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story to Todd as he continued to wipe his hands up and down his trouser leg. He told Todd that he had a day off work and had arranged to meet up with Mandy and go out for a walk in London. Tony informed Todd that they often went for walks in London, it was one of Mandy's favourite past times.
    "She wanted to be a model," Tony explained. "She thought she would get spotted if she walked around London. We always go up to Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, Soho." Tony paused and looked at the floor before giving a loud sigh and starting again; "Hyde Park, Kensington, Chelsea. Harrods; she loved to go to Harrods, was absolutely convinced that someone would spot her there. Then we used to go to..." Tony continued to reel off place names in London. In ordinary circumstances Todd would have butted in and asked Tony to get on with his story, considering he was in shock at his findings this morning and feeling very sorry for the snot filled man in front of him, Todd decided to allow the soliloquy to continue. Eventually Tony's voice trailed away to nothing and he sat with his head hung low, lips mouthing the well-known London streets over and over again.
    "Tony." Todd finally cut in.
    "Yes?"
    "I know you've had a terrible shock." Tony guffawed at Todd's statement, Todd continued; "It has been really tough for you, but we need to know what happened if we have any chance at all of finding out who did this to Amanda."
    "Mandy, she liked to be called Mandy." Tony informed Todd.
    "Mandy, sorry, please tell me what happened when you got to the flat today Tony?" Todd gently asked him.
    "Well I came around as I always do; we were going to go for a walk in London as I said. I have a key to her flat, we were starting to get serious, I may have moved in you know?" Tony looked up at Todd, tears beginning to form in his eyes once more.
    "Please," Todd said, "Carry on."
    "I let myself in; there's no point knocking on the door, Mandy spends forever getting ready and she wouldn't bother with the door if she was putting on an eyelash or straightening something. So I let myself in, shouted her name, looked around, went in her bedroom and found... found.... Her" Tony once again put his head in his hands, a fresh batch of snot making its way from his nose to the floor.
    "Was the flat disturbed in any way?" Todd asked. "Is it usually this messy or is this unusual?"
    "No, no she wasn't very tidy; it's always a little messy." Tony looked around; "I can't see anything out of place. I really don't know, sorry."
    Sensing he wasn't going to get any further useful information from Tony, Todd decided to get searching the flat to see if he could come up with any evidence from address books, diaries or even discarded business cards that may be lying around the flat. He asked one of the uniformed officers to take Tony away to the police station so a formal statement could be made and then set about searching the front room for any clues.
    "Guv we are ready to move her body if you're finished." Michael stood in the doorway of the living room.
    "Yes that's fine, have all photographs been taken?"
    "Yes and she has been un-cuffed from the headboard."
    "Go for it, get the poor mare out of here, and let me know if you find anything that may give me a clue where to start looking please because I haven't got a fucking clue." Todd grimaced. "Who does that to someone?"
    "It's a sick world." Michael agreed before turning to complete his job in the bedroom. Todd looked around the front room, picking up magazines and searching them for clues; his latex gloves making the job of turning the pages very difficult. "Candace." He shouted.
    "Yes Guv?" Candace poked her head in from the hallway.
    "Get in here please, we need to go through all this shit, there must be some clue as to who she was meeting today; it doesn't look like the flat has been broken into, it must have been someone she knew and was happy to let into the flat."
    "Yes Guv," Candace entered and began to search the