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Dilys Powell

Who is this?

07700 903361

It’s Tyler. You need to use this number for me now.

Dilys Powell

Is that you Wynn Jones

07700 903361

No gran it’s me, Tyler. I’m going to call you now all right?

07700 903361

Gran answer the phone it’s me

Tyler

07700 903361

Gran THIS ISN’T WYNN IT’S ME

The last of these messages had been sent shortly before Christmas.

‘Would you mind if I take copies of these, Mrs Powell?’ asked Robin.

‘All right,’ said Dilys, and Robin photographed both chats with her own phone.

‘And would it be all right for me to take the number for Tyler’s father?’ Robin asked, seeing Ivor Powell’s name on an older WhatsApp thread.

‘Yeah, all right,’ said Dilys again.

Robin saved the number, then handed back the Nokia.

‘Have you spoken on the phone to Tyler since he left, Mrs Powell?’

‘No,’ said Dilys. ‘That’s not him. It’s that Jones playing games.’

‘Wynn Jones from Higwell Farm?’

‘Yeah.’

‘You think he’s been calling you, pretending to be Tyler?’

‘What?’

‘You don’t think it’s really Tyler who’s been calling you?’

‘Rude,’ said Dilys. ‘And he was a good boy before all this.’

‘Have you spoken to Tyler since he left, Griff?’ asked Robin.

‘Not since June,’ said Griffiths.

‘He seems to have wanted you to have his new number,’ said Robin.

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