A visit to my child in Hull this weekend. Libby's bench has survived the storms - always heartbreaking to see and to see how close she was to safety. And chilling to see how very small the area in which PR operated was. People are still leaving flowers.
This time we stayed close to the Deep - where the River Hull (which flows from the park that the police searched) enters the Humber estuary (where her body was finally found). We even went to the beautiful nature reserve at Spurn Point which I think was close to where her body was found - or at least adjacent to it - tho I'm not clear.
For other non locals two things really stood out. The first was how busy that part of the River Hull is. It seemed to be fast flowing at that point (tho how much of that is due to the weather I don't know) but is surrounded by restaurants, pubs and shops and crossed by bridges. It's busy - I'm surprised her body wasn't seen there .
The second was just how shallow the Humber estuary appeared at low tide. It's clearly deep enough for shipping at high tide and, I guess, at it's centre but we were looking out at a large expanse of sand at low tide. Both from the Hull side and from Spurn Point on the opposite shore.
It looks like there were so many places there that her body could have been found if PR had left her in the river in the park