Chapter 43
Joyce
So, could Ian Ventham have killed Tony Curran? That was today’s big question.
Well, according to Ibrahim—and I do trust him in the area of attention to detail—Ian Ventham would have been cutting it very fine, but it would have been possible.
That would have given him two minutes to get out of his car, get into the house, and hit Tony Curran with a large object.
So Ron said that if Ian Ventham had killed Tony Curran, then he’d done it very quickly, and Elizabeth had said that that was always the best way to kill someone, and that there was never any point faffing around.
I asked Ibrahim if he was certain of the timings, and he told me that of course he was, and that he had tried to show me his workings, but that he’d been interrupted by Ron returning from urinating.
I told him that was a shame, and he perked up a bit and suggested that perhaps he could show me the workings later. I told him that I would like that very much, because a white lie harms no one.
So, we had a lot of fun today, and it seems that Ian Ventham really could have killed Tony Curran.
He had the motive, and he had the opportunity, and I suppose where bludgeoning is concerned, the means is just something big and heavy, so that wouldn’t be beyond him either. Lewis would have him bang to rights.
What if they arrest Ventham, though? And the fun stops?
Let’s see what tomorrow brings.