One bizarre thing is that the reason given for there being no CCTC record of what happened in Stcokwell is that on the previous day, after the failed bombings, the police had removed the discs from the recorders, to look at them, but had not ensured that new discs were inserted.

The family's representatives have described the police activity in this case as "Laurel and Hardy". I think Keystone Kops is more appropriate. But what is really strange is that in the way they dealt with the earlier bombings they had done a pretty good job.