16/05/96 - STATEMENT of GRAHAM TOMLINSON

NAME: GRAHAM TOMLINSON
AGE / DATE OF BIRTH: 21 100

Who states:- This statement consisting of 002 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 in it anything which I know to be false or do not believe to be true.

DATED: 160596
G TOMLINSON (SIGNED)

I am a Police Constable in the Staffordshire Police Service currently stationed at Burton on Trent. Between 1O3O hrs and 1115 hrs on Thursday 160596 I was on plain clothes duty when in the company of other officers I attended *****, Yoxall. Burton.

Upon arrival at the address other officers were already inside, also present was a woman I now know to be Sarah DARLASTON. A search of the address was conducted during which I acted as exhibits officer. I was subsequently handed seized property which I recorded contemporaneously on form P6.

Which I can produce as an exhibit ref. GT1 (exhibit no. ). I later booked the exhibits into the Property Store at Burton Police Station, ref. no. 347751. At about 1050 hrs during the search of DARLASTON's bedroom, the telephone rang, which DARLASTON answered using the extension in her bedroom.

I heard her speak to the caller saying, "They are taking me away". DC HUNT then disconnected the call. He said to DARLASTON, "Who was that?" She replied. "Tracey." DC HUNT said, "Tracey who?" She replied, "ROULSTONE." DC HUNT said. "Where's she from?" She replied, "St Johns Road."

DC HUNT then conducted an 1471 BT enquiry and I heard him relate the telephone no. 01543 *******. DARLASTON was then conveyed to Burton Police Station. At 1600 hrs the same day at Burton Police Station I handed all the exhibits to Sgt LOTE.

G TOMLINSON SIGNED
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DATE: 160596
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