Stories of Tie Up Games

“Allow me to explain the situation,” the young man said as he sat in the armchair and looked across at the two women. “My partner and I regret the fact that you will have to be inconvenienced in this way, but it is a necessary part of what we do and how we work. You have my word, however, that we ...

“Greta? Good lord is that really you?”

“I’m afraid so Beth – it has been a long time.” The woman who had just walked into the café was wearing a black leather jacket over a white top with a black Rorschach pattern on the material, blue jeans and black biker boots. Her hair was dyed chestnut brown ...

Thursday

When they left, I looked at my mother and my sister, and I was smiling – and I could see they were smiling as well, because we were all the same…

Rebecca is my twin sister – we’re both ten – and when Mum brought us home from the cinema, she said we could change so that we were just like ...

For this edition of In Their Own words, we talk to those who have been involved in home invasions and robberies again – but this time, we focus on the recollections of those who were younger boys when the events took place, both long ago and more recently.

Starting with Chip, who was ten years old ...

Week 2
Monday

Our plan had been to drive back after Sunday dinner with Steve’s sister and her family – and they enjoyed our visit – but before we left, we got a call from my parents to say Tammy could stay another week if we wanted some more time away – and the freedom to do whatever we want had ...

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Saturday

Dad had taken me, my twin brother Steve and my younger brother David to see Superman, and we had really enjoyed the film. Steve and I are eleven, both of us with short hair and glasses, and we were wearing grey jackets over blue shirts grey pants and trainers, while David was wearing a ...

“Are you sure that you don’t want any drinks at the moment?”

“No, we’re fine gran,” Bethann Allcott said as she sat at the table with her brothers. Bethan was ten years old and was wearing a striped jumper over a white blouse, blue jeans and black trainers. On one side was her nine-year-old brother ...

“So, shall we begin and be about our work?”

The other man looked out and along the road, before he said, “I think we should be – are we prepared?”

“We are indeed – and so, to work…”




“Thanks,” Tricia Hopkins said as she accepted the mug of coffee from her daughter Cher. The forty-five-year-old ...

Thursday

Janna and I were having lunch in a local café when we were witness to a – well, a very loud disagreement between a family at a nearby table and the waitress. The mother looked as if she was in her early thirties, long straggly brown hair dyed lighter at the ends with a red sleeveless top ...

Monday

It was the end of July, and we had deposited Tammy with her grandparents for the week so Steve and I could spend a week just driving round and doing whatever we wanted – and for us, that meant it was going to be a slightly unplanned Busman’s holiday. We did have one or two visits planned ...

Tom and Barbara were sitting in their front room, looking at some papers as Top of the Pops from 1976 was playing in the background.

“Well, I agree,” Barbara eventually said, “if we manage this, we can certainly take that holiday, but it’s going to take good luck and timing. You say the opening is ...

It has been some time since we visited the ladies of St Monica’s Church – but for this tale, we go back to the 1950s and a very special meeting of the Ladies Circle – a meeting where a whole month of events needs to be revealed…

“Whdhdhnthafachssdhwh?”

“Hdshdntfhnkshnh,” Lady Angela Baines said ...

Emily Morton smiled as she carried the tray through and placed it on the low table in her front room. The sixty-five-year-old woman was wearing black sleeveless dress, designed in the Chinese style, with a white fern pattern on the silk, her short greying brown hair tightly permed and stell rimmed ...

Sunday

We were just sitting watching television when the man came into the room and told us both to keep our hands where he could see them. I was wearing a white top with black stripes and my old blue jeans with white socks, while Kirsty had on a white t-shirt, jeans and socks.

The man was ...

Gwendolyn stepped back, frozen as she looked at the older version of herself. She didn’t even notice as two of the guards approached and pulled her arms behind her back, cuffing them together as her younger selves were grabbed.

“Tsntpsble,” Younger Gwen said as she struggled to get free, looking ...

“What the...” Velma said as they saw the plume of smoke rising a short distance away. “Did something just explode over there?”



The four girls reacted by instinct, and ran in the direction of the smoke column, the path taking them through the woods to a small clearing, in the centre of which ...

“Is her dress ready yet Mummy?”

Andrea smiled as she looked at her ten-year-old daughter kneeling on the floor of her spotless kitchen, wearing a red and grey checked dress with short sleeves and skirt that came down to her knees. It had white cuffs on the short sleeves, a white peter pan collar ...

Part 2

Elsewhen

Gwendolyn looked over at the same time as young Gwen was looking at her, the quizzical look in her eyes that she remembered so well from her youth.

“Whru?”

“Mugwn.”

“Ucntb.”

“Ysshs,” Gwen said as she looked down at herself. She had no idea how all three of them had ...

“Cavey!! What are you doing here?”

Dee Dee embraced the small, hirsute man who was standing in the tent, holding a large wooden club in his hands.

“Oogga Booga Cavey need find Dee Dee,” he eventually said as he was let free. “Oogga Booga girls had to be saved from boom.”

“What, someone ...

Crystal Cove

“It was nice of Fred to let us borrow the van for the weekend.” Velma nodded as she sat beside Daphne in the front of the Mystery Machine, reading the map as the brightly coloured van made its way out of their hometown.

“Well, he was so intent on staying in town for the Trap ...

Part 1

Ten

“Come on, you dweeb – Grandpa will be waiting for us.”

Gwen Tennyson laughed as she ran after her cousin towards the Rustbucket, the old camper van that her grandfather had been using to drive them around the country all summer. When she had first heard about the trip, two things ...

I had been doing a lot of research into the family of property developer Phillip Wayne recently, following seeing some articles where they showed him and his family in their Kensington townhouse – and in their Dorset holiday home, which had a separate housekeeper. I was planning to be in the area on ...

“Good morning, dear lady – will you kindly allow us to come in?”

Sharon slowly nodded as she stepped back from the front door, allowing the two men to come in and watching as one of them closed the door. They were identically dressed – black jumpers, pants, shoes, glove and balaclava masks – but ...

The apartment was in a nice area of town, and I knew the family that lived there had expensive tastes, so I was confident when I climbed up the fire escape an let myself in through a bedroom window that I would be able to find a lot of nice things to take out with me.

I was dressed appropriately ...