Remember this when the BBC went to town over police corruption and the shredding of the evidence?

New details about the mass shredding of documents relating to a corruption inquiry in the Metropolitan Police have been uncovered by BBC News.

It is understood the inquiry produced a “lorry-load” of material and that the shredding took place over two days.

Ah well…seems ..er…they may have got that wrong.

Danny Shaw on Derbyshire’s show today (around 10:50) is now saying that far from it being a lorry load of documents it may have just been 4 bin bags full.….not only that but it isn’t clear, he tells us, if that was just the paper documents being shredded after having been copied to computer database somewhere.

Regardless of that the BBC’s original story [‘Uncovered by BBC News!!!!’] was full of holes even then as we revealed:

Bang To Rights!

From the Ellison inquiry……

‘There are very few documentary records capable of providing insight into the veracity of Mr Francis’ claim that he was “tasked to find intelligence that might be used by the MPS to smear the Lawrence family”.  A number of possible explanations have been advanced as to why.

These include the suggestion that incoming intelligence reports were routinely destroyed after SDS office analysis and intermittent ‘document review’.

As with other MPS records, it does not appear that any clear records were ever kept of what was being destroyed.  Accordingly, in our view little weight can be attached to the fact that no record can be found to confirm any relevant aspect of claimed SDS activity.’

Routine destruction is one of ‘a number of possibilities’…but it is the one the Review highlighted…presumably as the most likely…..and the one the BBC ignores….despite the Review suggesting ‘ little weight can be attached to the fact that no record can be found to confirm any relevant aspect of claimed SDS activity.‘

The BBC is attaching quite a lot of weight to the allegations….there may be substance to them but the BBC looks to have already found the Met. guilty.