Surely you obviously knew before the O'Connor report in 2006 that something else had gone on back there. I'm a bit incredulous that a police officer with 36 years' experience could make such a mistake of transferring knowledge gained in 2006 to a situation in 2002 in a matter that serious. I have not been a police officer, but I would think that I would have gone back and checked my notes, which surely I or somebody else under my authority would have kept at the time, to verify whether the knowledge gained in 2006 was really knowledge they had in 2002. I have a hard time accepting the fact that you could make such a mistake of transferring knowledge to four years previously.
On December 5th, 2006. See this statement in context.