Another excellent point, the devil is in the detail.
Yes, the devil is in the detail, cops don't tell one informant (J) what another informant (dad) had told them, especially since J was speaking over the phone, and not face to face with PC West. Not only that but cops hadn't investigated what dad had told them (3.26am) by that stage (3.36am, or until after the arrival of the occupants CA07 arriving at the general scene at around 3.48am. With this in mind, and the fact that J had finished his 3.36am call to PC West by the time the occupants of CA07 arrived in Pages lane, you tell me what cops knew regarding the fact that anyone had fired a shot, or been wounded by the time J called West at 3.36am, because J certainly didn't tell PC West that at 3.36am, and dad didn't tell cops that anyone had been shot by reference to ' dads' 3.26am phone log. The facts are 'that two phone logs' existed, one timed at 3.26am, and the other timed 3.36am. It was 'never part of the prosecutions case', either during the October, 1986 trial, or the failed 2002 apoeal, that the 'contents of both these logs', related to the same call. If you have got that idea inside your head, then I for one do not know where you have got idea from. In the first call (3.26am) the informant is clearly identified as being 'dad' from the farmhouse, because he blurts out, 'my daughter has got one of my guns, and is going crazy', as opposed to the informant in the 'other' phone log timed at 3.36am, which identifies the caller as 'J', because the contents clearly state, ' your sister has got the gun and is going berserk'. Nothing could be any clearer...