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**__ Bethan Murray __** That evening Dr. Oliver Campbell came home from work, ate the food his wife had left in the oven, before she had left for her yoga class, poured himself a glass of whisky and sat down to watch the news. Once the news had finished, he walked into his study, pulled out his revolver from the second drawer and shot himself in the head. His wife came home 2 hours later, after dropping her son off at a friend’s and sleeping with her yoga instructor, to find her husband lying in a pool of his own blood. She calmly left the room, and phoned the emergency services, who sent officers straight over. The officers; Inspector Julia Andrews and PC Ray Evans, arrived at the house 20 minutes after the phone call, and found the front door slightly open. After a quick inspection of the house, they found Rachel Campbell hanging from the balcony by a skipping rope and her husband still on the study floor, his brains on the wall. When the Campbell’s son Ben arrived home and saw what had become of his parents, Evans quickly took him to a nearby café, distracting him with a cup of tea, while they waited for Grant Campbell to come and collect his nephew. It was sufficiently awkward, as he tried to console the teenager, but Evans wasn’t really trained to deal with crying. Once Grant Campbell arrived, Evans returned to the crime scene to see if the “science guys” had done their thing. They hadn’t yet finished, but Inspector Andrews decided there was nothing more that they could do, so both she and Evans returned to the station to finish their paperwork and drink bad coffee, once this was done, they returned home. Andrews to her husband and two children, Evans to his dog. They both went about their evening activities, trying to block out the scenes from earlier that day. They were both unsuccessful, and fell asleep thinking about it, Andrews with her husband and Evans in front of the television; a bottle of whiskey half-empty on the table, his dog at his feet. The next morning, an uninformed Norah Campbell stumbled into her flat after a night out, threw her shoes on the floor and went into the bathroom where, upon catching sight of herself in the mirror, vomited in the sink. After a quick shower and a change of clothes, she decided to check her phone messages. There were 3. One from her boyfriend about coming with him to his parent’s anniversary party, she would ring him later to say that she was going and did she need to take a present? Another from her friend Emma, who had drunkenly called her at 2am, and a final one from her uncle telling her that something terrible had happened and that she needed to come home immediately. After making herself some coffee, she rang her uncle. While he was telling her what had happened, she dropped the cup, scalding herself in the process, but she didn’t notice until after she had hung up and the pain in her legs came to the forefront of the mind, distracting her.
 * __ The house __**