(699) POLICE INVESTIGATION RESULTS IN A HAPPY MEDIUM
The trial of Vincent Simpson, accused of murdering Elizabeth McCabe in 1980, has shed light on some more esoteric police practices in evidence-gathering. Former senior detective Norman Robertson gave evidence that the police had visited what was described as a trance medium” a month after the body of Ms McCabe was found in February 1980. At the time Robertson was a detective constable. He recalled that there had been subdued lighting and that officers had held hands although