Take two...

Paolo arrived at Limehouse Police Station at 2.55pm, five minutes early. He wanted to demonstrate that he was fully cooperating with the Metropolitan Police. The detective inspector was running late by 15 minutes as his interview with Tony at Walthamstow had run over. Paolo was OK about that, secretly wondering if he was being kept waiting so they could see if he was getting edgy and hot under the collar. He wasn’t.

Paolo was really very cool. He doubted that Tony would have said anything to undermine him - he just wouldn’t.

When the DI arrived, Paolo repeated his earlier story.