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45 year old loner Jack Hollis stood motionless over the wreckage of his new car, as his dead parents were stretchered into the ambulance. He was the sole survivor. The Police breathalysed him and asked him to have a blood test, he obliged but although no alcohol was in his blood, his group could not be matched.

The police had doubts about Jack after his involvement in the accident because of his strange reaction; he didn’t show any emotion to his parent’s deaths, it was as though he accepted the deaths as irrelevant to the ruin of his new car. The Hollis’s were on their way to their new home in a small Devon village when the car crashed into a tree. 

His parents adopted Jack when he was six years old, from a Convent during a visit to the Himalayas. The Nuns appeared reluctant to let this boy into the outside world, much to his new parent’s amazement.

Not able to have children of their own, they idolised Jack, giving him the love and home any young child could wish for. However, they were unsure of how the little boy ended up at the Convent and no-one knew where he had come from.

During his school days Jack spent a lot of time studying and had few friends, but he did have an enemy, one troublesome boy who took a dislike to him.

This boy mysteriously disappeared from school one day and the teachers couldn’t explain his absence when he failed to return, even the police were involved with a nationwide search.

After leaving school Jack kept himself isolated from any social life, spending most of the time studying chemistry and micro-organisms at University.

He didn’t have any attraction to the opposite sex Jack never married, much to his parent’s disappointment.

People at his College thought he had either an eating disorder or a thyroid problem, as no-one saw him eat. Sometimes he would look quite thin and drawn, like a ghost and others times he looked obese. He was six feet seven inches tall with shoulder length black hair and a beard that swept onto his chest, he wore small rounded spectacles, giving the impression that he could be a rock star although he only listened to classical music on the radio.