Page 87 of The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
Yes, he was quite the local face.
Text messages between me and A&E nurse Penny Latke, 16 July 2021:
Amanda Bailey
When you treated Holly in A&E that night, did she mention the dead angels in the warehouse?
Penny Latke
Eeeeeeeeeeek! So excited to help with your book!
Amanda Bailey
Trying to get to the bottom of who, exactly, made the 999 call that led police to the basement.
Penny Latke
How cool would that have been? But no, it wasn’t us. I didn’t even hear about it till I saw it on telly. When is your book out?
WhatsApp messages between me and Oliver Menzies, 16 July 2021:
Amanda Bailey
Got an interesting discrepancy regarding who exactly found the angels’ bodies. Looks like it was Gray Graham, but no formal record of it.
Oliver Menzies
If it had been Gray, he’d have bored everyone with the tale every Christmas party.
Amanda Bailey
More than that, it was national news. He could’ve sold his eyewitness account.
Oliver Menzies
First rule of journalism: don’t become the story. It never ends well.
Amanda Bailey
To document and broadcast an experience like that. It’s in the public interest.
Oliver Menzies
Why would he even have been there before the police?
Amanda Bailey
If he couldn’t adequately explain why, he might have kept quiet.
Amanda Bailey
Because he was breaking the law some other way himself. Or feared being implicated. Or simply didn’t want to compromise the source of his local leads. His living depended on it.
Oliver Menzies
I say again: why would he have been there? A derelict building on a rundown industrial estate?
Amanda Bailey
