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Originally Posted by Derek
If the house is empty and a warrant is obtained they won't wait until the occupier comes back home. The warrant empowers the Police to force entry. There needs to be some evidence of criminality before a warrant is granted, there isn't just a stack of them sitting about waiting for a celebrity to move to the area so they can punt his door in. To stop rumours for a start. The press etc would know fine well a search was ongoing thanks to neighbours and twitter. A Police press release gets the facts straight before the Internet gossip squads can start.
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I can understand searching premises where there is an allegation of theft or something involving a physical object eg drugs, but what physical evidence after all this time could there be about this specific allegation? They seem to just look on the off chance there is evidence of unconnected offences.