Delay may have hampered Barrymore inquiry

A police inquiry into the death of a man who was found floating in Michael Barrymore’s swimming pool may have been hampered by a failure to spot crucial evidence at an early stage, it was claimed today.

An investigation into the case of Stuart Lubbock by BBC Radio Four’s File on Four programme suggests that detectives may not have been working on the theory of asphyxia for the cause of death until much later in the inquiry.