The Curious case of Briston prison

With reference  to The Curious case of Briston prison 

Chapter -2   

The Case, The Killer, The Murder

            Dave and every one assembled at the Police warden’s meeting room.   “The case details are there in the folders which have been provided to you.  Let me brief you guys about the case. The victim was supposed to be in the adjacent cell of the Psychopath. The victim’s name, Donald North and the Psychopath was Jack Daniels. We will see the slides “he turned to Melinda and nodded his head giving the signal to switch on the projector and switch off the lights. Melinda acknowledged him and did what she was said to.

“Donald and Jack were kept in adjacent cells. They had nice friendly conversations, Donald was found guilty of murdering his brother and his wife, for their illegal affair. He was given a life time imprisonment. Donald used to be one of the food servers inside the Jail, who was serving the food to the prisoners.”

“If we can notice, the crime has happened in a different room, which was used to store food supplies.  I want you to take a close look at the picture, the victim was sliced into 2 pieces and the knife was right there next to the Victim’s body. “   Buma raised her hand interrupting him.

“Yes Buma...” acknowledged Dave

 “ When we have the  knife ,  the Victim and the style of murder as  evidences  and the police very well  knew that this can be done by only one person, Jack Daniels,  how come they failed to prove him   guilty? “Buma questioned Dave

 “I was about to come to that point,   you think Jack Daniels would get caught that easily after committing a murder?  Jack is a very smart and intelligent guy. The police had a real tough time in tracking him and arresting him actually. “Dave started to explain more about the case.

“If you can zoom in and check the pictures there will be a key next to the Victim’s body.  That is the duplicate Key which was used to open the very same room, in which the Victim was murdered. The thing is Donald North was in charge of the food department and he had the duplicate key, whereas the original was with the Commissioner of the Jail.”

All of them viewed the picture closely and acknowledged Dave. “During a usual check up in a morning, the police officials could not find Donald in his cell. They started searching for him in a lot of places. Jail commissioner was informed about this and he had to order a wide search across the island. Every nook and corner was checked. The police officials returned to the commissioner giving him negative answers.”

“The next day morning, a foul smell started to come out of the Food storage room. When they opened the door and went in , they were astonished to see Donald’s halves lying there in a pool of blood and a writing on the wall saying “ I AM BACK  AGAIN“.  The key of the room which Donald had was lying next to him. ” 

“The police officials know that this kind of horrific murder can be only done by only one man, Jack. They took Jack into custody and tried to make him accept the crime. Jack did not even utter a word. The case went to the court for trial; the judge released Jack because of the lack of evidences that was produced against him. The media made a big issue of the case, saying the Commissioner might have had a hand in this murder too, the prisoners started to believe the media and started a fight  leading to the riot “

 “About the room, it is located in the south west corner of this island, no windows or anything “ 

“We are here to solve this case. If we can find out, how the key got inside the room, then we can easily prove that Jack is the murderer with other evidences” finished Dave briefing about the case.

There was a pin drop silence in the room. 

“Any questions? “, asked Dave looking at everyone in the room. Quinn raised his hand “What happened to Jack? Is he still alive?”

“Jack is no more as per records. He was supposed be one of those people that the police officials killed in the riot” Dave answered to Quinn’s question. “We can go to the place where the crime was committed, tomorrow morning. I have asked for special permission to visit the room, which will take some time.  Till then relax.” said Dave with a smile.

Case yet to be solved…