Jack Irish: Bad Debts Page #6

You can have that.

Did it surprise you

when Danny ran over that

Jeppeson woman ten years ago?

Yeah, it surprised me.

Danny hadn't driven

for about six months.

He was on a suspended sentence

for drink driving.

He was sh*t scared

of going to prison.

And you reckon there's a chance he'd

had a few and forgotten all of that?

Oh, yeah, could be right.

If you can work out how a bloke

can go from being passed out

in Fed Square,

go home, grabbed his car

then run over the Jeppeson tart

five minutes later.

How do you know

he was in Fed Square?

Mate saw him. Legless.

Drinking a vat of bourbon.

Talking to that arsehole, Scullin.

Did he tell the police?

Scullin is the police.

Danny was a dog.

For the Drug Squad.

There's plenty of people

who'd want to see him

get put away for fifty years.

You didn't get that from me, right?

Right.

Hey listen, the witness in the case,

um... Ronald Bishop.

Do you know anything about him?

Never met him.

I know he's a bloody liar.

Jack?

Prepared to divulge your thoughts

on the gallops at Geelong?

People in the know, Norm,

usually treat my tips as scratchings.

If that's you, Gavin, I have

a lifetime case of herpes. Go away.

Linda Hillier? Jack Irish. I...

Oh, yeah, right.

You rang about

the Anne Jeppeson hit-and-run.

Yeah.

God, that was a lifetime ago.

Yeah, I appeared for the accused.

But I don't

practise law much anymore.

What do you do?

Oh, I live off my wits.

Gamble. Drink.

Then you'll be keeping

pretty much the same company.

Oh, no, it's definitely

a notch up since then.

I see that you interviewed

Anne Jeppeson a number of times

about the sale

of the Hoagland Commission flats.

Yes, even spoke to her

the morning she was killed.

Our Joan of Arc

in tight jeans and boots.

So you weren't one of her admirers?

Oh, there were things about her

I admired, but, no.

I wasn't one of her admirers.

I wasn't even sure of her motives.

Yarra Cove back then,

it was just a bunch

of crappy warehouses

and filthy docklands, wasn't it?

Yeah. The cops used to

call it the Leper Colony.

Right.

They wanted to develop

the whole site,

and suddenly Jeppeson

comes on the scene like Batwoman

with 'Save our Hoagland'.

And what happened with the protest?

Not much

after your client ran over her.

Do you think anyone considered at

the time that maybe she was murdered?

What, you're suggesting

he did it deliberately?

Or someone else.

It's a bit of an extreme step

for the Housing Commission to take,

don't you think?

Danny got out of jail a few years ago

a new man, apparently.

Good job and a wife and a kid.

And then a cop

shot him and killed him

in the Brunswick Hotel

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