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Jump to navigationJump to searchA Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler) by Susan Hill (view source)
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Drugs hadn't really been that much of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of time. They still were, to a great extent, but Serrailler knew that something had to be done. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the drugs and the operation running the county lines was tight. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn't be the correct one) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher up.
This was how the Roper family became involved. Dad had custody of his four boys and he did his best to give them a decent life. He was a bouncer in a nightclub: they managed reasonably well on his income but they were never flush with money. Tommy Conner , Connor and Alf had all caught the school bus but Brookie was struggling behind with all his stuff in a flimsy carrier bag - and missed the bus. That was when he met Fats, who gave him a lift back to the end of his street. The next time they met he gave him a new rucksack - and there was a phone inside. Then there was a fish and chip meal from all the boys when all they could have afforded was chips and scraps. Then came the pressure on Brookie to deliver packages.
Livvy was in her early teens and Fats had caught her too but now she wanted to get out, Fats wasn't having it though. If Liv didn't do as he says some of his friends would be enjoying her - if she understood what he meant. Added pressure was put on the CID team by the death of a heroin addict in a run-down flat over a Chinese pharmacy: he could only have been in his early twenties.
