In Madeleine’s case Eddie alerted and no-one knows to what.
In Tia’s case the dog did not alert despite the presence of a body in the loft space.
So the cases are not comparable.
I was particularly interested when Moore said, “A crime scene is perishable – investigation is a consumer – it consumes time it consumes evidence the further you get from the actual crime the less chance you have, …”
IMO that perfectly describes what happened by allowing the apartment to be used while the case was open. It is also what happened when Martin Grime and his team were deployed so long after the event.
He states the case has been ‘so badly botched’ that NSY will have started from scratch on it. I think in any case that would have happened because in a cold case it would make sense to do so.
But If this guy has a training role I bet he won’t be holding up the management of the crime scene in PDL as an exemplar of how it should be done to his students.
In the Sharp case a cadaver dog did alert, the dog's name was Buster.
He alerted on the landing, underneath the loft.
It was Buster (not the Met) who solved the case.
If he did not alert on an earlier date, it was only because the target was well wrapped and the dog was not allowed access to the loft itself.
In general dogs are not deployed in lofts - apparently they cannot be trained to walk exclusively on loft floor joists.
This highlights a restriction of using these dogs - it is difficult to deploy them directly in lofts or other non-floor elevations.
