WestLondoner
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DV's reasoning comes from two places I think.
One is that nothing credible in the way of contemporary evidence places SJL at Shorrolds. She didn't take the keys, her car was not seen there, the witness sightings are mutually contradictory, there's no evidence any Mr Kipper existed, the sketches of him disagree, if anything he looks like her boss who did go round there, and her car was probably not dumped at Stevenage Road until 5 o'clock. All the stuff supposedly pointing to Cannan arose 14 years later, after the police started a pointless investigation not to look at who did it, but to prove that Cannan did.
So from there, DV looks at where else she might have gone if it wasn't Shorrolds. She lost her stuff and it was found at the pub. She had also left her tennis stuff at home, 200 yards from the same pub. She needed to retrieve these bits and bobs because she had a tennis game at 7pm, but she also had another house viewing at 6pm.
She could not do the 6pm viewing then run the errands, otherwise she'd be late for tennis. Hence when she left the office at lunchtime, it must have been to run her errands - because per the above reasoning, she sure didn't leave it to show any house to any "Mr Kipper", but we know of two places she did need to go.
Which leaves only the question of where she went first. If she had gone to her flat first, her tennis stuff would not have been found in it, as it was. Thus, she must have gone to the pub first. There, DV infers she was abducted / intercepted and killed. It could have been on the way there; probably it was by someone she knew.
The BW sighting is indeed Barbara Whitfield, a work acquaintance who's sure she saw her that day with a man in her car she can't identify. The implication is that this man directed her somewhere, killed her, dumped her car well away from wherever this was, and himself vanished as mysteriously as she has.
The AS book of 1988 indicates she was involved with a couple in a business deal that turned sour. The female went on to become a sex columnist and self-help author; a minor celebrity who has, rather surprisingly, never wanted to capitalise or cash in on her closeness to SJL. The couple do not feature in DV's book, and nor does BW. The only person who features as associated with the PoW is 'Clive Vole' ('CV'), which is a pseudonym.
All of that last paragraph is missing from DV's book. It's not even acknowledged.
Initially I thought that DV was blaming CV by insinuation. He's the only person who was at the pub that he spoke to for his book. However, if DV actually suspects someone entirely different, then CV had nothing to do with it, and naming him would be libelling him. So he doesn't name him.
I have no idea what was up with AL unless, as we speculated above, the whole thing brought back unpleasant memories. Whenever this case has been re-aired it's always about the family and Cannan, never him, so maybe the whole thing was an unpleasant reminder of a very bad time for him.
One is that nothing credible in the way of contemporary evidence places SJL at Shorrolds. She didn't take the keys, her car was not seen there, the witness sightings are mutually contradictory, there's no evidence any Mr Kipper existed, the sketches of him disagree, if anything he looks like her boss who did go round there, and her car was probably not dumped at Stevenage Road until 5 o'clock. All the stuff supposedly pointing to Cannan arose 14 years later, after the police started a pointless investigation not to look at who did it, but to prove that Cannan did.
So from there, DV looks at where else she might have gone if it wasn't Shorrolds. She lost her stuff and it was found at the pub. She had also left her tennis stuff at home, 200 yards from the same pub. She needed to retrieve these bits and bobs because she had a tennis game at 7pm, but she also had another house viewing at 6pm.
She could not do the 6pm viewing then run the errands, otherwise she'd be late for tennis. Hence when she left the office at lunchtime, it must have been to run her errands - because per the above reasoning, she sure didn't leave it to show any house to any "Mr Kipper", but we know of two places she did need to go.
Which leaves only the question of where she went first. If she had gone to her flat first, her tennis stuff would not have been found in it, as it was. Thus, she must have gone to the pub first. There, DV infers she was abducted / intercepted and killed. It could have been on the way there; probably it was by someone she knew.
The BW sighting is indeed Barbara Whitfield, a work acquaintance who's sure she saw her that day with a man in her car she can't identify. The implication is that this man directed her somewhere, killed her, dumped her car well away from wherever this was, and himself vanished as mysteriously as she has.
The AS book of 1988 indicates she was involved with a couple in a business deal that turned sour. The female went on to become a sex columnist and self-help author; a minor celebrity who has, rather surprisingly, never wanted to capitalise or cash in on her closeness to SJL. The couple do not feature in DV's book, and nor does BW. The only person who features as associated with the PoW is 'Clive Vole' ('CV'), which is a pseudonym.
All of that last paragraph is missing from DV's book. It's not even acknowledged.
Initially I thought that DV was blaming CV by insinuation. He's the only person who was at the pub that he spoke to for his book. However, if DV actually suspects someone entirely different, then CV had nothing to do with it, and naming him would be libelling him. So he doesn't name him.
I have no idea what was up with AL unless, as we speculated above, the whole thing brought back unpleasant memories. Whenever this case has been re-aired it's always about the family and Cannan, never him, so maybe the whole thing was an unpleasant reminder of a very bad time for him.