Newthoughts
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I'm right with you on the Oak Road footage being important. It is the only thing directly released by LE. As far as I'm aware they are still waiting for the people shown.Hello everyone, been lurking since thread #2 and have been following the case since day one, thought I may as well chime in. It’s been a strange case- both circumstances and the investigation and LE have obviously been keeping things very close to their chests. But I think we can still read between the lines to deduce a few things.
1) Spidercam- 99.9% sure it’s PR and LS. As others have mentioned, ITV would not have aired it without LE’s approval (and editing suggests LE direction to ITV.) Also, LE say LS was near the bench until “around 12.09”- the car pulls away at 12.08.52.
2) Police response- the rapidity is striking. Possible that GB might have called 101 when he came across LS since she must have been in a bad way for him to notice and stop the car. The early LE statement says she was seen “near to” the bench, not on it. Perhaps she had fallen over, and GB stopped to help her onto the bench? But then that begs the question, if he did ring then why did LE appeal as they presumably had his details. Would explain the unusually fast response though.
3) Oak Road CCTV- I think this CCTV is more important than people might think. LE might be clutching at straws (hope not) but this is the ONLY footage they have released directly- everything else is withheld for “operational reasons” yet this was regarded as important enough to go public. What kind of ‘witnesses’ might these be? If they saw a crime taking place they would have reported it (anonymously if they were petty criminals) or come forward on day one; if they heard something- what did they hear? Screams have already been reported to LE, and they can almost certainly place PR in the park, so what other “crucial information” might these people have seen/heard?
4) LS location- highly doubt LS was ever in PR’s house as there would be some trace (might be relying too much on Locard’s exchange principle here) and that alone should be enough to charge him with kidnap. Can’t see any way he could excuse his way out of that. I think she WAS in the park (police focus suggests CCTV follows him there), and especially that bench which was investigated late at night. I would guess that PR must have told them about that since they responded immediately, and it was in the middle of his questioning. Unless he took her (alive) in his car somewhere else, I think the water is the most plausible scenario for where she ultimately ended up (but given the speed of the response and searches I would not have expected her to have gotten far.)
I’ll stop since I’ve already said more than I planned to. I know it’s re-treading old ground but there’s not much else to do atm. Hopefully there will be a breakthrough soon and we will be able to make more sense of this, and LS will be found.
What it's importance could be is beyond me.