Some 50 police officers were called to a flat in Leatherhead, Surrey, after it
was reported that a man had been seen there with a loaded handgun.
Despite surrounding the flat, sealing off the area, and making contact with the
suspect by phone, the man, described by the police as being 6' 5" tall,
weighing over 17 stone, with a shaved head and two gold front teeth ( the
archetypal "brick s--thouse" ), had disappeared from the flat when it was
entered after an 8 hour siege.
How ?
If you have any information; please contact Crime Stoppers, or David Blaine.
The Police Get Their Man
The police finally got their distinctively described suspect, but only after
he voluntarily turned himself in to the police.
He was subsequently charged with possession of a firearm, common assault and
actual bodily harm.
It appears that the police had evidence from a 'reliable informant' that the
suspect was in the flat, and having contacted their suspect by mobile phone,
asking if he was in the property they had surrounded, he may have told
them he was, when he was somewhere else entirely.
What a cad !
But the police cannot be faulted for taking whatever steps necessary to prevent
a possible danger to the public, and the pupils at the three nearby schools
which were closed during the siege were probably very grateful for the day off.
And Surrey Police are probably less embarrassed about the incident than they
were when having to apologise for the delay in getting an ambulance to take the
Countess of Wessex, Prince Edward's wife, to hospital to give birth ...
When they put the carefully planned security operation to deal with the event
into effect, they failed to ensure an ambulance was actually called.
Of course, Surrey Police's greatest embarrassment may turn out to be its
handling of investigations into a number of supposed suicides of Army
recruits at Deepcut Barracks.
