Dom Harvey

And it's not a... Even without seeing it, just hearing it, it's not something I'd even better get out of my mind, I don't think.

As a 24-year-old, like, how do you...

Yeah.

Did you lean into alcohol or anything as a coping mechanism at that age?

Also, we all know now that that's not the right way to cope with these things.

Yeah, definitely.

Well, it was at the time.

I suppose back then there were no such thing as psychologists or therapists.

And even if you did say that you needed help, you'd probably be called a pussy.

Many decades have passed, so we can laugh now about the absurdity of the GP taking the pulse on the neck of the decapitated head.

But did you have nightmares about that or anything?

Facing the corner.

Yeah, I mean, like it gets bleaker in your book, The Dead Speak.

There's a story on page 129 about a man who murdered his wife with a hammer.

Knowing what we now know about your upbringing and your personal experience firsthand with domestic violence,

When you turn up to this crime scene, and there's a lady upstairs that's dead in bed, having had her head and face smashed in with a hammer, and her husband, who's downstairs, sobering up at the stage, no doubt, confessing to it...

How do you approach that with professionalism?

Yeah, after she came home and confessed to having an affair, and then she fell asleep, and then he attacked her in his sleep.

In a case like that where the husband has called and confessed to this crime and you've come around and he's there and the murder weapon's there, why is it necessary to do such a thorough crime scene examination?

Is that saying an open and shut case?