He left. On his own, through the side gate, at some point between four minutes past seven and about half past.
He was eight years old.
He walked out of his grandparents’ property, down a farm track, and out onto a county road in the dark, in June, in one shoe.
What he was walking away from — and who — is in a file.
It has been before a grand jury. It is going before a court in the autumn.
It is not going on this page. Not one detail of it, not now and not ever, and anybody who wants that part can go somewhere else for it.
Dalton has been charged.
He was arrested at about four in the morning on the twelfth of March, at his own house, eleven hours after they brought my son up those stairs.
He has pleaded not guilty. There is a trial date in the autumn.
