Essex police were too clever for thier own good, since in order to conceal the full extent ot photographs which had been taken in connection with the Bamber case investigation, contained in 'THE SENIOR INVESTIGATING OFFICERS ALBUM', consisting of 581 photographs, they got PC Bird to produce a false and misleading, 'MASTER COPY ALBUM', consisting of only 223 photographs, which they fooled everyone into believing contained all the photographs taken in the investigation, even though a total of 358 other images were concealed from Bambers legal team, by so doing...
PC Bird then further complicated the matter, by producing a 'COURT ALBUM', which consisted of 50 pre-selected photographs taken from the 'MASTER COPY ALBUM', with a view to try and confuse everyone about the actual order that all the photographs contained in'THE SENIOR INVESTIGATING OFFICERS ALBUM (581) had been taken, the order with which the 223 photographs contained in the 'MASTER COPY ALBUM', had been taken, and the order with which the 50 photographs contained in the court album were actually taken...
What PC Bird did, was to produce a dual schedule, showing the order which the photographs (50) had been taken in, against the order of the 223 photographs listed in sequential order, in the 'MASTER COPY ALBUM', when all along the 223 photographs which compromise of the 'MASTER COPY ALBUM' may not have been listed in sequential order to start off with. What was required was for all 581 photographs contained in the 'SENIOR INVESTIGATIN OFFICER ALBUM', to be listed in order, along with the corresponding negative reference number, so that when PC Bird create the 'MATER COPY ALBUM' (223), the negative references for all photographs contained within it, could be checked to identify the sequential order in which photographs were taken, in any album produced, or referred to, thereafter...
For some reaon, police did not want anyone to know the exact sequence that all 581 photographs were taken in, particularly those taken at the scene on 7th August 1985 - this was because of interference with the bodies of the victims by police officers engaged in a training exercise, with bodies of victims still in situ...
