Three lesser masons, Jubela, Jubelo and Jubelum, wished to gain knowledge of the word and threatened Abiff, who refused to give it up, and was therefore murdered inside the temple by the three tools sacred to Freemasons: the gauge, the square and the gavel. Ornate versions of these were among the objects stolen from the Ramsay silver vault, where the body of Wright was found.
Robin glanced through excitable reader comments, some of whom had spotted still more masonic features in the killing of William Wright.
The severing of the body’s hands is an allusion to the dismembered Hands of the Mysteries that unlock the temple of wisdom.
The surrounding silver might well have been an illusion to the scripture reading in the Third Degree: ‘Or ever the silver cord be loosed.’
I’ve heard the letter G was carved into Wright’s back – obvious reference to the only surviving letter of Hiram’s secret word.
But then had come phase four, which proved horribly anticlimactic. The police had announced that ‘William Wright’ had in fact been Jason Knowles, twenty-eight, of Haringey. Knowles had previously served six years for the burglary of a building society in Lewes in 2010 and his mugshot showed a broad-shouldered, thick-necked, well-muscled man, with a narrow, freckled face, and a slightly manic glare.
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‘Given the widespread speculation on social media about a so-called “masonic killing”, which has been amplified by some sections of the press, I’d like to confirm that we have no reason to believe that Knowles’ death was in any way associated with, inspired by or committed by Freemasons, nor does the proximity of the United Grand Lodge have any bearing on the case whatsoever,’ said DCI Malcolm Truman, who has led the investigation. ‘We’re now as certain as we can be that Knowles and his killer, or killers, were motivated by nothing but financial gain, and we continue to appeal for information about the murder, and the objects stolen from the Ramsay Silver vault.’
Robin wasn’t surprised to see that this dampening news hadn’t entirely extinguished the hopes of those reluctant to give up the possibility that the killing had been a deliberate re-enactment of the murder of Hiram Abiff.
Shaun Coolidge
The guy was murdered while stealing masonic items from a masonic shop in the shadow of the United Grand Lodge of England but sure, no masons were involved.
Peter Mikkelsen
if you’re ever murdered in the veg aisle at Tesco’s, we’ll know a cucumber did it
Floozy Soozy
hahahahaha
Debbie Palser
lol
Jane Burnett
All that nonsense about Freemasons and it was a common or garden burglary!
SkankyDoodle
how many common or garden buglaries end with a theif left behind with his eyes pulled out and his hands cut off ? why was nothing taken from the shop except mason stuff and why was the body naked and killed in a ritual manner ?
Jane Burnett
As the daughter and wife of Freemasons I can assure you that there are no ritual killings involved! Freemasons raise many millions for charity every year yet are routinely stigmatised by ignorant people such as yourself.
Jeff Grayling
Security at that shop must’ve been p*** poor if the guy could crack the vault after working there for 2 weeks.
Paul Everleigh
Was just thinking that exact thing. Either lax security or inside job.
Starbanger
My comment has now been Removed by the moderater TWICE!!! There is something bloody fishy here!!!! The Chief Investigator Malcolm TRUMAN is a Freemason, member of Winston Churchill Lodge 7502, Holborn!!!!!!
Robin’s phone rang. She hoped it would be Strike, but it was Kim Cochran.
‘Hi,’ said Kim briskly, sounding as though she was in a car, ‘just a quick one. Did Plug look like he was heading for a train, when you lost him on Friday? Or could he have been meeting someone?’
‘Possibly meeting someone,’ said Robin. She’d had the presence of mind to text Kim after she’d come round from surgery, pretending to have confused Plug with another man in the bustle. ‘He was heading towards Caffè Nero when I lost him.’
‘I’d have thought it was impossible to mistake anyone else for Plug,’ said Kim, with a little laugh.
‘It was very crowded,’ said Robin.
‘Must’ve been. I’m only asking because I saw him handing over cash to a guy at Tufnell Park yesterday,’ said Kim. ‘I’m following him up the A12 right now. Strike asked me to do your shift this morning.’
‘Right,’ said Robin, and then, with an effort, ‘well, thanks for covering for me.’
‘He’s pretty depressed, poor guy.’
‘Who is?’
‘Strike, after Cornwall. He was telling me all about it.’
‘Oh,’ said Robin, ‘right.’