Part Six: Searches/Early Police Investigation.
So when the jacket was found the police attended the scene and began a short search of the marshes.
They searched on foot and used a helicopter to look around for any thing that could find Ambrose nothing would be found.
Searches
The police would start their search from the jacket and work there way down to where the canel and rivers meet over a two day period.
On the fist day of the jacket find the helicopter would pick up a heat source of a man who had been sleeping rough but that's all that would be found regarding any human.
A Crime Scene Officer (Forensics) would turn up in them blue suits they wear at crime scenes where evidence is taken but they failed to take any photos of those "footprints" leading from the jacket to the canel nor did they collect any finger prints from the gates that he may have touched as he made those "footprints" that led into the canel there's a steel gate there he may have touched it if he had come down there like they say.
There is a question that surrounds what can only be described as a "canister" (breathing tool) being carried as the police went to look at the Brooke where the "footprints" led.
Why was there a need for a breathing tool? and What did they expect to find?
Logically it's the closes water source as it runs right next to the alleyway and would be the first water source searched by police right down to Ferry Lane, you could easily fall into the Brooke if you don't follow the path close to the power-station fence as there's nothing preventing you from going into the water so they expected to find a body there and not where it was found nearly three months later.
The only logical reasons they would firstly have forensics on scene and then a "canister" being carried is they were expecting to find something, logic tells you that one because it was searched first and then what would be the need for those units to be there and the equipment bought? There's none as he's only a "low risk misper" at this point it only was raised after the jacket was found and searches were conducted.
The police would use a search dog that only could trace for "four hours" this would be stated by the police in their evidence so why use a dog of that nature when the man had been missing over 50 hours what was the point of that, But then there is no such dog as dogs do not search on timeframe they search on scent which was never given to the dog so what did the police expect this "four hour dog" to find with nothing to search from.
The dog paid "no attention to the jacket" because it was never given anything to compare it with if Ambrose had worn that jacket his scent would have still been on it, the same as when the dog wet into the marshes what was it sniffing for it weren't even given that jacket to sniff before heading off for its search.
The police could have used the tacksuit that was handed into Colindale police station that very morning that had Ambrose scent on it as he used it to work out in, but the police didn't even bother to use it so the dog found nothing due to not have been given anything.
The police are thick a "four hour dog" when they work off skin rafts that drop from us ie given us a scent that can be followed for days depending on the weather!
But here's Sharon Freeman-Woods explaining the dog herself........
But if they thought he had entered the water why didn't they use the "drowned victim recovery dog"
The search that day lasted just under an hour with nothing else found but the jacket and footprints and the police stopped due to lighting.
Haringey Homicide and Serious Crime Unit would take over on the 27th Jan 2015 the Tuesday where the police would search the river navigation which found nothing apart from an axe.
They would extended their search to further down river and again they find nothing in the waters.
The last search conducted would be in late March four weeks before the body would be found in the April in a river the police failed to search over all the searches they never once checked this water source the River Lea.
Why were officers never instructed to search the River Lea?
Because logically they searched the closes points of entry into the closes water sources the Pymmes Brooke and the River Lea Navigation, not one senior officer would have told them to search that other area as it didn't fit in with their fabricated facts from where the car, jacket and footprints are found logically it just doesn't make sense not if you know them marshes and how the body was found (Part Seven we talk about the body find).
Early Investigation
(Feb, March, April)
The police made a missing persons appeal to which wrong info would be released they had the wrong date, car as Silver when it was grey, Sedge Road as the crash location when it was Leeside, tattoo was a rose not the word legend as that had covered over and they still hadn't corrected the info as on the second appeal the information was the same.
This appeal is three weeks before the body is found.
The tattoo being wrong.
The police knew it had been covered over by a "rose" but still allowed the word "legend" to be printed without correcting it.
This has to be one of the worse fuck ups the police did concerning appeals made I mean the 14th January when it was the 24th.
Ok could of been a typo but really they sent this out twice the same date they said the 14th but with different description of what happened.
The police did apologise at the inquest for the fuck ups but still at the time it didn't help his case.
The police also said there had been a "break in communication between stations" regarding the information but Cad details show they knew about events at the Fox, the car crash before the jacket was found, had attended his mums house to get DNA before any missing person's report went in only to be given a fake "toothbrush" from a totally different property.
The CCTV footage from the fox had already been handed over to the police on the Saturday morning as the family had "asked" to view it which was denied they were then told the "police" had already taken it same as the footage from the shop on Bowes Road the cameras weren't "working" again the family were told this when they "asked" to view their CCTV and the last image handed over by police emerges and is from them same cameras and becomes the final sighting of Ambrose alive.
The family view CCTV from the pub only after asking to as "witnesses" were saying things that were contradicting each other so the family asked to view it and were shown the edited version a 20 minute break down of events the police felt relevant to show.
It then became clear their was something up with events that surround that morning and what really happened to Ambrose, this weren't a simple crash and missing person.
The family couldn't identify Ambrose leaving as on the CCTV the male was bigger and we do know cameras add pounds but they don't take away physical elements to a person like a "limp" which the person getting into the car didn't have but Ambrose did so where did the limp go as it was visible in other parts of the footage but when he leaves it's not!
The police were being cagey as for six months they withheld footage they had collected they left out several attacks and movements of Ambrose in and outside of the Fox Pub along with witnesses statements that were altered/changed three times throughout their investigation none of this information became available until after the body was found even then the police still withheld footage until the pre inquest hearing when they were ordered to present the full unedited CCTV to the family which we will talk about in detail within the next post.
But here's a few extracts from an audio of a CCTV viewing (police and the family)!
