Explanation to the requests and their relevance
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When officers Bews, Myall and myself first went to recce the house we saw a person in the upstairs master bedroom window. The light was on and the curtains fully open. The person was effectively back lit so we could not identify them other than to say it was clearly an adult. This person appeared to be looking out of the window and then walked from our right to left across the room. Officer Bews made us duck down behind the hedge as he did not wish us to be seen. We stayed in this position for a couple of minutes and when we looked up again the person had gone. We then ran back to the car and reported what had been seen to officer Saxby. At this point a report was made back to headquarters via the radio and officer Saxby wrote up his Scene Log ROS-1. I am certain that the report of us seeing a person alive in the bedroom window was sent to headquarters and entered in the log as nothing else of relevance had occurred at that point worth reporting. At a later stage officer Saxby would have entered this in his pocket book. Once headquarters received this information about a person seen alive and moving around in the house with access to firearms 6 senior officers were informed of the situation. Telephone Message Logs would have been made up detailing what was said to each officer. Also the Firearms Log would have detailed the reasons and circumstances as to why firearms were issued. All of this radio and telephone traffic would also be routinely recorded on audio tapes.
However, we know that none of the above material has ever been made available to the defence or prosecution because all the material given to either is on the Holmes System and as the letter from Essex police states ‘is not there’.
What has been given is a Radio Log which the defence believe has had the first page edited and rewritten to remove the sighting of someone alive in the house. Officers Myall and Bews have rewritten their pocket book entries as can clearly be seen to remove that part of the incident. Officer Bews told the trial that all that we’d seen was a shadow or trick of the light and not a person. The police had to state this or how else could they mount a prosecution if someone was alive in the house – either it was one of the family later found dead or it was a sighting of someone else who could have killed the family – either way it was absolute proof of my innocence as I was with the police at the time of the sighting.
I am sure that these documents that continue to be withheld contain the proof that we did see a person alive in the master bedroom and that officer Saxby was not prepared to alter his pocket book or Scenes of Crime Report, hence why they have always been withheld along with the Telephone Messages, Audio Recordings of the radio and telephone calls and the Firearms Register.
These alterations to the pocket books and the Telephone Log was quite effective until the police inadvertently provided us with other documents in 2004 where we were able to see the inconsistencies.
Jeremy's request to Essex Police
The reply from Essex Police
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Jeremy's response
Essex police are wrong to state that they have complied with my Freedom Of Information requests. They have not fulfilled any of my requests to them for information relating to the first five hours of the incident at White House Farm except for two documents which are not directly relevant.
On the 2nd January 2005 I wrote to them requesting this information – Essex police replied on 31st January providing no documents and asking for more specific requests. In February I wrote asking for specific documents. On 31st March I wrote again asking why my previous requests had not been met.
On the 15th April Essex police replied stating that they held no Firearms Register for police officers being issued with firearms, that they have no audio recordings of the radio or telephone calls from the 7th August 1985 although Mr Bonnett stated that he made recordings of all calls. They asked for more specific names of officers that received telephone calls in order to access the Telephone Message Logs I requested.
They did however send copies of officer Myles and officer Bews pocket notebooks but crucially not officer Saxby’s.
On the 17th May I wrote again with the specific requests and on the 23rd May the police sent some documents but again none of which I had asked for. Finally on the 4th July Essex police wrote back with their reasons for being unable to assist me under the Freedom Of Information Act – see letter from Essex Police
Out of the 60 documents I requested I have been provided with only 2 which contain nothing of relevance. The police have sent me 12 other documents which were not requested and bore no importance whatsoever to the case. None of the remaining 58 documents have ever been seen by the defence and one has to wonder why Essex police choose to not make available all contemporaneous records made during those crucial first five hours of the incident on 7th August 1985.
Latest correspondence to further requests
and their reply to this is:
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