Equally fruitless was the next night and the next but, finally on September 3, at 11pm, six men, carrying a long plank to access the
false roof, made their way to the school.
Scaffolding is now being put up to cover the interior and exterior, and a
false roof will be erected, ready for experts to remove the original roof and examine the full extent of the damage.
"In one instance, we stopped a Range Rover driven by two women which had a
false roof. The inside was lined with bundles of pounds, dollars and Dutch guilders.
Lee Bourn, 39, died after falling through a
false roof at the Lighthouse community centre in Oakfield Road, Anfield, where he was working as a volunteer in February 2010.
"When we came here the room had a
false roof and you couldn't see any of the beams.
The cannabis was part of a cache worth pounds 2million which was smuggled over from France in the
false roof of a Ford minibus.
Not surprisingly, it needed its
false roof and windows on one side as a sort of disguise in the troubled years that followed.