The Criminal

Sergeant Walker sighed deeply as he studied the figure before him: a haughty, middle-aged woman who met his weary stare with a gimlet eye.

She faced charges of criminal damage after having run amok with a permanent marker, fervidly correcting those street signs which failed to meet her impeccable standards of punctuation.
On being accosted by a bewildered policeman, she had delivered an impassioned lecture on the decline of the English language.

This was the fourth such case this week – and Walker knew the inspiration for the crimewave.
'Bloody Lynne Truss' he muttered, as the indignant criminal was taken away.