by Brian Cain
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
It was Monday the 15th of March 2011 and with the efforts of Anthony and Robert Stanton Jacob Ahmadi had become a rich and powerful man. Al Ahmadi's will had been found amongst his personal paperwork after he had committed suicide in detention in the US and his only son was left everything. Efforts in the high court by Ahmadi's indirect family and trust members in the Middle East had failed to contest the will and Jacob left Sydney airport bound for Kuwait with his fiancée to take control of his father’s organisation. Stanton knew he would not be easily swayed by radical influences and the authorities watched eagerly to see who jumped ship as he began to make his influence felt.
Stanton had a hectic Christmas looking after his grandchildren and moved back to his Newcastle home above Bar beach with his wife Jodi.
Cadiche married his partner Kay at Christmas; left the police force and became a contract advisor on state and aboriginal law enforcement.
The dust on the nuclear arms fiasco in Pakistan had not settled and authorities were reviewing the Masroor Airport incident. The British and American governments waded in with information acquired from Tali Mahir and Al Ahmadi that linked the peninsula area properties to members of the Pakistani Afghan governments. The bodyguard with Mahir at the Karachi Stamford was a member of the Afghan government security service and accusations of British and American involvement fell away. Stanton had given up watching the fiasco on the news channels as the only muscles he was exercising were his stomach muscles.
ABC reporter Darren Mack had been relentlessly haunted by David Stokes but had finally been left alone giving him breathing space. He just happened to interview Graham Billet, federal member for the Hunter, regarding coal loading facilities in the port of Newcastle when they had a casual conversation about Stanton living in the area and advising on security measures for the Williamtown Air Base recent upgrade.
Darren Mack told Billet he thought Stanton was a ruthless vigilante finding uncanny clues between the lines. Billet told Mack of the broken arm affair by Stanton and they exchanged information regarding the Canberra Airport fire and the Blue Mountains accident and Mack showed Billet security footage of Stanton's car leaving the park ‘n’ fly facility at Mascot the day and time Peter Price was murdered, purchased from a park ‘n’ fly employee. Billet rankled with anger about his wife finding out about his affair and applying for divorce plus losing Jodi. He put all the information together and made a complaint to the state police of assault causing actual bodily harm against John Stanton regarding his broken arm forwarding other information for investigation.