Chris Lomax

**Chris Lomax** is a Detective Sergeant in Central Police. He is assigned to the Murder Investigation Team at Hillside Lane Station.

## Background

### Personal

Lomax was born on 3rd December 1986. His next of kin is a Mrs T Lomax.

### Professional

He joined Central Police on 27th June 2010, having undergone training at Chislehurst Police College.

Prior to the events of Series 6 he was stationed at Hillside Lane Station, working as part of Operation Lighthouse headed by DCI Joanne Davidson.

## Series 6

### Episode 1

Lomax is on night shift at Hillside Lane Station along with PS Farida Jatri and PC Fields, when they receive a call from a CHIS handler regarding intelligence on Operation Lighthouse. He calls in DCI Joanne Davidson, who he tells that the informant is confident about the intel and has rated it 1A on the matrix. Davidson permits him to get a team prepared for deployment for an immediate arrest, and he goes to liaise with members of the Strategic Firearms Command who are getting ready. However, when DSU Ian Buckells halts the operation due to questioning the intelligences accuracy, Lomax is the one who informs the team to stand down.

The next morning, having received Executive Level permission to proceed with the raid, Lomax is present in the Murder Investigation Team meeting where it is revealed they are going to Flat 4F Beechwood House to arrest a man known as "Ross Turner". Lomax is in a car with PS Farida Jatri in the convoy en route, and is confused and surprised when the team is redirected to Hickey's Bookmakers last minute by Davidson. It transpires that an armed robbery was taking place, and after one of the robbers is shot by an Authorised Firearms Officer, the whole team needs to stay in place until another team of armed officers from South Ferry Station arrive to take over. Lomax remarks to Jatri that they have lost too much time.

After Beechwood House is raided and Terry Boyle is arrested as the only occupant in Flat 4F, Lomax accompanies an FC from the Forensic Unit to the flat to place Boyle in a forensic suit to preserve evidence before he is brought down. Examining the flat with DI Kate Fleming and DCI Joanne Davidson, Lomax notes the presence of newspaper clippings of Gail Vella. He then receives a call confirming Boyle is fit to be interviewed. Back at Hillside Lane Station, Lomax confirms that Boyle has given the name "Ross Turner" during initial questioning, however Fleming notes that given his learning difficulties he might have only done so because he was asked a leading question. Lomax and Davidson interview Boyle a second time, where he reveals through his lawyer Margaret Moore his real name, and that he primarily resides in Dorton Villas in Kingsgate, not the Moss Heath area where he was arrested.

Lomax accompanies the team to search the flat with the Forensic Unit, where it is discovered a large fridge has been removed from Boyles kitchen. Traces of Class A drugs, an item of clothing with gunshot residue and more pictures of Gail Vella covered in semen are also found. Lomax interviews Boyle again with Davidson, where the two imply that Boyle was obsessed with Vella and shot her when she didn't reciprocate his advances. Boyle answers "no comment" to most of the questions, but does remark he thought Vella was a "nice lady". When the Forensic Unit reports that a second set of prints found in Beechwood House match a known criminal Carl Banks, the situation becomes more complicated. Boyle and Banks are of similar appearance and build and could have been mistaken for one another entering an exiting the flat, and Banks is a more likely contender as the shooter given his previous convictions for firearms offenses and his association with the Organised Crime Group.

Due to this, Lomax reluctantly agrees with the decision of DCI Joanne Davidson to release Boyle on police bail, knowing that the circumstantial evidence against him is not enough to get the Crown Prosecution Service to charge him.

**Episode 5**

After receiving intelligence of 3 possible OCG sites, Lomax accompanies the Murder Investigation Team to one of the sites (unbeknown to MIT, AC-12 are carrying out simultaneous surveillance on the sites. After nothing is discovered, DI Kate Fleming reveals to Lomax and the rest of the team that there are 2 more sites which need to be raided, Lomax appears annoyed, due to not being informed earlier.

## Gallery

DS Chris Lomax wearing a bulletproof vest (Series 6).