Senior officers were in control of the scene at the scene before SOCO got a look in. Later that evening, senior officers were in control of the debrief held at Witham, where they insisted that everyone present should write thier notes up as though the operation had been one involving 4 murders and a suicide. Photographic evidence taken at the scene before and after SOCO took control of the scene was tampered with, and separated into three basic albums. The defence were only either given or offerred access to only two of these photo' albums, a third album (THE SENIOR INVESTIGATING OFFICERS ALBUM) was kept under lock and key inside ACC Peter Simpsons office safe, it consisted of 581 photographs, 358 more than existed in the so called, "THE MASTER COPY ALBUM) which only had 223 photographs contained in it, and 531 more photographs than existed in "THE COURT ALBUM" which only had 50...
Senior officers were in control of the proposed cover up surrounding the true circumstances of how Sheila was actually shot twice, rank and file officers were told or ordered what to do, what to say, and how to present thier own supposed accounts of the operaration in the investigation...