Part 3 - Harriet, meet Sydney

Harriet, meet Sydney

With Harriet’s freshly found freedom came the need to have new close confidante’s with a lawyer and an accountant essential posts to fill. Her brother, Arthur, was every bit as unscrupulous as his sibling and had been in on the disposal of Harriet’s husband from the start. He was also a solicitor and handily a sole trader with no one to overlook his dealings with Harriet.

Further, Arthur was well connected in the field of the dark arts so when it became clear a new accountant was required, Arthur reached out to a chap who had recently been spending his newly inherited wealth far too quickly. It was time for Sydney Braithwaite to join the party.

Sydney had recently taken a £3M gift from the deceased wife of a gang land killing. The wife, Tania Hardy, had been very grateful with her life being saved by the quick to react Sydney. Further she was delighted that she was now in sole control of her deceased husbands empire without him in it. On her solicitors advice, Arthur of course, she had gifted her saviour Sydney with the huge reward out of the generous need to keep him quiet. Arthur had delivered the money, in the form of hard cash in a suitcase, just as Sydney had finished another soul destroying day for his soon to be ex employer ‘McGill and Partners.’

‘Look after the cash,’ Arthur had told him, ‘and launder it accordingly. Gradually feed it through several accounts and if anyone asks, you’re selling your Mum’s goods now she doesn’t need them. When I need you to do some accountancy work I’ll be in touch.’

Sydney was bored, poorly paid, a loner, without family other than his elderly mother in St Joseph’s, and more than happy to take whatever form of good luck he could get. This new found cash was a god given gift though of course deity had nothing to do with it.

Within a few months Sydney became hooked on the cash as Arthur, pulling unseen strings, had him tied into the joys of ‘Celia’s Friends.’ To the naked eye this was a business to put a friend at the side of a lonely man. In reality it was a cash squeeze high end escort business owned by Arthur. The solicitor now had the accountant quite literally by the balls.

And so Harriet’s new team was born.

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