Chapter 14
No.13 Barnaby Street Norwich.
7:16 pm. Sunday 14th June 2015.
As it was MI5 who had sent Dave to check out the property, they felt it was their responsibility. Dave's bugging job had been arranged by Mr Jones as they were tracking a suspected local terrorist group that had been set up a couple of years earlier in the area. However, they were not ready to spread the net and arrest all its members as they lacked vital information on exactly what they were involved in, and how many were involved.
Dave had been sent in to check out the leader Clive Manning, and to bug his house. Unfortunately, Dave’s plans did not work out. As he had not expected anybody to be in the house. He was caught un-aware and knocked out from behind. When he came around he could not remember seeing anybody, be it the owner or another possible intruder.
Believing the house to be empty he had quietly searched around the downstairs area, but missed the owner lying dead behind a settee in front of a wall, having been shot.
He hid a small microphone by the land phone line in the kitchen, on top of a high cupboard. It being the main area that conversation would usually take place.
He then proceeded upstairs, having a general look around, in case he was asked to describe the lay out of the house, if a raid was required later.
After going through two bedrooms he approached what he believed to be the main one.
He opened the door and slowly walked in, deciding not to switch on the main light, or to use a small torch he had in his pocket. As both might attract attention from people walking past the building.
As he let go of the door he had just opened to walk over to a picture on the far wall. Suddenly the light in his eyes went out, as he received a serve blow to the back of his head.
Several minutes later he was almost blinded by a brilliant light that was directed at his face. Followed by a loud voice ordering him to freeze and raise his hands, an order he was not about to disobey.
Mr Jones first gut instinct was telling him that it had been an ordered hit on Manning. To him it was not a burglary gone wrong, as the average burglar doesn’t usually carry a gun. They like to gain entrance into a property as fast as they can, grab what they can, and get out as fast as they can. No, burglars do not normally carry guns.
This intruder had arrived at the house before Dave, probably killed the owner and was upstairs looking for something, maybe a safe? When Dave disturbed his plans, and walked into the bedroom.
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