Heidi Blake

This undermined the integrity of a crucial piece of evidence and the prosecution's case that it was Jeremy who propped the Bible in its odd position against Sheila's arm as part of his staging of the scene.

But the CCRC dismissed what Neil Davidson had told me.

They said he couldn't say for sure that Cook had put the Bible back in the wrong place.

Despite those notes I'd found from members of the firearms squad who said the crime scene photos seemed to show the Bible in a different place than where it had been when they first found Sheila dead.

And again, the CCRC hadn't managed to speak to Neil Davidson to ask him about it.

Natalie and I were flabbergasted by this.

And how hard is it really to speak to this guy?

He's a very easy guy to find.

Go and knock on his door.

And then it says, the apparent statement by former DS Davidson that DI Cook picked up and then incorrectly repositioned the Bible, if accurate, does not, in the CCLC's conclusion, change the previous understanding of the crime scene to such a degree that it is possible to conclude that the jury might have reached a different verdict if they had known of it.

What?

Yeah.

So the CCRC was saying, even if Ron Cook had put the Bible back in the wrong place, it just wasn't important.

This was an extraordinary position to take.

Even the Court of Appeal had acknowledged when it last heard Jeremy's case in 2002 that any disturbance of the scene by police officers, had it really occurred, would have been, quote, a moral sin.

But back then, judges said there was no evidence that this had happened.

Now, I had an eyewitness account that Detective Inspector Ron Cook had egregiously rearranged the scene around Sheila's body.

And yet the CCRC, whose job it was to root out miscarriages of justice, was saying this just didn't matter.

I got to the part of the document where the CCRC addressed the most revelatory new finding of all, the 999 call.

The one Nick Milbank had told me came from inside the manor just after 6am, when Jeremy was standing outside with police.