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Law Week 2019
Cluedunnit Kids Competition
Brief
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Lupo the Barking Gecko
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Ms Ellie Fant
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• My name is Ellie Fant and I am the Director of the Critter Lovers Animal
Welfare Shelter (CLAWS). During the long summer school holidays we
allow small groups of older children, aged between 13 and 15 years, who
are attending the Animal Rights Kids (ARK) holiday programme, to come
and visit CLAWS. Sometimes we have theme days and ask the children to
dress up. This makes the day more fun and we organise exciting activities
around the theme.
• On Friday, 18 January 2019 we hosted a group of 15 children from the ARK
and the theme was animal characters from their favourite books. The
young people all made a big effort to come dressed up in costume and they
looked great.
• The day started out well with a tour of CLAWS and talks about the animals.
The children got a chance to hold the animals and to ask questions.
Everyone was very well behaved and we had no problems.
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• After lunch the children got to choose which animals they would like
to learn more about and to work with and they split off into five
groups of three. There were no problems and all the children left
CLAWS at 3.30pm on a bus provided by the ARK.
• The only free time which the children had was at 3.00pm when we let
them have half an hour to wander unsupervised and have a snack
before they left on the bus.
• After I waved the children goodbye I closed the main gate and went into
the room where we keep the reptiles. To my horror one of the tanks
had been disturbed and we were missing a barking gecko called Lupo.
Lupo is a favourite of mine. We have had him as an educational reptile
for some time. I ran out and went to find Lionel Mayne who had been in
the reptile room with three of the children that afternoon.
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• Lionel was in the administration office. He ran back to the reptile room with
me. We looked everywhere for Lupo but we could not find him in the room.
We then decided to call the Police.
• At 4.00pm I met Constable Will De Beest at the entrance to CLAWS. I
showed him in to the reptile room. He had a close look at the cage and said
that he would call a forensic officer to attend.
• Constable Will De Beest then told me that he would go to the ARK and
make further enquiries there. A short while later a forensic police officer
attended and inspected Lupo’s tank and the surrounding room.
• At 6.00pm Constable Will De Beest rang me to say that he had found Lupo
and was bringing him back to CLAWS immediately. I was so relieved.
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Mr Lionel Mayne
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• My name is Lionel Mayne and I am an education officer and animal welfare
worker at the Critter Lovers Animal Welfare Shelter (CLAWS).
• On Friday, 18 January 2019 we hosted 15 children from the Animal Rights
Kids (ARK) holiday programme. The kids came to CLAWS dressed up in
costumes from their favourite books. In the afternoon I worked with three
children in the reptile room. I recall their names were Mia, Elle and Tye. I
recall that Mia was dressed as some sort of girly cat, Tye was dressed as a
penguin and Elle was dressed as a turtle.
• The children were very well behaved and they asked a lot of good
questions. They were confident around the reptiles although Mia was very
reluctant to hold any of them. Elle and Tye particularly liked the snakes and
they asked a lot of questions about the regulations and rules related to
owning snakes and reptiles generally. Tye had no fear of any of the reptiles
and even asked if we had any large spiders that he could hold!
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• None of the children were allowed to touch the reptile tanks or take the
snakes or lizards out. I always removed the reptiles for the children when
we looked at them and I always supervised them very closely when they
held them.
• I helped to supervise the ARK children during the free time break and I
recall seeing Mia, Tye and Elle at first. I specifically remember talking to
Tye about how good M&M’s are. He was eating a packet of them and kindly
offered me and Mia some. Mia told us that she was not allowed to eat them
because she is allergic to the blue colouring in them.
• After that the ARK kids scattered to wander around the exhibits on their own
and I don’t recall seeing Elle, Mia or Tye again. The reptile room was
closed and the children were told that it was out of bounds during the break
time. I closed the door to the reptile room and put a sign on the door which
said “Closed No Entry. Authorised Staff Only”.
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• At about 3.40pm, after the kids had all left on the bus, our Director Ellie Fant ran
in to the office in a complete state. She told me that our barking gecko, Lupo,
was missing. We ran to the reptile room and looked everywhere but he was
nowhere to be found. There was no trace of him. The only thing I found was
half a fairy bread sandwich with hundreds and thousands on it. It was outside
near the door of the reptile room and I picked it up and put it in the bin. I
assumed one of the kids had dropped it during the period of free time in the
afternoon.
• Ellie decided to call the Police.
• I kept looking for Lupo but he was nowhere to be seen. I went home at about
5.00pm.
• The next day I arrived at work and Ellie told me that Lupo had been found in a
lunchbox at the ARK and was back in his tank unharmed. I was so pleased.
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• My name is Will De Beest and I am a Police Constable at the Foxhole
Police Station.
• On Friday, 18 January 2019 at about 4.00pm I was tasked to attend the
Critter Lovers Animal Welfare Shelter (CLAWS).
• I met with the Director, Ms Ellie Fant, and an employee called Mr Lionel
Mayne. Mr Mayne told me something so I immediately rang the Animal
Rights Kids (ARK) and asked the Manager, Ms Liz Arde, to make sure that
three of the children called Mia, Elle and Tye remained at the ARK until I got
there. Ms Arde told me that the children were not due to be picked up until
5.30pm, with the exception of Elle, who was being picked up at 5.00pm as
her family were flying out to Bali for a holiday later in the evening and they
would be taking her directly to the airport. I said I would attend as soon as
possible.
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• Ms Fant then showed me to the reptile room where I inspected the lizard tank.
She told me that the tank had been home to a barking gecko called Lupo which
had been in the tank earlier in the day but had gone missing between 3.00pm
and 3.30pm when the children from the ARK had been visiting.
• I had a close look at the tank and I noticed what looked like a coloured smudged
finger print on the glass. I also noticed some material that looked like hairs or
fibres caught on the lid of the tank. I decided to get the forensic officer to do a
proper inspection of the room. I called the Foxhole Police Station to send a
forensics officer to attend. I took a photo of Lupo’s tank and a photo outside of
the reptile building.
• At 4.45pm I attended at the ARK. The three children who had been in the reptile
room earlier in the day were still there. They were all still dressed in their animal
costumes – Mia Khatt was dressed in a Hello Kitty costume; Tye Panne was
dressed in a black and white penguin costume and Elle Packer was wearing a
green turtle costume. I took photos of the children.
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• I asked to see their day bags. I took photos of the contents of each of their
bags. I then put the contents of each child’s bag into evidence bags, labelled
them and sent them for forensic testing. I labelled the contents of Mia Khatt’s
bag “WDB1”, the contents of Tye Panne’s bag “WDB2” and the contents of Elle
Packer’s bag “WDB3”.
• Ms Liz Arde, the Manager of the ARK, and I then did a thorough search of the
ARK. Ms Liz Arde was at the back of the centre near a storage shed when she
called out. I went over to her and saw she was holding a plastic lunchbox. It
didn’t have a lid but it was covered in plastic cling wrap with small holes
punched into it. Inside there was a small barking gecko sitting on some green
vegetation. The gecko appeared to be unharmed and I immediately took
possession of the lunchbox and rang Ms Fant at CLAWS to let her know that we
had found Lupo. The children had left by that time.
• I noticed that the outside of the lunchbox was a bit sticky. After I removed Lupo
and returned him to CLAWS I put the lunchbox in an evidence bag and gave it
to the forensics officer for fingerprint testing.
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Professor Ally Gatore
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• My name is Professor Ally Gatore. I am a forensics officer, working with the
Foxhole Police.
• On Friday, 18 January 2019 I attended the Critter Lovers Animal Welfare
Shelter (CLAWS) and examined a reptile tank. I noted that there was a
coloured substance or smudge on the tank. I took a swab of the smudge
and labelled it “AG01”.
• There were several fingerprints on the glass but they were all smudged as if
they had been wiped. I dusted the surface of the glass but there were no
usable fingerprints on the glass.
• On the lid of the tank were some fibres. I put them into an evidence bag
and labelled it “AG02”.
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• I took a photo of the reptile tank with the fibres and the coloured fingerprints
marked with yellow forensic arrows.
• On Monday, 21 January 2019 I received a number of items in evidence
bags. They were labelled as follows – “WDB1”, “WDB2” and “WDB3”. I
completed testing on the items in the bags and on the swab “WA01” and
compiled a report.
• I received an exhibit “WDB4” which was a lunchbox and a piece of plastic
cling wrap. I conducted a fingerprint and DNA examination of the lunchbox
and the plastic cling wrap and compiled a report.
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Ms Liz Arde
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• My name is Liz Arde and I am the Manager of the Animal Rights Kids (ARK)
holiday programme. It is a great job and I enjoy working with children during the
school holidays to teach them about animals and land conservation.
• On Friday, 18 January 2019 I took 15 children from the ARK to the Critter Lovers
Animal Welfare Shelter (CLAWS). I asked the children to dress up as animal
characters from their favourite books. The young people all dressed in various
costumes and they looked great.
• I helped to supervise the children on a tour of CLAWS and there were talks
about the animals. We had no problems at that stage.
• After lunch the children divided into five groups of three. They went off with staff
from CLAWS to have time with specific animals. After the afternoon tea break
and a short period of free time, we all left CLAWS at 3.30pm on a bus provided
by the ARK.
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• We arrived back at the ARK centre by 3.50pm. I recall that I told the children to
wash their hands. I am careful about hygiene – especially when the children
have been touching animals. Some of the children had really grubby hands. I
told Tye that he looked as if he had not washed his hands all day. He was
holding his day pack and he would not put it on the hooks with the other bags
When I asked him why he was holding his bag, he told me that his drink bottle
had spilt in his bag. I told him to empty it and wash it outside.
• I then went into the office to do some work and the other carers settled the kids
to watch a video or do quiet activities until their parents came. I recall Tye going
outside to wash his bag.
• Shortly after 4.00pm I had a phone call from Constable Will De Beest.
Constable Will De Beest told me that a barking gecko had gone missing from
the reptile room at the ARK and he needed to search our centre. Constable Will
De Beest asked me to keep Mia Khatt, Tye Panne and Elle Packer at the centre
until he got there.
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• Constable Will De Beest arrived at the ARK at around 4.45pm. He looked
at the children’s day bags and then I helped him to search the centre to see
whether we could find any trace of the missing gecko.
• Constable Will De Beest and I then did a thorough search of the ARK
centre. I was looking behind our storage shed when I noticed a plastic
lunchbox. It didn’t have a lid but it was covered in plastic cling wrap with
small holes punched into it. Inside there was a small barking gecko sitting
on some green leaves. I called out to Constable Will De Beest and he took
the lunch box and rang CLAWS. I noted that my hands were a bit sticky
after I had held the lunchbox.
• We do not currently have any CCTV installed at the centre. We are a “Not
for Profit” organisation and have limited funds. In 2018 we applied to the
Lotteries Commission for a grant to install CCTV. We were successful in
getting the money to install CCTV in April this year.
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Suspect – Mia Khatt
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Suspect – Tye Panne
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Suspect – Elle Packer
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