India99 - In your opinion, having lived in the same estate (glad you got out btw!) if someone stuck their head up up the opening and took a brief look around would they just see a water tank, and no other nooks and crannies? This is assuming that there was nothing else stored there. And would the tank be large enough to hide a body from view? I'm thinking it would have to be a pretty big tank to completely obscure something from view.
the first time i went up into the loft in the house i lived in it was so dark up there i could hardly see much even with a torch but you could make out the end of the roof etc.
the only part you couldn't really see was in the line of site of the water tank that was probably about 10 feet or more from the loft hatch so i would imagine if it was behind there it would have easily been missed.
i would also hazard a guess that it would have to be put in a way that it didn't touch the actual ceiling or it would have fallen through, i'm going to assume it didn't have a floor up there or it would have been easy for a copper to just jump up there and walk around.
the real irony about me not living there any more is because i split with my now ex wife(who moved from there a few months later too) but she moved some bloke in she met on the internet and at the time i told her that she had to be careful etc..............well, lets just say that could be my daughter instead.
luckily it wasn't and the bloke she lives with now is not that bad of a bloke to be honest so i don't think i'd have too much to worry about but i'll never trust him as far as my daughter is concerned, but then she has 4 older brothers who will sort him out before anything else happened.
Yes i have 5 kids, all mine , all with the same woman and i even married her before we had the first one, yeah i know, i'm weird lol