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21/09/03 - Statement of Matthew
Harvey
WITNESS STATEMENT
(CJ Act 1967, s.9; MC Act 1980, ss.5A(3)(a) and 5B; MC
Rules 1981, r.70)
Statement of: Matthew HARVEY
Age if under 18: Over 18 (if over 18 insert 'over 18')
Occupation: Scenes of Crime Officer
This statement (consisting of pages each signed by me)
is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and I make
it knowing that, if it is tendered in evidence, I shall
be liable to prosecution if I have wilfully stated anything
in it, which I know to be false or do not believe to be
true.
Signature: M. Harvey
Date: 21st September 2003
I have been employed by the Lincolnshire Police as a Scenes
of Crime Officer since 1993. I am
registered with the Council for the Registration of Forensic
Practitioners as a Scene Examiner,
number 439.
On Saturday 30th August 2003 I attended The Old Coach
House public house, Bridge Foot, Market
Deeping, in relation to reported assaults. I took eight
photographs of the scene. These have been
produced in an album, police item MH1 (with a label attached,
which I have signed) indexed as
follows:
Photographs taken at The Old Coach House public
house. Bridge Foot, Market Deeping on 30th
August 2003 (MH1)
1. General view showing the front of the public house,
the bar entrance door is in the foreground.
2. View of glass bins at rear of public house.
3. View left in bar from entrance door with toilets and
dining area beyond and up two steps. Note the two bins
in foreground.
4. Floor in bar area near the two bins in photo 3. Glass
(police item MH2) was seized from this area.
5. View in dining area toward toilets. Glass (MH3) was
seized from this area. Also other glass (police item MH8)
was seized from the floor at the base of the toilets entrance
door.
6. View through main toilets entrance door. Gents in front,
ladies at right.
7. View left into ladies toilet from door. Blood on floor
and blood-stained paper towel can be seem.
8. View of sink over floor in photo 7. Bloodstained tissues
on tiles.
I retain the negatives.
I seized items as follows (each with a label attached,
which I have signed).
MH2 - Glass (from main bar area).
MH3 - Glass (from raised portion of bar area - i.e. dining
area).
MH4 - Batch control (A), Control (B - floor near toilets),
blood (C, D, E and F - floor near
toilets), control (G - ladies toilet floor), blood (H,
I and J - ladies toilet floor) swabs (in evidence
bag 0105558).
MH5 - Bloodstained tissues (to left of ladies toilet door,
in evidence bag 0105557).
MH6 - Bloodstained tissues (from behind ladies toilet
door, in evidence bag 0105556).
MH7 - Small clear plastic button with light coloured thread
from ladies toilet floor).
MH8 - Glass (from floor in toilets entrance).
I determined the presence of blood using a blood testing
kit, achieving a positive indication for
blood. On my return to Spalding Police Station, I placed
the above items into the secure scenes
of crime store.
At Market Deeping Police Station on Saturday 30th August
2003 I showed the button, police item
MH7, to Carole Margaret SMITH and Kenneth Marsh TURTON.
Both stated that the button did
not appear to have originated from their clothing.
I took two photographs of Ms SMITH, which form part of
an indexed album, police item MH9,
details later in this statement. I also took four photographs
of Mr TURTON, which form part of
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an indexed album, police item MH10, detailed later in
this statement.
Also at Market Deeping Police Station on Saturday 30th
August 2003, I took a DNA evidential
sample (police item MH11) from Kenneth Marsh TURTON (barcode
number 84458316). I
placed item MH11 in the secure scenes of crime store on
my return to Spalding Police Station
(with a label attached, which I have signed).
Signature: Matthew HARVEY |
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