Frank was offered replacement clothing on Sunday March 9th and almost immediately asked the uniformed officer at the cell door that Basil Mellon (Frank's solicitor) be informed. Within minutes of this request he was taken to an interview room by Detective Inspector Brian Ord and Detective Sergeant Ramshaw. No record was made at this point of the request to see his solicitor. Instead, there was a long interview, during which Ramshaw supposedly took contemporaneous notes.
Frank maintains that the first part of the interview was taken up by exactly this issue: police failure to write down any kind of record of what was being said.
A comparison should be made between the police version of this interview and Frank's version: