I dislike the DM as a source, but in the interests of a swift reply:
Police dig up back garden and search gutters at home of neonatal nurse
That's her "£180,000 home" btw.
Thanks
@JuicyLucy,
I've seen it before but never paid much attention to the the content.
What I find unusual is that all the officers searching are in uniform and there doesn't appear to be a detective or forensic officer in sight.
Bear in mind that it took a whole year from when the police were notified before they arrested LL.
This may have been because the police delayed the arrest, because even though they had enough 'reasonable suspicion' to arrest earlier they wanted to get most of their ducks in a row before interviewing. Or they took a year to find enough suspicion to arrest LL.....it doesn't need much!
If they had reasonable suspicion of murder/attempted murder earlier they can't have been too concerned about losing evidence from both houses, a car and garden, because with arrest comes various powers and potential powers of search. It makes me think that no drugs, syringes, documents etc were found to be missing from the hospital.
Unless the uniformed officers were a specialist police search team (PolSA) who are trained in finding obscure objects in obscure places then it looks like a gaggle of uniformed officers sent to do the best on behalf of the CID.
In all the photos there is not one that shows an officer carrying an evidence bag, which is what any items of interest will be placed in, documented fully and sealed in situ.
Searches in serious cases would usually have a photographer, often doubling as scenes of crime, to photograph/video the item in situ before removing it into the evidence bag.
It all looks like a bit of an afterthought.....as though they didn't really expect to find anything of evidential value!