Who else here thinks that SP have totally mishandled this from the beginning, and are probably still mishandling it now?
I actually spoke via electronic communication to Corries mother in December (and I have the records of the conversations), and I contacted her to tell her I didn't believe the weights that had been presented to the Police and why I didn't believe them.
Obviously her reply, undoubtedly influenced by SP was that the weights were right.
My issue now is this:
If you are asked by the Police to provide weights of bins in an investigation into a person who went missing, and whose phone travelled the same route as your bin truck...
You KNOW that some people pay by the weight of the collected trash, and you KNOW that some people pay a fixed fee based on average weights or per collection...
Presumably the data was downloaded in some form of spreadsheet, and presumably if the customer is paying on an average weight basis / per collection basis, you know that the system will present a nominal figure as the recorded weight for bill calculation purposes, then...
Would you not at that point as a company, knowing there are different payment methods and billing options, actually CHECK what deal the people who owned that bin have, check that the weight you give the Police IS in fact the actual weighed bin and not the average, and MAKE SURE that the information you have provided is accurate?
I can't believe an entire company of people who ALL know it was their truck and their bin and that the weight measurement is critical - could possibly mess that up.
And clearly, since the Police DO now have the actual weight - it WAS recorded and that information was there all along.
I don't think the Police should write it off as "accidental" that they were given the wrong data, it simply can't have been missed, surely?
The salesperson who deals with that account would know what deal they have, and it would be on the system as well, and undoubtedly numerous other people would know as well.
SP are perhaps covering their own arses by covering other peoples - this is too big a mess to be purely accidental?