Mr Blue
Our mutual friend gave me your number.
Amanda Bailey
How do we play this?
Mr Blue
What do you need?
Amanda Bailey
The whereabouts of three minors who passed through Brent social services in 2003. I have no budget.
Mr Blue
Their names?
Amanda Bailey
The Alperton Angels teenagers and baby. Names unknown.
WhatsApp messages between me and Oliver Menzies during the course of our visit to the site of The Assembly, 3 July 2021:
Amanda Bailey
If I get to Alperton and you’re not there, I’m visiting the site on my own. I mean it.
Oliver Menzies
Chill out! On the train approaching the station now.
Amanda Bailey
Me too. We must be on the same train.
Oliver Menzies
Bet these apartments cost a mint.
Amanda Bailey
Imagine discovering your luxury canal-side flat is built on the site of notorious ritualistic deaths
Oliver Menzies
Wouldn’t bother me. Not when I had tube trains roaring past my window every four minutes. We’re here.
Later, after we visited the site:
Oliver Menzies
Stop pissing about.
Oliver Menzies
FFS where are you?