Chloe Hadjimatheou

Right.

So how often would Sally take this walk to the bank do you think?

I would think when there was any quantity of cheques to pay in.

Sally Walker had been given the cash, but she hadn't paid it into the business account.

So the bank manager suggested they take a closer look at what was being paid in and out of Martin's business over the last few months.

Thousands of pounds had been taken out of the business in forged cheques.

And there was only one suspect.

The bookkeeper, Sally Walker.

Martin's new solicitor suggests this is serious enough that Martin needs to go to the authorities.

When Sally shows up at his office offering to pay back the missing £9,000, Martin accepts the money and he tells the police the losses have been made good.

But that's not the end of the story, because the missing £9,000 was from the last few months.

What about before that?

Sally had worked for the Hemmings for around seven years.

So every evening after work, Martin and Ros would sit together at the kitchen table late into the night looking through years of financial ledgers.

And eventually, as Ros remembers it, they worked out that £64,000 had been taken out of Martin's business.

If £9,000 was a lot of money back then, then you can imagine this was a fortune.

Early on Wednesday 8th October 2008, the Walker family is awoken by banging on the door.

It's the police.

They arrest Sally for fraud and theft.

She's taken into custody for questioning and her house is searched.