How difficult was that decision to exhume the bodies?
It was a very difficult decision. We were aware from very, very early on, even when we were dealing with the death of Kathleen Grundy, we were aware of just how difficult it would be for family members to cope with us asking, or telling them, that we proposed to apply for an exhumation warrant. Because of that, we made sure that people were kept well-informed of developments, about what was going to happen, how the investigation would progress. We were also conscious of the fact that we needed to justify that application to the coroner – not only to the coroner but also to the families. It was a huge risk in a way because you had the eyes of the world’s press on you at the time? Of course that’s something you just have to deal with, through careful investigation of these deaths, we became confident that we could justify our actions in relation to making applications to exhume these bodies. I mean this is not a decision that we took willy nilly. We were very, very conscious of just what
