As soon as the three officers entered the kitchen, it suddenly dawned on all three of them, that the police operation which moments before had appeared done and dusted, had somehow gone pearshaped! Sheila's body was missing from the kitchen! It had gone! Worse still, in their haste to move from the forward control point into the farmhouse, PI Montgomery had left his rifle with PS Adams! Harris, Gibbons, and Montgomery were trapped unarmed in the kitchen with the body of Neville Bamber!
At this point, PI Mntgomery adopted Commandership of the now ongoing operation, to find and locate Sheila Caffell, somewhere else inside the farmhouse!