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Denton (continued)
Even though the doubts remained Denton tried to continue on as best he could. All was well until he & his fellow officers attended a colleague’s boisterous stag night, in the city.
By the evening everyone was pretty damn drunk, after beginning the session at lunch time. They had started in the Bore’s Head, which had always been “a CID pub”. Later the group had traveled by coach to a nearby hired social club. It was a private function, only coppers present. The beer flowed & eventually the mouths opened. Denton could handle it & he wasn’t one to lose it. The Department, like most, had people of ambition, who coveted positions of higher rank held by others they considered to be incompetent. Soon the arguments & abuse flew through the air, like furniture in a domestic quarrel. Whitlow had spilt beer on Rictor & then it started, like it can. It was all over in a flash & whilst many were too wasted to notice what was actually said, before the guy that mouthed it was effectively silenced (physically knocked out), Denton heard. It was conformation that the rope had in fact been a plant. Sadly, but in truth conveniently for some, Officer Whitlow (who had drunkenly spilt the beans, after he had deliberately spilt the beer) was shot dead, along with Sergeant James, soon after. Together they walked in on armed burglars, whilst called to a suspected break-in. And that.... was the end... of that.....until it was noted that Jenkins had been visited in prison by Denton & then (so to speak) alarm bells started to ring.
If you can plant a rope, to enable a successful
conviction, you can plant anything on anyone.
Perhaps do anything to anyone! ...
...wrote Denton.
Denton was stripped of his badge, suspended with pay, until the internal investigation. They found him guilty on two counts: 1. For being caught “using & in possession of a class “A” drug; & 2.“For using & in possession of a class “A” drug, whilst on Police duty”. Traces of cocaine were found on his work clothes, in his car, at his home & (god knows how?) in his blood stream. It’s true that he had been stressed at work over the last month or so, that proceeded his arrest. And it was also true that many had witnessed his somewhat agitated behavior, but it was only because he had been worried about what to do & who to trust!
What if Whitlow & James’ deaths were
carried out by the same people who had
“fitted up” Jenkins? Did this affair go that deep?
What would they do if I spoke out?
So it was, that Denton made the accusations, desperate, without option, in front of the board of internal inspectors (more importantly, without proof). Later it was to be described as “a bout of paranoia, due to delayed shock” in the psychiatrist’s report, after examination, after the break-down came. Case Number b71344, otherwise known as the Berkshire Ripper case, was to blame in the eyes of the ”experts”. To Denton it seemed as if it was him against the world & unjust as it was, the corrupt world had won! To be exact there were only a few who had been “left out of the loop”-so to speak. Considered to be too straight, too honest, Denton had been one of the few initially, but had ended up becoming the “fall guy”.
Now that it has all gone too far, there
was only one option left,...
... he wrote on the note before stepping into the opening.
The up draught rushed through his long untidy hair, as he fell from the ninth floor window, then suddenly it was all at an end, as he hit the concrete below.
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