74 #CallMe

‘April, it’s Lacey Lanning. I need to speak to you. It’s important. It’s about Bryce. Something I never told you. I’m in trouble. I have no one else to turn to. Hope you get this message.’

April had missed Lacey Lanning’s call as her phone had been at the bottom of her bag, as usual. It wouldn’t be the first, or last, important call April would miss. It always amazed the journalist when she went to check her mobile, after a few hours of forgetting about it, to find reams of texts and voicemails of increasing urgency.

April called Lacey back, but this time it was the turn of the DJ’s mobile to go to voicemail. A minute later, April received a text from Lacey: Thanks for calling back. I’m on air until midnight so can speak to you after then. xx

April knew there had been more to the story. Now she couldn’t wait to hear Lacey’s unedited version of events.

But someone else was also keen to hear what Lacey had to say for herself, when they accessed April’s voicemail. Even after the ‘hacking scandal’ that forced the closure of the red-top tabloid News Of The World, listening into someone’s voicemails was still surprisingly easy as long as you had their mobile phone number and four-digit PIN code. Despite several warnings from Connor to change her voicemail PIN code, April had never got round of it, meaning it was still set to the factory default of ‘0000’.

Not knowing whether April had listened to Lacey’s message, the hacker deleted it and hung up. They needed an urgent plan of action before the DJ said too much.