The day after the
robbery at Macbeths Stables Scenes of Crime Officer Aoife Shannon was on her
way to the station to pick up the van before attending a crime scene and had
just got off the Netherfield Ring Road in her car and onto the slip road when a
white van undercut her and, in the process, sideswiped her off the road.
The airbag deployed
the moment the van made contact, and she closed her eyes and stamped on the
brakes as her momentum carried her almost sixty yards before she came to a halt
in a ditch.
She was dazed and
bleeding from a head wound, and her left arm hurt like hell and then she passed
out as she saw the van drive away.
When the ambulance
arrived at the St Augusta’s Hospital in Nettlefield, they took her straight
into A & E, and she was immediately assessed before being attended to by
Orthopaedic Doctor Jeanette Kenny and ER Nurse Tim
Blake.
DC Verebes sat down next to Aoife’s bed while Tim
Blake, a skinny freckly nurse with straw coloured hair stitched the cut on
her scalp.
“Do you know who ran
you off the road?” Detective Constable
Krisztina Verebes asked,
a hit and run wouldn’t normally warrant a Detective, but Aoife was one of their
own, and a friend.
“Do you know who ran
you off the road?” she asked
“No” She replied
“Can you describe the
van?” he asked
“White”
“Make? Model?”
“Volkswagen, Caddy”
she replied and winced
“Index?”
“No” she said shaking
her head
“Keep still Aoife”
Nurse Blake said
“I have a dash cam,
forward and rear facing” she said and winced again
“The CSI’s have it
already” Kriszsie responded
“And that will
definitely help”
Doctor Jeanette Kenny returned at that moment
“Time to get that arm sorted” she announced and
gave the DC a look
“I’ll come back this
evening and get a proper statement” DC Verebes and patted her hand
“Ok” she replied with
closed eyes
As the DC walked away
Doctor Kenny leant in close and whispered
“She’s a dish”
“I have enough trouble
getting a bloke, and even if I did play for the other team Kriszsie is well out
of my league” Aoife said
“I play for that team
and she’s out of my league too” she said with a chuckle and squeezed Aoife’s
hand
Aoife had a mild
concussion, a broken wrist, bruised ribs and a number of cuts and contusions so
they admitted her overnight for observation, and it was upstairs on Willow ward
where DC Verebes went to take her
statement.
Aoife Shannon was a
senior Scenes of Crime Officer and was a fiery thirty-two-year-old red head, tall and willowy who led her SOCO
team by example and relied heavily on her instincts, which rarely failed her.
But laying in that hospital bed she looked pale
and insignificant.
Kriszsie knew there was no significant other in her life,
but she didn’t know that she had been married for nearly 10 years when her
husband betrayed her, and she hadn’t been able to trust a man since.
It didn’t take long to
take Aoife’s statement as she was very together and very precise, and she gave
her statement it a way that made it easier for her to transcribe later it meant
the interview would be over far too quickly.
When she had finished
Kriszsie handed her the statement for her to sign, and after she had scrawled
her Monica on the tablet she stayed and kept her company for the next hour and
was still there when A&E Nurse Tim Blake looked in on her.
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