I wonder if Bumbling Ron's cack-handed treatment of the bible will force members of the CCRC into submission?
"Detective Inspector Ron Cook, the lead crime-scene officer, died several years ago. But when I spoke to his deputy, Detective Sergeant Neil Davidson, he made a startling revelation. During the examination of the bodies, Cook had “lifted the Bible up and had a look at it,” he said. “It was one of those ‘Oh, shit’ moments.” Davidson recalled that Cook had stood “fumbling” with the Bible, before asking which page it had been on, and had then put it back by Sheila’s body before the pictures were taken to “re-create what we just screwed up.” This kind of incident had earned Cook a nickname on the force. “We called him Bumbling Ron,” Davidson said. “Chaos reigned wherever he trod.”
Cook oversaw the cleanup of the crime scene, and Davidson helped dispose of bloody carpets and bedding. After Bamber was declared the prime suspect, “The shit hit the fan, big time,” Davidson said. “ ‘What can we salvage? Who can we blame?’ ” Cook spent weeks “chasing about, red in the face,” trying to find scraps of evidence, Davidson told me. “He was trying to dig himself out of the hole. The whole forensic thing was really a shambles, because nothing was preserved.” Watching the chaos unfold had left him conflicted about the case. He told me, “I would not be surprised if, one day, someone comes along and says, Here’s definitive proof that he didn’t do it.”"
