Sheila was shot downstairs in the kitchen, at least one senior police officer confirmed that two bodies were found upon entry to the kitchen, the details of which are recorded in his witness statement, which carries the following citation at the beginning of the statement:-
'This Statement, consisting of - pages, each signed by me, is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and I make it knowing that if it is tended in evidence I shall be liable to prosecution if I have wilfully stated in it anything which I know to be false or do not believe to be true'..
Surely, if there was only ever one body in the kitchen upon entry by the firearm officers, and there had been something of a mix up in communications, where the body of a dead male, was mistakenly believed to be the body of a dead female, then that would have been settled there and then at the farmhouse..
But, this senior officer (Gibbons) confirms there had been two bodies found in the kitchen upon entry, and he was accompanied by Harris and Montgomery, when after 8.10am, they all entered the kitchen farmhouse and discovered Sheila was no longer there. This caused panic to those who were present inside the kitchen, and DCI Harris was requested to use the house land line from the farmhouse to update Peter Simpson regarding how the operation had just gone pear shaped..
The statement made by Gibbons, recorded the truth, two bodies found upon entry to the kitchen, accounted for accurately, in a witness statement that was typed out long after the other cops had got their story right about their having been some sort of a mix up where one dead male body had mistakenly been misidentified as a dead female...