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Subotica club and who told Denise her father Paul disapproved of her dating black men. Ferguson is keen to arrest Paul Reid, but Denise learns from Amy's friend Ellen that Amy left in a car with the club's DJ. When Denise and Ray visit the club they find bouncer Mike Holland with scratches on his face and wearing a medallion identical to Amy's. Denise seeks out Jay, a woman Holland was accused of raping though he was acquitted and, as the Brixton riots start, Ferguson allows Denise to take the credit for Holland's arrest.
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that he was in a van near the murder scene. She works out that there was another man with him at the gig Joanna attended, justifying her view that all three of the murders over the years involved an accomplice. Denise's protégée DC Jay Tomlin offers herself as bait at the club where
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unsafe conviction and the man is released. Denise then has to admit to Ray that she planted evidence on
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