It wasn’t poor at all. It was deliberate. The first on scene officers were removed from the investigation with the intervention of someone from another station, SD Fillery How a mere sergeant was allowed, to by pass more senior officers is at the least ‘Interesting’ and goes back as far as Brink Matts and the Daniel Morgan murder. At that time there was massive corruption in the Met.
Dobson and Norris, and another suspect Jamie Acourt came from families that were involved in crime, especially in South London. Fillery and others were on the take….so the investigation was steered in another direction.
There’s a book which gives an account of what was going on in the Met over period of many years including the Lawrence case.Unfortunately it’s between £60-£100 a copy, which is good considering a few years ago it was £250+ for a used paperback
I got lucky when a Kindle edition came out.
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