DS Andrews: This interview is being tape-recorded and may be given in evidence if your case is brought to trial. We are in an interview room at Twickenham Police Station, Richmond Borough. The date is July 2018 and the time by my watch is 3 p.m. I am Detective Sergeant Luke Andrews. The other police officer present is Detective Constable Hope Caton. Please state your full name and date of birth.

Emily Wood: Emily Mirabelle Wood.

DS Andrews: Ms Wood, would it be all right to refer to you as Emily from this point on? For the benefit of the tape, the suspect is nodding. Also present is Stephen Richardson, solicitor. Mr Richardson, you are not here to act simply as an observer. Your role here is to advise the suspect, facilitate communication and ensure that the interview is conducted fairly. For the benefit of the tape, Mr Richardson has nodded. Emily, at the conclusion of the interview, I will give you a notice explaining what will happen to the tapes and how you or your solicitor can get access to them, all right?

Emily Wood: Yes.

DS Andrews: Emily, I need to caution you that you do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence. Do you understand?

Emily Wood: I have been in The Bill, you know. [Laughs] Sorry, yes. I understand, Officer.

DS Andrews: Do you agree that there are no other persons present other than those previously mentioned?

Emily Wood: [Coughs] Yes.

DS Andrews: All right. Emily, you were apprehended apparently attempting to suffocate Miss Roisin Flint at West Middlesex University Hospital yesterday evening at approximately 7.15 p.m. Can you explain what happened?

Emily Wood: Why? [Laughs] You’ve just explained it yourself. That’s exactly what happened.

DS Andrews: Can you tell me why this was?

Emily Wood: I’d brought the girl home for Owen, but she got away. I didn’t want her blabbing, so obviously I had to shut her up, as it were.

DS Andrew: Can you tell me who Owen is?

Emily Wood: He’s my brother.

DS Andrews: Can you describe your relationship with Miss Rosie Flint?

Emily Wood: I’m her theatrical agent. I offered her representation but that was a ruse. In reality, I needed a girl for Owen.

DS Andrews: So you’re saying you took Rosie Flint to your property at 31 Parkview Close, Ham, Richmond Borough, which you have stated is your own home, at approximately 12.15 p.m., and that you did this for your brother, Owen? For the benefit of the tape, the suspect is nodding. Could you take us through the events as they unfolded after you brought Miss Flint into the property at number 31?

Emily Wood: That I can. [Coughs] I brought the girl into the kitchen in the usual way. We waited there for Owen, who comes by bus. He doesn’t drive, you see. He came in and said hello and sat down with us at the table. We had tea together and ate the scones with butter and honey. I always bake scones when we take a girl.

DS Andrews: Emily, do you mean to say that there were other girls? That you’ve kidnapped others? For the purpose of the tape, the suspect is nodding. And can you tell us where they are now?’

Emily Wood: I can. In the greenhouse. Under the greenhouse, I should say. Owen loved the greenhouse. He has very green fingers. Had. But he’d let all that go lately. Which is a shame. He grew fabulous tomatoes.

DS Andrews: Emily, is the greenhouse at your property, at number 31 Parkview Close?

Emily Wood: No, dear. At my brother’s. Next door. Number 29.

DS Andrews: How many girls?

Emily Wood: Rosie would have been our third.

DS Andrews: Do you have their names?

Emily Wood: Lucy Tavistock and Cosima Wright. I kept the newspaper articles. They’ll be in my folder, in the unit to the left of the stove, third drawer down. The first one was years ago, 2010 or ’11 sometime. Before we got the greenhouse. The last one was more recent. I started keeping tabs on her in November time. We weren’t meant to be taking another but Owen was getting antsy. The Rosie Flint operation wasn’t going as I had hoped. I told him we had to go slow. She wasn’t biting, and the mother would barely let her out of her sight. When she got the part in the play, I changed tack. I knew exactly how I would take her, but then, when I made my move, as it were, she kept getting sick. I didn’t want to take another girl, but we needed an interim. We got Cosima from a café in Putney. Tennis champ. That slowed the Rosie operation down somewhat, I can tell you. Almost had to let it drop. But we soon picked up where we left off.

DS Andrews: Emily, I’m arresting you for the abduction and murder of Lucy Tavistock and Cosima Wright. You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence. Do you understand?