Is that an error with the information reported or a error in letting the information slip out?
Thank you pixii. IMHO this is most likely what has happened. Police can't and therefore won't say any more. However, it would also appear to be the same if all leads dried up and no further evidence turns up. We would not hear anything else in both scenarios AFAIK.RSBM
In this situation the police can do nothing if they locate Corrie & he's emphatic that he is safe, well & doesn't want his family informed. He's an adult & their hands would be legally tied (unfortunately).
Again the wording of forensic searches is only coming from Tony. The Police haven't said anything. I think those buildings in the immediate horseshoe area are businesses (unless someone knows better?) and I'm positive that all these businesses would have volunteered/gave permission to Police to do any/all searching they wanted without the need to get warrants.
Also I'm not convinced any dusting for fingerprints or DNA testing was done inside buildings given the claim is that the other bins weren't taken away for 10 weeks.
Yes!
So did the police get warrants to do 'forensic searches'? Because as I understand the law, they can't just come barging into private property and start dusting for fingerprints, DNA etc etc. They need a warrant unless certain circumstances apply, and in my interpretation those circumstances didn't apply in this case. At least as far as the information we know.
So taking number 2, if the police recognise and trace one of the vehicles and find C has gone willingly and trace C alive and well but he doesn't want to return, what next? He hasn't been reported as AWOL and he's not on missing persons list. What would the police do next in this scenario?
Taking number 1, we have already theorised about that I think, false plates, destroyed vehicle etc so no further lead there.
Yes indeed the 'forensically searched' comes from TW.
I was thinking in this situation, if the police came to my door (home or business when I had my own) and explained that they were dealing with a missing person case who was last seen very close by and they'd like to just take a look around my property to check for them, well I'd be fine with that. No problem to let them check outbuildings, have a look in each room, under the beds, in the wardrobes, heck even stick their head up through the loft hatch to have a look in there, I'd be absolutely fine with it.
But I wouldn't be fine with my property being dusted for fingerprints or DNA and if the circumstances were the same as this case, I'd insist on a warrant for that.
To me, "forensically searched" implies just that. Dusted for fingerprints, documents checked, DNA etc. It's that word 'forensic'. It suggests much more than a few police officers having a look around the building for someone who may be there.
This is why I'm wondering how other posters interpret "forensically searched". I don't think those businesses have been searched in the way that I interpret those words.
The weird thing is that Nicola said somewhere that the outside of the bins wasn't initially fingerprinted? Yet the outside of the bins, and possibly even the contents and an internal search without removing from the area, shouldn't need a warrant as they're easily accessible to the public while sitting in the horseshoe? Taking them away should need a warrant, but I would think the businesses would give permission without asking for a warrant? Can warrants be got in the case of a missing person without a body? I think that is where the dodgy ground is.
We'd need to check the law on this, but if you have a waste bin inside your property, then the police would need your permission or a warrant to search it. But a waste bin that's in your garden, right next to the garden wall/gate and is easily accessible to the public just by leaning over and opening the lid, I believe they wouldn't need a warrant to either fingerprint or take your rubbish, and as the bin might be property of the council in many cases, rather than the owner of the property or the rubbish collecting company, then I can't see the council denying permission to remove the bin, even without a warrant.
Because if the public can easily access your bin, commit a crime against a person and throw the victim's clothing or phone in your bin that's on the street accessible without access to your property, then it would be ridiculous if the police couldn't just open the lid of the bin and check the contents. So I believe that publically accessible means no privacy expectation, therefore it can be searched.
But that is just my opinion and I have no legal training to back it up.
I don't believe any harm came to Corrie in that horse shoe area only because there would be evidence of some description to back that up. If someone had attacked him enough to really harm him then I would assume there would be blood at least.
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Not cleared according to website and nothing quoted anywhere else to contradict or update. We can therefore assume imo that Police are still looking at vehicles at this pointI would hazard a guess at this point that all vehicles have been checked and cleared. It'll be 14 weeks on Friday - that's a serious amount of time
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Not cleared according to website and nothing quoted anywhere else to contradict or update. We can therefore assume imo that Police are still looking at vehicles at this point
It is odd !
I can only assume that "forensically searched" with regard to the interior of those multiple business properties doesn't entail what I think it entails. To me it suggests SOCO on site, in white protective clothing. I think I've misunderstood but I'd like to know it does mean.
