'Not to Neil Vamen it doesn't.' Once again, Berrin and I looked at each other. 121 This certainly put a new angle on the whole thing. The gentleman gangster. 'You're telling us she was Neil Vamen's girlfriend?' He nodded. 'That's what Shaun said.' 'Christ/ said Benin. 'No wonder he wanted it kept quiet. Do you think Vamen found out?' 'I don't know. Honestly.' 'How did Shaun meet her?' 'I heard she used to work as an escort girl for this agency Roy Fowler runs called Heavenly Girls. Maybe that's how he met her.' I raised my eyebrows. This was an interesting one. We hadn't realized that one of Fowler's sidelines was managing a brothel. Berrin finished writing in his notebook and looked up. 'Neil Vamen's married, isn't he?' McBride shrugged. 'Yeah, he is, and his missus is a looker too, but you know what blokes are like. Especially ones with money. Everyone knows he plays away from home.' Berrin looked across at me, waiting to see what came next. It was difficult to know what more we could ask McBride, or whether what he'd told us was enough to get him off the hook.
