[Shasown]

Originally Posted by angus58

If that is true then the Police are remiss in not having searched ALL the neighbours' flats immediately Jo went missing - never mind waiting till they found a body. They won't find anything now.

Interesting too that he is an architect with close links to the company Joanna worked for, his girlfriend is very similar looking to Joanna and his particular field of expertise is as a people flow analyst.

If only life were that simple.

The police are bound by the very laws they uphold, they cant just search someones property without evidence, if the evidence is only a vague suspicion of a crime having been committed in a property there are certain procedures they have to follow.

In the event of the property owner not being available to give permission for a search they would have needed to obtain a warrant, in which case they have to prove to a senior officer that they had good reason to search.

I note in some reports it says the man had just returned from holiday, they may have needed to speak to him again to confirm something he had possibly already told him, prior to launching a full scale forensic search of his pad.

Due to the high profile of the case and the ever present presence of the media they will have been conducting this investigation by the book.