Officers involved in the arrest were taken back to Kirkcaldy Police Office
A senior investigating officer told police who arrested Sheku Bayoh not to discuss his death with each other but to relax and watch TV, he told an inquiry.
He told the inquiry on Thursday: “I said to them basically: ‘Look, because we need to get an account from you, in what fashion because of the numbers and logistics involved, please don’t talk about it.'” Mr Robson said: “It didn’t sound like an order, and if it was then I went against it, I think it was like ‘Pirc are looking for them to be separated’.
“For every witness you would then need another officer to sit with, if not two, it came back to after the how would be the why,” Mr Robson told the inquiry.
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