Savagely beaten in a frenzied attack – particularly about the head – half-strangled, as Henry had seen at the mortuary. The strangulation had not killed her, but the brain trauma from the assault had. The day before visiting the mortuary he had only half-perused the murder book, but had then read it thoroughly in the early hours of this morning before tumbling into bed with Alison and falling deeply asleep for the next few hours, before taking a convivial breakfast with Flynn. Joe Speakman, the retired detective superintendent, had been SIO in charge of the investigation into the murder of the unidentified female. Henry had got on well with Speakman, who was then one of the four detective superintendents heading FMIT. With all the swingeing cost-cutting going on, the chief constable had been looking at the possibility of reducing the number of superintendents on FMIT from four to three and Henry had been right in his cross-hairs. Slightly ahead of the other three in length of service, he was ripe to be pushed into retirement.
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