‘You’re right, of course – but it’s not always an easy lesson to learn,’ Meadows said.

  ‘No, it isn’t,’ Paniatowski agreed, ‘but if Liz Duffy had learned it, she might have been able to look forward to a useful life and a contented old age. Instead, she ended up swinging from the ceiling of her cell. And she’s not the only one who didn’t learn the lesson. I’ve been told about another suicide this morning, and I think that – above all – is what really upset me.’

  ‘Was it somebody you knew?’ Meadows asked.

  ‘No, we’d never even met, but I knew of her,’ Paniatowski said sadly. ‘Her name was Susan Williams. She was sixteen years old, and was once raped by a man called Templar – and last night she drowned herself in the river.’

 

 

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