There can be no doubt SC was moved by EP. A/PS Woodcock confirms in his WS that SC's head was raised against NB's bedside cabinet and bizarrely some 17 years after the event forensic scientist Martyn Ismail, instructed by the prosecution, also said SC's head was propped against the bedside cabinet based on soc images. MI said SC was pulled by the feet.
Of course it is a serious matter when a police officer disturbs the soc but were the intentions good or sinister?
Positive reasons could include:
- Check for life
- Make rifle safe
- Recover Crispy under bed
- Modesty - SC was found without underwear
Sinister reasons could include:
- Wanting to access bedside cabinet or under mattress to look for valuables/cash. AE claims JB queried with EP the missing contents of NB's wallet: cards and several hundred pounds.
- If anything dodgy was going on with the opium poppies and an officer was working with a crime gang and WHF an officer may have been looking for anything incriminating: names, addresses, drugs, handgun. This sounds a bit far-fetched but just putting it out there!
- Interfere with SC's body sexually