Well, he COULD have colluded with others, as in "Oi Mate, what did you put for that?" OR he could have bluffed it OR he could have lied. He can't be accused of doing any of those things.
Police rules and regulation stipulate that every officer must make pocketbook entries directly into his pocketbook , detailing the duties he performed, any breaks, and the time he went off duty. Now, just to hit the nail on the head, so to speak, it suggests very strongly that PC Collins was never present at the farmhouse, to carry out the duties and observations he claims to have made, otherwise he would have made a relevant pocketbook entry. Why does PC Collins leave two pages in his pocketbook, sandwiched between his entries, dated the 6th and the 8th August, 1985, completely blank?
He did so, I would suggest, because he was never present at the scene. He did not report seeing a female body through the kitchen window before the raid team entered the farmhouse, and he did not rectify that mistake once he was supposed to have entered the main kitchen, by supposedly realising that the body he thought was a dead female, was in fact the body of Ralph Bamber. Fact is, no entry in his pocketbook, exposes the lies he has been introduced into the operation to tell, as nothing but lies, with no resemblance at all to the truth. PC Collins own pocketbook entries confirm that he was 'not on duty' at the scene at the time the siege was being managed, or entry was made to get inside...