A Moment Of Madness

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David Thomas and Gordon Hines of the Herald Express, Torquay; Detective Sergeant Frank Waghorn and Detective Superintendent Steve Livings of the Avon and Somerset Constabulary; Detective Constable Phil Diss and Detective Sergeant Pat Pitts of the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary.

A uniformed police officer was at her side as she hurried from the house. She moved with an easy elegance, her head slightly bowed. The policeman opened the door of the waiting squad car for her and she stepped inside, sliding effortlessly across the back seat so her escort could sit beside her.

Kelly raised his binoculars to his eyes and focused them on her.

She was staring straight ahead, not looking at anything or anyone. Her short cropped hair was peroxide white. It changed colour almost from day to day, though, he knew that. Like Madonna, she was into changing her image with the wind. Yet this was no international star, no latter-day icon. She had been married to one, that was all. The only fame she had ever achieved in her own right had been when she was just a kid, and hardly anybody even remembered those early movies any more. John Kelly did, but he wasn’t a man who forgot easily. And he reckoned there had always been something about her, an aura almost, that had made her a star too.

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