I went to prison in December 1986 still protesting my innocence. At the end of January or beginning of February 1987 DS Morrison took the items he had removed from my shop to my co-defendant's wife (Mrs Rother) and tried to get her to sign for them. Mrs Rother refused to accept the items or sign for them and contacted my solicitor. These items have never been entered on the exhibits list and, I suspect, never onto my custody record, which is why the Police are so reluctant to allow me to see it. My solicitor contacted me in jail and told me of the items and I instructed him to accept them on my behalf, which he did. My solicitor also contacted one DS Banks at Tintagel House, an annexe of New Scotland Yard and a meeting was arranged between myself, my solicitor and DS Banks. Due to pressure of work my solicitor was unable to come to the prison so a day's parole was organised for me to travel to London and meet with the others at the offices of my solicitor. At the meeting were myself, DS Banks, my solicitor and another DS whose name I didn’t know. At this meeting DS Banks was taken aback at the way certain police officers had behaved and asked if he could take the items recently returned to me, so he could conduct an investigation. At first I refused his request but after lengthy discussion between all parties it was decided to let DS Banks have the items in question if he wrote out an inventory of the items and signed a receipt for them, which he did. I went back to the prison leaving the receipt with my solicitor for safe keeping.

I then asked my solicitor to defend me at appeal on the new evidence which I then had, he failed to do this and therefore the appeal was refused. I served the full 2 years of my sentence, I received no parole as I refused to show any remorse for a crime of which I am innocent.