I’VE JUST OPENED THE MAIL. TWO QUARTERLY STATEMENTS ARRIVED this morning, one from the high-interest savings account and one from the shares portfolio we have with Mercer. Both statements acknowledge the change of address to c/o Fitzgerald & Co. They also document substantial amounts of money being moved out of the accounts exactly one month ago, just after her conviction. Susie’s moving money out of my reach, but she can’t get to the bank. That’s why she’s using all her phonecards to call Fitzgerald. It also explains why Fitzgerald keeps acting as if I’m a filthy upstart. He’s been organizing moves of raw cash and putting it where I can’t touch it.
It’s the lack of trust that I can’t get over. Susie may have had an affair, could have killed two people, has certainly been convicted, and she’s moving the money away from me. She might be able to move the three Mercer portfolios unilaterally, but she can’t move the money from the Imcras account or the Donaldson ISA funds without my consent. If I divorced her, I could get all of it; I’m looking after Margie, after all. There’s a bit of her old man in her; he was a sneaky, secretive old bugger too. She must have glue for blood.
Among all the papers and articles Susie has amassed up here, she has only two things about Gow’s release: this short article and the picture from the newspaper, the one where Gow and Stevie Ray are holding hands and Donna is lurking in the background. I think Susie was losing the urge to collect things about it by this time. She was at home full-time and she didn’t get as many opportunities to buy the papers.
The Riverside Ripper’s appeal against his conviction for a spate of killings of 1993 is to begin on Wednesday.
At a preliminary hearing in Glasgow, Andrew Gow’s counsel lodged the outline of its arguments. The Crown Office has had four weeks to respond, and the court will begin to hear the case on September 2.
What’s the point in my doing this? No one cares. No one doubts the verdict but me.