initially having offered to conduct a thorough search the next morning , leigh was eventually persuaded by arts urgency - and also by the threat that he would go looking by himself if he didnt obtain any assistance from the police - and by five oclock that afternoon a team of three uniformed constables , leigh himself , art , and rupinder , who insisted on accompanying art in the capacity of nursemaid and general minder , were assembled at one of the car parks adjacent to the woods , as close as it was feasible to get , by car , to the point where art recalled hearing the cry , which he had now convinced himself was the sound of a man in need of assistance .