures. We’ve enhanced them. Looks like him.
INSP. PAYNE: But they didn’t get a good look at him.
DSS FARADAY: They saw him for about thirty seconds. He drove up, the garage door opened, he drove in.
D-I RAPSEY: Opened?
DSS FARADAY: It’s a high-security building. You need a remote control with your own code to open the garage door. Or someone in the building can press a button and open it.
D-I RAPSEY: So someone was watching for Dennis?
DSS FARADAY: They knew when to expect him.
D-I RAPSEY: Who was on duty?
DSS FARADAY: Mackie and Allinson.
D-I RAPSEY: You didn’t think this was important enough for you to be there?
DSS FARADAY: No. Mackie knew Dennis. He knew Dennis better than I did. What would me being there help?
D-I RAPSEY: And with hindsight?
DSS FARADAY: With hindsight, I should have spent twenty-four hours a day on the job instead of just twenty.
D-I RAPSEY: Let’s go on. Mackie rang you.
DSS FARADAY: Correct. I was asleep.
D-I RAPSEY: What did he say?
DSS FARADAY: He said Dennis’d turned up.
D-I RAPSEY: And you said?
DSS FARADAY: I said: So?
D-I RAPSEY: Mackie suggested a tail on Dennis when he left. What was your response?
DSS FARADAY: I said no.
D-I RAPSEY: Didn’t even consider it? Five kilos of smack up there, brother shows up on short notice.
DSS FARADAY: Dennis is clean, no history, no connections. Rotary clean. In the time we covered him, he did nothing. He thinks Howie made his money on the stockmarket. He’s not going to courier smack for Howie.
D-I RAPSEY: So Dennis drives off. When did Mackie call you again?
DSS FARADAY: Nine o’clock. Just after.
D-I RAPSEY: The reason?
DSS FARADAY: He was worried about a call Howie made as Dennis came out.
D-I RAPSEY: Listened to it?
DSS FARADAY: I’ve listened to it.