He is not her boyfriend. There is nothing on those recordings that would interest anybody who was looking for that.
He carries a document case. On four of the eleven he leaves with more than he came with.
And on the eighth of January, standing in my hall at twenty past eleven in the morning, he says a sentence to my wife that I have listened to about sixty times.
He says: “Two more and we’ve got enough on him.”
Not on her. On him.
PART 4 — WHAT IT WAS ACTUALLY FOR
Sable Point was Tamsin’s. Her grandmother left it to her in 2011 and she never put it in joint names and there was never a reason to.
When she died it went into a trust for Mina, with the capital released at twenty-five, and me as trustee until then.
It is worth about one point four million dollars.
I assumed, standing in that study at midnight, that the plan was to get my daughter out of this house.
It was not. Or it was, but only as the second step.
The footage was never going to be used to say that Mina was disturbed.
It was going to be used to say that Mina was disturbed in my care.
