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Originally Posted by Shasown

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.

That's actually a good point, and I recall I also read a report saying that he had been on holiday. Additionally, I read that he hadn't been staying in the flat because of everything that had been going on.