Every time my brother-in-law drove me home, I would black out and wake up sore. My husband just laughed and said I was out of shape. After the fourth trip, I hid a voice recorder in my purse — and that night I heard a phone call that made me realize the blackouts had never been accidents.

And six weeks later his brother handed me an opened bottle of water in a car park at twenty to ten at night and told me I looked finished.
PART 5

Esteban was arrested on the Monday of the fourth week, at about seven in the morning, at his mother’s house.

Aurelio was arrested the same day.

And Vonda Prewitt four days after that, at her office on Carrow Street, which I am told took about eleven minutes.

I did not do any of that myself.

I handed a recording and a file to Birgit Hanrahan on a Tuesday morning. She handed it to people whose job it is.

And then I did not sleep properly for about eleven days and I lost four kilos without trying.

There are charges running in three different directions and more than one agency involved.

I am not going to set any of it out on this page. It is not finished, there is a date in the spring, and Birgit has asked me not to.