Andrew Mercer’s second response arrived through Northbridge’s solicitor on Thursday afternoon. He had reviewed the manual payment instruction and the limited supporting records the company had provided. His statement remained …
PART 30 – What Andrew Mercer Remembered Read More Helen Ward began Monday morning by placing the unsigned manual payment instruction beside Andrew Mercer’s written response. The two documents had been produced by Northbridge Holdings to support its claim …
PART 29 – The Approval No One Could Confirm Read More Northbridge’s next production arrived in a series of electronic files late on Friday afternoon. Helen did not open them immediately. She first checked the accompanying index to see whether the …
PART 28 – The Approval That Came After the Money Read More Patricia Wells called Helen on a Tuesday morning with news about a meeting schedule she had found among her preserved Northbridge records. The document was several months old and had …
PART 27 – The Meeting Thomas Refused to Forget Read More Martin Shaw began his next review with the bank entries rather than the descriptions in Northbridge’s accounting summary. He wanted to follow the money from the moment it left the …
PART 26 – The Money That Passed Through Two Doors Read More The morning after Helen Ward reviewed the recovered correspondence, Claire Bennett arrived at her solicitor’s office with a copy of her father’s green notebook tucked inside a plain brown folder. …
PART 25 – The Records Northbridge Could Not Explain Read More Helen received Northbridge’s response two days later. It arrived as a formal letter accompanied by several spreadsheets, a transaction summary, and a statement from the company’s finance department. The letter …
PART 24 – Northbridge Produced a New Explanation for the Transfer, but an Email Recovered From Daniel’s Archive Contradicted the Company’s Account of What Happened Read More Martin Shaw called Helen the following morning. His voice was unusually measured, and he asked whether she could arrange a meeting that afternoon to examine an accounting record he had …
PART 23 – Daniel Finally Explained Why Richard Asked About Thomas’s Instructions, While Martin Shaw Found a Financial Record That Connected the Missing Agreement to the Unexplained Transfer Read More Margaret Ellis arrived at Helen’s office ten minutes before the appointment, carrying a small leather handbag and a folded umbrella she had no use for on that dry morning. She …
PART 22 – Margaret Ellis Remembered the Envelope, but Her Account of the Instructions She Received Raised New Questions About Richard Cole and Northbridge Holdings Read More The morning after we examined the recovered agreement, Helen asked me to arrive at her office before nine. She had spent part of the night reviewing the document again, comparing …
PART 21 – Helen Traced the Former Legal Office’s Records to a Retired Clerk, Whose Careful Silence Suggested the Missing Page Had Been More Than an Administrative Accident Read More