moonsafari
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Snelling did drive a light blue older style Ford Focus (think you alluded to this in your blog). There is one on his mother's drive in the 2012 googlemaps and when his house was searched and he was arrested in 2014, it was on the drive and remove for forensics. But you're right, it doesn't explain the odd circuitous route other than he thought a lot of CL and was prepared to go out of his way (using the route suggested) to collect her. This would explain police interest in him, especially if they were steered in his direction.
I worked Thursday to Sunday before moving to Sheffield and clocked that he arranged to give her a lift to work usually on Mondays. As a lab tech it is plausible, but not that plausible, that he started work early on Mondays. If he didn't, perhaps he had an early Monday morning hobby that meant giving Claudia a lift was not as out of his way/gestural as you might first suspect. Otherwise it does suggest he was quite fond of her, he seemed to be......