I found it strange that there was no contact between them over the weekend and that she hadn't returned his calls/spoken, given the fact that it was their first weekend apart but more particularly because of the bad weather. It would have been a long journey to and from Sheffield and I would have thought there'd have been some contact, even if just 'glad you got there okay' and 'give me a ring as you leave Sheffield.'
She was known to be haphazard in responding to calls and texts and her family has said as much. I am very similar myself, to the constant despair of my own family and friends.
Like has been said before, four hours is quite a long time for him to report her missing if he hasn't heard from her all weekend.
There's a difference between being worried and calling the police, and it's understandable that calling the police would have been a last resort when panic set in. I have been besides myself with worry on occasion when my boyfriend hasn't been where I expected him to be, but never called the police. I think we were also told that GR called his parents when he got home, mentioning that Jo wasn't around, and his mother told him not to worry.
And then there's Bernard the cat. I don't know much about cats but was there a catflap? If not, wouldn't the litter tray have been pretty full? Wouldn't it have been obvious he hadn't been fed?
On the litter-tray, my own experience with my cat is that sometimes the tray is used a lot in a short space of time, other times not. I only need to clear my cat's tray a couple of times a week on average. GR said the cat was "going mad" - perhaps yowling for food? But again in my experience my cat will claim starvation if we're only a few hours late with food - GR may just have believed Jo had been out all day.
How come the parents knew immediately she must have been abducted and yet he didn't?
Difference between turning up at 8pm and turning up at midnight after the police have been called? Also my reading of the parents' words around them realising something was amiss was that they could just have been talking about keys/mobile etc...coming on to which....
Her keys and mobile were in the flat for goodness sake!!
Reading Greg's statement at the first appeal, it says he waited until midnight, checked her bag, realised her phone and keys were there and then called the police. My understanding is that as soon as he knew all these items were in the flat, he called the police. This to me is what makes the difference between "she's perhaps spent the day at a friend's house, I wish she'd have let me know where she is though!" and "something is seriously wrong here...".
Is it not a bit weird that she phoned someone out of the blue on the way home to meet up that evening?
No I do similar things myself.
I can relate to JY and GR a lot, as I'm a similar age, in a similar situation of living with a boyfriend that I work with, owning a cat, sporty, don't answer my phone all the time... and I've not heard anything 'odd' in any of the details of their relationship, behaviour etc. They just seem like a normal couple in their twenties who had a healthy amount of independence from each other.
