We know that DCI Harris used a landline inside the farmhouse at about 8.15am, to speak directly with ACC Peter Simpson, and that this conversation lasted some 15 minutes or more whilst Sheila was relocated upstairs on the bed, in time for the police surgeon, Dr Craig, at 8.44am, to be in a position to pronounce her as being dead, her body being at that stage 'on the far side of the bed'! I know that some amongst us say that what Craig really meant to say was that at 'that' time, 'Sheila's body was on the bedroom floor on the far side of the bed', but it makes no sense of the fact that by 9.05am, when Stan Jones and Mick Clark visited the main bedroom, they saw the bodies of Sheila Caffell and June Bamber both laid side by side on top of the bed, with the rifle resting on the bed in between their bodies, and that Sheila had a bible on her chest!
On top of all of this, along comes the 2nd team of SOCO, compromising of Ron Cook, DS Davidson, DC Hammersley and PC Bird, who arrived at the scene by 9.20am, at the very latest, who are kept out of the farmhouse whilst senior officers and the 1st team of SOCO *(DC Henderson and DC Oakey), carry out 'informatives' which are finished by around 10.00am...
Cook and his team, are invited into the farmhouse at around 10.00am, but PC Bird does not start taking photographs inside the farmhouse until after 11.00am...