I asked Huntley whether the girls stopped and said anything.
They had asked where “Miss Carr” was – he claimed – and how she was.
I asked him to tell me every word they had said.
He repeated the same story – they had merely asked after Carr.
I was troubled, not by what Holly and Jessica had apparently said, but what they hadn’t said.
They hadn’t mentioned the dog.
No “oohs”, no “aahs”, no “so cutes”, no giggles.
Two 10-year-old girls, enjoying a summer’s day, who see a big hairy dog covered in soap. But they don’t mention it?
I didn’t think it was credible.
