MICK: "How do you work that out?"
DET. SGT. SHELDON: "Whilst doing 20 years over him, your girls will be reminded of what he has done every time they come up to visit you."
MICK: "I didn't come up here to do 20 more years in prison. The police will have to shoot me dead."
DET.SGT. SHELDON: "If that's the case, then you will be doing 20 times more damage to your children."
I could not understand what he said, and Rod went on to describe that my children would no longer have a Father to see them at Xmas, tuck them into bed at night to read them a bedtime story, and in general to be there and protect and teach my girls that not all men are like that.
I told him that I had been fighting Authority and the Police all my life - How could he do his job?
He told me that he gets 10 cases a week like my daughters' and I said to him, "Why are there not 10 Murders?"
Rod told me I had to live and deal with what had happened and be there now for my children when they are going to need me the most.
That Police Officer is a real life Hero. He helped me see reason when I believed Revenge and Death was the only answer.
He helped save my life and and the future of my two girls' lives.
