The way I see it is that this note had been picked up by " Taff " Jones who'd initially verified the tragedy as a murder/suicide given the " written clue ", which he would then have passed to Stan Jones who'd hung on to it, but who had other thoughts in mind.
Murder/suicide was too easy a case to have solved and wouldn't have involved as much work as a murder case. He'd wanted more !
Was SJ looking at his own plan of furthering his career from being an ordinary sergeant ? I think so.
Nothing seems to have changed
WHEN BRITISH JUSTICE FAILED
Court No. 2 of the somber Old Bailey Courthouse in London was packed to capacity last Oct. 19. Ranks of wigged lawyers squeezed into the jury box. A hundred reporters crowded the back benches; the public gallery was overflowing - but the courtroom was deathly silent.
As the Lord Chief Justice of England, Lord Lane, finished his summing up, his voice, quiet and restrained, carried to the back of the courtroom: ''These appeals are allowed and the convictions are quashed.''
For a second there was silence, and then the court erupted. Relatives cheered, the members of the press smiled, the four defendants kissed, whooped and threw carnations across the courtroom. The long, dark nightmare of the Guildford Four was over.
For 15 years, the Guildford Four, three young Irishmen and an English woman, had been imprisoned for horrific acts of terrorism carried out by the Irish Republican Army - two pub bombings, in Guildford and Woolwich, that left seven dead and scores injured.
The prison file of one defendant, Paul Hill, was stamped ''Never to be released.'' All four, the Government has now admitted, were innocent.
Thirty minutes after the court's decision was announced, one of those Irishmen, 34-year-old Gerard Conlon, walked out the front door of the Old Bailey into a world he had last seen when he was 20.
Outside, a triumphant crowd of Irish construction workers cheered and roared as Conlon proclaimed: ''I've been in prison for 15 years for something I didn't do. I'm totally innocent. I watched my father die in a British prison. He was innocent. The Maguires'' - seven people jailed in a related case - ''are innocent.''
The four defendants were convicted, Lord Lane noted, because the police ''lied.''
Three junior Surrey detectives were immediately suspended, and two retired officers are being investigated. In Parliament, Douglas Hurd, then the Home Secretary, announced an immediate judicial inquiry, to be headed by a retired judge, Sir John May, into the Guildford Four convictions and the Maguire case.But the Guildford ''lie'' did not confine itself to a few junior policemen. Like a virus it grew and grew until its corruption tainted the entire British legal system.
The Guildford Four case has now tarnished some of the loftiest legal and police reputations in England. The judge who tried the Guildford Four and the Maguire family, Mr. Justice Donaldson, is now Lord Donaldson, Master of the Rolls - that is, head of the English civil law courts. The prosecutor, Sir Michael Havers (now Lord Havers), was later promoted to Attorney General and eventually became Lord Chancellor - the constitutional head of the British legal system and Speaker in the House of Lords. Peter Imbert, a policeman who played a major role in interrogating the Guildford Four and in capturing the real I.R.A. bombers, today is Sir Peter Imbert and, as Metropolitan Police Commissioner for London, holds the most powerful police post in Britain.
''From the moment the police caught the real I.R.A. bombers, the authorities knew the Guildford Four were innocent,'' says Chris Mullin, a Labor member of Parliament who has campaigned against other miscarriages of justice.
''In order to obtain and sustain these convictions, the judicial process had to be bent from top to bottom.''