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‘So, you’re enjoying the exploits of the Sentinel?’ Kim asked.
‘Looks like he gets stuff done.’
‘Someone you know?’ she asked, hoping for a miracle.
‘Doubt it, but I like his methods. He’s got the courage to act decisively to stop bad people.’
‘And you’re sure they’re bad people?’
‘I don’t have to be. I ain’t the one killing them.’
Reedy’s smug attitude was starting to wear on her nerves.
‘So, you work off tips that come in from the public?’
‘Sometimes.’
‘And how does that work?’ Kim asked. There was a possibility that someone within this group was acting on information being fed to them, carrying out the murders based on the tip-offs they received. The BCA didn’t normally exact this type of vengeance, but their list of members was changing all the time.
‘We get an email or a message, and we begin surveillance.’
‘Which you’re trained in?’
‘It’s just people watching. No training required.’
‘Of course not,’ Bryant said, rolling his eyes.
‘And then?’ Kim pushed.
‘We build a file. If there’s nothing to report, we close the file. If there is something, we pass it on to you guys and then nothing gets done.’
Kim had never seen one of these files, but she was willing to bet that hard evidence was thin on the ground.
‘That must be frustrating. You do all that work, and it goes nowhere.’
‘Of course it’s bloody frustrating. We have a team of nineteen volunteers who all have real jobs aside from doing their public duty. They give up hours and hours of their time to help rid the streets of paedophiles, abusers, rapists. They feel passionately about public safety, and they get no support from you lot.’
‘Passionate enough to kill?’ she asked.
‘None of our members would go that far.’
‘You don’t know that, so I’m gonna need to take those seventeen names, Reedy, and don’t get me started on your morals and values. What was that fuck-up a couple of weeks ago?’
He had the grace to colour slightly. ‘It wasn’t me.’
‘So you weren’t the one pretending to be a sixteen-year-old, except that you never told him you were sixteen, so the guy actually thought he was meeting an eighteen-year-old?’
‘He was married and cheating on his wife.’
‘Which isn’t illegal. And he’s certainly no paedophile, but of course your lot posted the video of him being confronted for grooming and now he’s lost everything. He’s had to move house, and his wife tried to take her own life following the abuse and death threats. Great result. So if you can let me have that little angel’s real name first, I’d really appreciate it.’
He shook his head. ‘Not happening. Data protection. You can’t make me.’
Those last few words were spoken like a petulant child.
‘Where’s your civic duty now? People are being murdered. Don’t they need protection too?’
‘Not if they’ve done bad things.’
