One of the more commendable things about Ciaran was also one of his biggest let downs, women or better still his beliefs on how women deserve to be treated. Growing up in Southampton witnessing domestic violence and it had really bothered him.
Thirteen years old waking up in the dead of the night to a sound he could not recognise, though it wasn't the sound so much but more a feeling, a feeling of fear and it wasn't his, Ciaran climbs out of bed and walks to his bedroom door, as he does and barely able to open his eyes but what he would stubble upon would change that. The sound was his mother calling out for his sister but it was muffled.
Shouting but not shouting, quite but you could hear the life and death as she tries to call his sister, this kicked Ciaran in to gear causing him stepping through the door and looking left to see his mother's partner knelt up on their bed, he couldn't see his mother but could see that her partner pressing down on a large lump under the blanket.
Running straight at him and leaping on him, swinging at him but not making a difference, he swings and slaps me in the face causing me to fall back. Knowing there was no other options Ciaran runs down the stairs and dials nine-nine-nine telling them what was going on before running to the kitchen and grabbing the biggest knife but by the time he had got back to his mother, both her and her partner are now stood, wrestling they claimed and that was they story the police accepted when they arrived as well.
After that Ciaran spent little time in the family home, it was something he struggled to witness but not only that, he knew fighting against it was futile but he would regardless and was now also subject to the abuse himself.
Fast forward, twenty-seven and domestic abuse was everywhere but now Ciaran isn't the same person, when it comes to these bullies, he has a zero-tolerance policy and what's more satisfying the bullying a bully.
Darren the most scared of all bullies but had eluded him for quite some time. After two of his friends tell Ciaran of his abuse while in a relationship.
Then a third women had told me about her time with him after she had let him stay with her when he was homeless, it wasn't just abuse, he would also con them out of as much money he could, this women Ciaran was in a physical relationship with.
Then one day Ciaran got lucky and was practically handed Darren, Katie the women Ciaran was physically involved with receives a call from Darren, he is really upset and wants to talk about his daughter as a hearing for the adoption order for her was fast approaching. Katie agrees to meet with him to talk with some encouragement and reissuances.
The best thing with premeditated actions is you have that time to plan and prepare before it happens and for Ciaran this was precious because knowing how he feels about these scenarios, also means knowing that he is also at risk of losing control and while normally he wasn't that bothered, this was because he would normally have his brother Michael with him, but that's not possible as he is back in prison and that means there isn't anyone either capable or willing to intervene if Ciaran was to blackout.
Spending the day out with his friends, going back and forth between two of the places he and his friends chilled out to smoke weed, everywhere he walked there was CCTV. Time Katie had agreed to meet Darren was fast approaching so they as well as four of their friend's head to place, a plan for how Ciaran wanted it to play out and with Ciaran's ability to problem solve, he planned it like it was a military operation.
Katie walks to the entrance to the woodland alone Chrissy and Scott decide they had not wanted to be associated so they both head to Scott's, the two other friends follow Ciaran. There are multiple entrances to the woodland area and not just designated so further up the road from Katie, Ciaran and his two friends enter through the trees, with pace finding a position close to the path inside the woods,
Ciaran just inside the treeline so that he didn't need to take his eyes off Katie, his friends further in the tress making it a lot harder for them to be seen. Before hey reached this point Ciaran had taken off the top layer of clothing changing his description.
Ciaran could hear Katie and Darren as they walk towards and past him, he allows them to gain a small amount of distance before walking out on to the path, head down hood up, Ciaran walks a calm pace but a little faster, Ciaran caught Darren looking back and that he had not suspected anything.
Ciaran rapidly picks up his pace to catch up to them as quick was possible but every step was like a feather and before Darren had realised anything, Ciaran came up behind him and puts his right arm around him, he quietly tells him not to say a word and to follow him and Darren done as he was told.
Turning round now Ciaran still with his arm around Darren when they walk on to a dirty path in through the trees and now out of clear view Darren attempted to say something but Ciaran didn't give him the chance. As soon as Darren said the first word Ciaran swings his left arm round, it had just been hanging down beside on him and Ciaran had not planned this part so he didn't know he was going to hit him until that split second, the swing had turned in to a half swing half flick of the arm.
Starting the swing with an almost flaccid arm and as it had started to get close to Darren, Ciaran tenses the muscles in his arm and he could hear as Darren's nose but it wasn't just him, Ciaran's friends who were fifteen feet away had also heard it, one loudly and prolongingly saying woo. The scream, the blood and Darren slumped in a holly bush and once he could understand again, Ciaran started shouting at him "you like to hit women? You like to strangle them yeah?" and you owe a lot of people and I'm here to start collecting.
Darren seriously scared now as his begs, he tells Ciaran he has no money, he could see this had made Ciaran even more angry and he pulls his phone out of his pocket offering it to Ciaran. Ciaran takes the phone and Darren had thought it had ended there but it happened, as Darren went to pick himself of the floor Ciaran lifts his right foot and brings it down using the bottom of his foot to kick him back down.
After Ciaran took the sim card out, he starts to run spiriting to Katies flat waiting for her and his two friends to get back so that he could was the blood off and dispose of his clothes.
Less than twos after Ciaran and one of his friends had got back to his friend's place, walking in to be bombarded by question after question, the first being "what have you done now?" his friends partner asked, she had received a call from a detective, the detective asked if Ciaran's friend could call back when he returned home and he did, Ciaran telling him to put it on loudspeaker.
The officer had asked several broad questions, nothing direct about the incident trying to catch him out. At first when asking about the name the officer used a different surname then Ciaran and it had turned out they had already arrested another Kieran by this point, but had still not taken long for the officer to ask about me using my surname, she had asked that when he saw Ciaran could he ask me to contact her. The following day Ciaran called the officer and agreed to attend the police station to answer some questions and the agree to do so the next day.
Sat in public reception area waiting for the officer, she comes through a big steel blue door and after confirming it was Ciaran she places him under arrest, cautioning him before leading him to the custody suit to book him in before the interview.
Knowing that Ciaran planned it very well he was also prepared to be interviewed for the incident and at this point they had only questioned Ciaran on the information provided by the victim, this left Ciaran distracted from the question of how they had got information like names. The interview went well and with the information being circumstantially making Ciaran's solicitors job easy, even easier when Ciaran was able to disagree with fitting the description telling the officers to look at the CCTV around the town centre, they would be able to prove what he was wearing that day.
It wasn't long before Ciaran was bailed pending investigation, minutes away from the police station as he walks away, he looks down and that was when he saw it, the whole time he was in the police station and it was there blood, blood from when he stomped on his face.
To be continued.......