Last Friday we go to have supper with a friend in Burton Bradstock. Round the table is a couple who live in Pucknowle (pronounced Punnel) which is the village between us and BB. The couple in question live up a no through road and are therefore virtually traffic free. Thursday night around 8pm they hear a car and so look out of the window to see who it is. A police car. Odd. Police car drives off but comes back twenty minutes later. Lady of the house rings local police station to ask why there is a police car lurking in her lane as she is not too keen to go out and investigate if there is a killer on the loose. After 5 minutes her call is transferred from Somerset and Avon to Dorchester police who tell her there is no need to worry. Fine. But as she was being told this, suddenly there were three police cars and a helicopter with search lights hovering over her house. Not so fine. And then suddenly they were gone as quickly as they appeared leaving the couple rather frightened and locking every door and window in the house!
So back to supper on Friday night. Our chum, E, was awoken on Friday morning by the police asking if she had seen anything suspicious in BB on Thursday night. No, she replied. Off to work later she sees that the loos in BB are cordonned off and there is a forensic team at work. Murder, drugs, theft - everyone was avid for information.
News here travels very very fast so all the surrounding villages knew that 'something funny' had happened in the loos in BB. There was Blood. Who had been killed? Polic cars, helicopter, forensics - it must been something Important.
Blood samples sent off for analysis and on Saturday the results came through ... rabbit blood! Someone had been cleaning their game in the public loos. Don't blame them - gutting rabbits is a very smelly business!
