Five Seconds Longer

"Lying next to a blazing taxi cab, the victim was unconscious, only just clinging on to life. He could not know that, if only he had been able to watch something that he felt was distasteful, almost sickening, for five seconds longer, then, probably, none of this would have happened and he would not now be fighting to stay alive- a fight that he was almost certainly going to lose........" Neil Hughes, an innocent taxi driver, is savagely beaten and left for dead; despite a thorough police investigation, there appears to be no motive. It is for the reader to decide how innocent he was