Samantha, who was thirty-eight, arrived at the school to watch her daughter, Lucy, who was seventeen, being caned by the headmistress, Mrs Hargreaves, for getting a double detention. Samantha was very annoyed with Lucy, not so much for having to watch her daughter being caned as that had happened a few times before, but because she had to give up going to a friend's house for her Book Reading Club. Samantha had been calle...

Lucy, who was seventeen, had made her way back home on Saturday afternoon. She had expected to be at a sleepover with three friends. When one of them came down with a cold, it was decided best that the sleepover was cancelled. Lucy went up to the front door, unlocked it, walked in, and closed the door behind herself. She was looking out for her mum, not knowing if she was home because she had phoned to tell her she was co...