WHO IS BALACLAVA MAN – AND WILL HE BE UNMASKED?

THE smart money is currently on Jimmy Lakewell, the cocksure lawyer friend of Roz Huntley and her husband Nick, who loves to belittle AC12 and its enquiries.

He took centre stage just as the case against other suspects began to collapse.

We know Balaclava Man can’t be social misfit Michael Farmer, who is behind bars for the offences, because he was set up by Huntley.

Ditto police forensics expert Tim Ifield, who had a balaclava in his possession but was dead when a thug wearing a near identical disguise attacked DS Arnott, above, leaving him with horrific injuries and confined to a wheelchair.

The only other real suspect is Nick, who was spotted close to Ifield’s flat on the night of his death, and was in the same building when Arnott was attacked. But be warned: Line Of Duty likes to throw a spanner in the works and balaclava-wearing thugs also appeared in the first series of Line Of Duty. Could one of these masked men be responsible for the current spate of crimes?