The accounts had been inconsistent? Fair enough, he did think he had seen a flash of Anita Longbottom as he had been led away from the scene. And perhaps his children had contradicted some of the accounts.

"Thank you, ser," he said with a nod of gratitute to the sergeant, and he got up.

He arrived at the desk just as the door opened. "T' other constable says I can go," he told the constable at the desk.