Report Summary
Issued 27 June 2025, this FOI response provides some information held by Forensic Services in relation to a production in this case, and explains why images held are exempt from disclosure.
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Request
Your request for information dated 13 June 2025 is copied below.
In previous FOI responses issued by SPA (Check FOI 2023/24-070, 2024/25-028, 2024/25-040R, 2024/25-052, 2024/25-064R) you acknowledged that staff images of the Police search of the skip, in relation to the murder of Jodi Jones, were held by yourselves but that no images of the item they were sent to find and recover (the knife and tip of the knife) were ever held by the SPA.
Based on that, where did the very detailed description of the yellow plastic knife come from if there were no images of it held by the SPA?
When did the SPA receive this information about the yellow plastic knife?
Why did nobody in the SPA notice or flag that although there were images of the Police staff carrying out the search there were no images of the item (the knife) they were sent to find and recover, which by any reading was the whole point of the search. This seems to suggest two separate failings, first from the Police and then from the SPA.
Can the SPA release the images that they do hold, by redacting/blocking out the faces and any possible identifiers, of the officers/staff carrying out the search as important information may have been captured in the images?
