Nearby, it had been an uneventful shift so far PC 42 Neil who should have been at home with his wife and 6 kids, but her mother was visiting.

So, for the cost of a couple of cod fillets, he'd switched shifts with Bert Hailey and wasn't dealing with Agnes and her snide remarks: her daughter should have married a banker, not a dirty policeman... Instead he was telling drunks to move on and chasing urchins who thought his helmet was an ideal slingshot target.

Approaching the brothels and the boarding houses, Neil always felt a tinge of pity for these woman when he was found this way. Forced to sell themselves to earn a living, surely there was a better way? but he suspected there wasn't