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Bernie Connelly?’ asked Rebecca.
          Just the mention of Bernie Connelly’s name was enough to wind Jeff up and he’d been thinking that if he was involved in anything to do with this then it would prove a game changer. Jeff wouldn’t be able to resist using the situation to get to Connelly who he’d been waiting a very long time to bring down. Lucy Thompson had been involved with him as his lover and his employee. That suggested to Jeff that there would be more to find out about Connelly and his connection to this murder. 
          ‘Well we do know that Lucy Thompson did have a sexual relationship with both Gary Mitchell and Bernie Connelly at the time that Bradley would’ve been conceived’ Ollie went on. ‘But until we get those DNA results we won’t know’.
         ‘And Lucy Thompson is adamant that Gary Mitchell is the father?’ asked Adrian.
         ‘Oh yes’ said Jeff. ‘She’s told me, she’s told my sister and she’s told the FLO’.
         ‘It could be that she’s trying to convince herself as well as us’ said Joe. ‘You can tell yourself something over and over again but it doesn’t alter the fact that it isn’t true’.
          ‘But until we can prove otherwise then Gary Mitchell is our only suspect so far’ said Rebecca. ‘He would’ve had the time to do it and he did have the motive. If he thought that Bradley was his son and knowing how desperate his wife Debbie is to get pregnant it might’ve sent him over the edge to protect her feelings?’
         ‘I’d have said that about a lot of people but not Gary’ said Jeff.
         ‘Don’t forget how close you are to this, Jeff’ said superintendent Chambers.
         ‘I do understand that, ma’am’ Jeff replied who wasn’t sure whether Chambers was referring to the fact that Gary Mitchell was his friend or the feelings that she knew would’ve been inspired by the spectre of Bernie Connelly. ‘Look, I know where you’re going with this DI Stockton and I don’t like it but that’s not to say that it might not be true. It’s time to get Gary Mitchell back in and when he is I want you, DI Stockton and you, DI Wright, to handle him. I also want his house searched and his butcher’s shop on Craven Road. Our new boys, DC’s Bradshaw and Alexander, I want you both to go down to the Paradise club. Find out what you can about Lucy Thompson’s time working there. Do we know what the opening times are for the club, Ollie?’
         ‘Well it just so happens that it opens at three in the afternoon, sir’ Ollie replied, looking at his watch. ‘Just about now’.
         ‘Good’ said Jeff. ‘So get down there now please gentlemen and don’t even think of sampling the goods on offer’.
     
         After the briefing Adrian followed Ollie into the gents where Ollie was drying his hands under a machine that was fixed to the wall.
         ‘Thanks’ said Adrian.
         ‘Thanks? What for?’
         ‘Ollie, you know damn well what for so stop messing about’.
         ‘Adrian, I promised you when we had our little fling that I would never kiss and tell and I meant it’.
         ‘So you’ll keep it that way?’
         ‘Yes Adrian’ said Ollie, smiling. He’d been surprised to see Adrian walk into the squad room with such a confident swagger. They’d had a fling three months previously that had nevertheless been exciting and good with snatched afternoons in Manchester hotels. ‘Nobody will ever find out from me what a great kisser you are’.
         Adrian blushed. ‘Thank you’.
         ‘Credit where it’s due’ said Ollie. ‘But we do have to work together. So I hope it’s not going to be a problem?’
         ‘Not as far as I’m concerned’
         ‘Good’ said Ollie who was relieved that there wouldn’t be a difficult work situation to deal with. ‘And that goes for me too. So how are you anyway? Dare I ask if you’re seeing