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wouldn’t be taking a life
jacket he said he would come,
too. One night they finally
put their plan into action.
Matthew had checked online
tide tables; he would go at
slack tide (the period before
the tide changes direction), at
03.35 on Thursday morning.
So he had a few hours’ sleep,
put on trunks and an old
singlet and some discardable
flip-flops and then just after 3
a.m. called a minicab to get to