Blood of the Innocents

When two teenagers go missing on the same day on Mariner's patch, it seems to be nothing more than a coincidence. Yasmin Akram is the talented grammar-school educated daughter of devout Muslim professionals. Ricky Skeet disappears after storming out of his council house following a row with his mother's latest boyfriend. Mariner is not happy when - following media pressure - he is taken off the Skeet case and reassigned to the more politically sensitive investigation, but he soon finds that the picture of Yasmin her schoolfriends paint is far from her parents' description of her as a total innocent...