Sniffer dog

[JackiePreece]

I was just thinking if Ray H Spark Films had a night off touring the red light district of Ipswich thinking there was a Mercer story and there was no story!!!

Our documentary is top of his game, the best around right now

[JackiePreece]

Vic what did you mean about Facebook?

[Nuala]

Hello Keira, I don't appear to be hyperventilating. I apologise profusely if that is the impression i have given you. P.C Mercer worked on the case and works near where i live. The fact that he was a police officer and firmly believes in Jeremy Bambers innocence makes him a very interesting person to meet, i feel.

Personal Significance? difficult question but i will say Yes.

Hi Simong,

No apology needed. I should be the one apologising to you as you say I'm wrong.

Can I ask you why the case is of personal significance to you? Do you mean it's personal merely in the sense of having a grievance and taking something as 'personal' as a result, or do you mean that you have or had personal involvement with the case itself or with or with Jeremy and, or, his family?

[Nuala]

And I am sure he is absolutely delighted that you've set any journo worth his salt to now try and track him down for copy!!

How exactly do you claim I've done that,Vic?

[vidvic]

How exactly do you claim I've done that,Vic?

I didn't Keira. It was Jackie.

[JackiePreece]

Vic there's not much of a story is it a police handler trusting his dog

Did you think it was bigger

[Nuala]

I didn't Keira. It was Jackie.

Oh, right.

[Newbury1]

Great idea. I would love to meet this lovely man 

Haven't Nick and Vic gone quiet...

I've just got more important things to do! 

But still waiting for the official evidence supporting the police dog issue....... Zzzzzzzzzz!

If it's that important, did Rivlin use it in Court?  - that would silence me 

If Rivlin didn't - take a running jump 

[tyler]

The fact that Mercer was even there in the first place,with his dog,would he have had to have written up some kind of report afterwards,or a statement maybe?

[Blodwynflower]

The fact that Mercer was even there in the first place,with his dog,would he have had to have written up some kind of report afterwards,or a statement maybe?

You would think so, wouldn't you Tyler.....

[Janet (Formerly known as Takeshi)]

You would think so, wouldn't you Tyler.....

I think all he would be required to do is make the relevant entries in his note book. He would only make a statement if requested to do so.

[Nuala]

Is there actually any evidence that this dog ever got anywhere near Bamber? And if it did, why did the defence not mention this at trial as Bamber surely would have remembered a close encounter of the canine kind?

Yes, there is Vic, I've just found it.


From PC Dermott's statement

"After a few minutes I was called up to the building via green side where I met with Ps Adams and Jeremy Bamber in the cattle shed on white/green corner. Ps Adams instructed me to wait with Jeremy Bamber whilst he went to speak to Pcs Collins and Delgado. Whilst I was there I had another conversation with Jeremy Bamber...

Ps Adams asked for a dog handler to join my position and we were joined by PC Mercer. I was instructed to find a containment postion on black side and I took PC Mercer back to our transit and equipped him with body armour. We then went to the black side of the building and were unable to find a containment postion because of the density of the hedgerow.

PC Mercer and myself ended up by a barn on black green corner...

Prior to the entry to the building PC Mercer was relieved."

So dog handler PC Mercer [and his dog, or why ask for a dog handler?] were in the cattle shed on white/green corner with Jeremy Bamber.

[Nuala]

Yes, there is Vic, I've just found it.


From PC Dermott's statement

"After a few minutes I was called up to the building via green side where I met with Ps Adams and Jeremy Bamber in the cattle shed on white/green corner. Ps Adams instructed me to wait with Jeremy Bamber whilst he went to speak to Pcs Collins and Delgado. Whilst I was there I had another conversation with Jeremy Bamber...

Ps Adams asked for a dog handler to join my position and we were joined by PC Mercer. I was instructed to find a containment postion on black side and I took PC Mercer back to our transit and equipped him with body armour. We then went to the black side of the building and were unable to find a containment postion because of the density of the hedgerow.

PC Mercer and myself ended up by a barn on black green corner...

Prior to the entry to the building PC Mercer was relieved."

So dog handler PC Mercer [and his dog, or why ask for a dog handler?] were in the cattle shed on white/green corner with Jeremy Bamber.

Which seems to agree with:


MASTER OVERVIEW LOG

0458hrs (wireless message log and communications log)
Firearms team and dog unit off at scene

0459hrs (LOG 1)
HQ units arrive (2 x transits) plus CG6 (PC’s Lay and Batchelor) plus dog unit (PC 1422 Mercer) PS Adams incharge of firearms unit.

0508hrs (LOG 1)
Fireamrs unit to house.

0512hrs (LOG 1)
Request for dog handler.

0515hrs (LOG 1)
Dog handler return for flack jacket and return to house.

0842hrs (LOG 1)
Dog unit from scene (PC Mercer)

[Nuala]

So David Shaw and Scott Lomax were both correct in stating that a sniffer dog was taken up to Jeremy.

[NewChilledOutHartley]

So David Shaw and Scott Lomax were both correct in stating that a sniffer dog was taken up to Jeremy.

Unfortunately not. If you can find any reference to a 'sniffer dog', then let's see it please.