He had walked it on Friday, alone, at the same time of the morning, with a stopwatch on his phone and a plan of the building folded in his inside pocket, and he walked it again now in his head as Rashid brought the car down the lane behind the Crown Court at twenty to nine.
The side entrance. A steel door between the bins and a ramp, with a camera over it and a bell. A security officer called Maxine who had been told they were coming and would not look at Esther, because she had been told that too. A lift that smelled of floor polish. The second floor. Then a corridor, the only stretch of the route that was public: twenty-two yards of blue carpet from the lift doors to the door of the witness suite, past the doors of Court Two and Court Three and the…
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