Heidi Blake

I mean...

The handwriting is different.

The handwriting is different.

Also, if you look at the top, his name has been spelt wrong.

Whoa, wait a second.

Yeah, his name has been spelt with two L's and it's Milbank with one L. And they've crossed one out.

But most astonishing of all, to me, was that amid all this fuss over his statements, it seemed that no one had asked Milbank the most important question of all.

Had he really received a 999 call from inside the manor as he'd told me?

And what had he heard inside?

Without speaking to Milbank, the CCRC had concluded that the reference in the files to a 999 call from White House Farm was just an administrative error.

The CCRC declined to answer detailed questions about its reasons for reaching this decision.

My first thought was to go back to Milbank, to ask what had happened to make him disavow our conversation.

And then, while I was still pondering how to go about this, I was blindsided by something totally unexpected.

Hi.

This is me blowing up Natalie's phone again.

Okay.

So Nick Milbank has died.

What?

Yeah, he's died.

Nick Milbank had died a few weeks earlier, on June 6th.