 Following a Court disclosure order against Addleshaws, their IT department, then headed by a Peter Thompson, told the Court that they had found the relevant back-up tapes but were unable to play them (which the Court accepted).In view of that being extremely unlikely and of the serious and costly (over £1m) nature of this matter Mr Shaw requested that the police use their specialised IT resources to search those tapes.The police refused because they said that the Crown Court would be very unlikely to allow it given Addleshaws prior statement to the Court.