‘Doesn’t bear thinking about.’ Jane shuddered. The crew would’ve had no warning and it happened in the middle of the night, so some of them might even have been asleep.’ ‘The keel fell off and the boat capsized in a storm. Laura Dicken – she was a couple of years younger than you pregnant too.’ It’s one of the crew on the yacht that sank. ‘Where’s this memorial service then?’ She placed a bowl of soup on the table and sat down next to him. ‘Just a bit of internal police politics, you know how it is.’Ī couple of performance reviews before lunch and Dixon was sitting in the corner of the canteen when Jane caught up with him. When you meet my colleagues at ten, if you could see your way clear not to mention this meeting I’d be most grateful.’ The last time I saw him was at the Chartered Institute’s disciplinary panel eighteen months ago and we certainly didn’t discuss his drug running, or anything else for that matter.’ Staveley checked his watch again. ‘Did he ever mention to you who he was dealing with?’ It was a good size, thirty-something feet or so. ‘It was an old heap he kept it at Burnham Yacht Club and the thing used to spend most of its life out of the water anyway. ‘So I gather, but that’s all news to me.’ Staveley checked his watch. ‘So, that’s when he starts letting someone use his yacht for drug runs?’ ‘The beneficiaries who lost out would’ve been covered by your professional indemnity insurance, so there’s hardly a motive there.’ Sort of ironic, for an accountant, don’t you think?’ I got a bit of stick for that the tribunal said I should have kept a closer eye on the books. He used to do a bit of probate work, administering estates, and stole some of the money. He’d made some payments towards it using clients’ funds, it turned out. ‘Collins is struck off,’ said Dixon, nodding. If they were going to blame anyone it would have been their employer, I’d have thought.’ He was just the accountant who administered the scheme. But, having said that, I’d be surprised if many of them knew who he was. ‘But that still leaves hundreds of people with a motive to kill him?’ Godfrey was struck off for the tax avoidance and misappropriating clients’ funds, but I was cleared of any dishonesty.’ They hauled us both up before a disciplinary panel. ‘Certainly not! The Institute took a bit of convincing, mind you. ‘And you were never involved in any of these schemes?’ The government were supposed to be looking into it there was a review to see whether it was reasonable to claw back this money, but that just decided they couldn’t go back further than 2010, which is still leaving some people with whopping great bills.’ The taxman’s being reasonable with some of them, giving them time to pay, but some of them just can’t.
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