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I say you go home.” He drew up a knee and straddled it across her thighs. “Now I try the goods.”
    He reached a hand beneath her skirt and Grazyna tried to squirm free but he pushed himself down more firmly and squashed her further into the bedding.
    She wriggled even harder. “No, please no.”
    He hooked his fingers through the waistband of her knickers and yanked. Her knickers snapped.
    “No,” she cried out louder.
    Skender viced her jaw again. “Scream, and you fucking die!”

Seven
     
    “I think James Green is more calculating than we give him credit for.” Scarlett was addressing members of both syndicates who were clustered around her and Tarn’s desk. DI Taylor-Butler was among them. He had drawn up a chair and had his daily journal open across his lap. He was fiddling with his pen and unlike the other members of the HSCU his face showed no emotion. She continued, “I thought at first his attacks were impulsive, in as much as he cycled around, especially through the university grounds, until he spotted his victim, checked it was quiet, then dumped his bike, hid among the trees or bushes and struck as they passed.” Pausing, she checked a few faces. The DI’s face still bore a dead-pan look. “As I say, that’s what I first thought. Now I believe that’s not the case.”
    “What makes you say that, Serge?” Ella Bloom asked. Slightly built with short white-blonde hair and elfin-like features, she had the appearance of being a lot younger than her twenty-six years, making her a no-brainer for the undercover work.
    Scarlett replied, “Since we charged him I’ve been going back through the evidence, especially the video interviews. If you recall, our first two victims were just groped by him, in as much as he ran up behind them and grabbed their breasts and then fled. But the third girl” – she glanced down at some notes she had made – “twenty-one-year-old Adelle Harrison, was also grabbed from behind, but on this occasion he put his hand over her mouth and dragged her towards some bushes. Thankfully, she managed to fight him off by back-heeling his shins – something she’d learned in self-defence classes. As he let go she screamed and he took off.” Scarlett looked back up. “Although the light was fading she managed to get a glimpse of him and she said in her interview that she thought she had seen him before, although she couldn’t place him.” Scarlett gazed down at her notes again. “And then we have the two rapes, both girls again grabbed from behind, their mouths covered and dragged into bushes. On these two occasions they both had knives put to their throats and were told to be quiet or he would kill them. The first girl, twenty-year-old Claire Ridgewell, froze completely and kept her eyes shut throughout the whole ordeal. She’s one of the girls who has been unable to carry on with her courses and gone back to her home in Maidstone. The second girl, nineteen-year-old Penny Wilkins, got a good look at him, and although he had a scarf covering his mouth she also thought she had seen him somewhere before.” Scarlett paused again, taking in the thoughtful expressions on some of the faces. “If you also remember, although Claire kept her eyes closed she thought she heard clomping sounds as he ran away afterwards. When we arrested Green, following his attack on Ella, he was wearing cycling shoes with cleats attached, which you will recall gave off a clomping noise as he walked. And finally, we have our witness, Emma Caroll, who saw a cyclist on two occasions at the main entrance, who she describes as being in the act of repairing a puncture. On the second occasion she was very suspicious, because she thought he appeared to be looking around rather than working on his bike. This is the witness who picked out Green from the video identification parade.”
    DI Taylor-Butler spoke, “As you’ve pointed out DS Macey, we know all this. And so, your point is?”
    Scarlett could feel