Car found

Our enquires appear to be showing some reward as we received a call from the Met to say that Jones’s car had been found in one of their car pounds in west London. It had been in a residents parking spot in South Kensington since before Christmas and had been towed away about a month later. It was registered in France which was why they couldn’t trace the owner.

It was only after they searched the interior did a bank statement come to light. A rather healthy one, especially as the car was a battered old 2CV. Car was pretty clean, in the forensic sense apart from a large number of betting slips and race cards. Both UK and French race courses.

Jones’s wife had no idea of his interest in Horse Racing and could not explain his visits to Deuville and Longchamp. She always thought that those trips abroad were to either Cern, which is huge and lies underneath France and Switzerland. Or to the The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble (Twin city of Oxford!) which is a smaller version of the Harwell one. She also had no idea about the bank account that the statement was for. Seems rather bewildered by all the revelations.

Lewis