CSIAngus
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I'll see if I can duck a few of your coconuts:Did they search Julie Hogg's house with cadaver dogs?
These officers working cadaver dogs are standing just yards away from the gates next to the fields / bridge over Car Dyke.
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I think vegetation would be dying back in October, and probably maintained year round if it is a field used for keeping horses.
For police to search the area I'm sure it was intelligence led, with the known cell site/GPS data of his 410 steps, and they wouldn't have done a half-hearted job, skirting around the woods. They would have been paying attention to areas that presented an opportunity to kill without being seen and then hide her body temporarily or permanently.
I think it's a good suggestion, a spot that ticks a lot of boxes, but if he killed her there I think we need to find explanations for the other facts to see where they fit in -
1. his phone was off for 1.5 hours before he phoned Sarah. why would he need 1.5 hours if he left her there? it's a long time for someone to get suspicious and notice an empty car parked up where it shouldn't be.
2. Sarah told police he told her his phone was dead and dropped into the footwell of the car. We need to ask what does the phone dropping into the footwell of the car have to do with anything? He can just pick it up again, but not if he's driving during the time the phone was off.
3. he admitted driving out to the Fens. (per @helenvic - "The jurors and ScW were shown onscreen maps of the route ScW was driving according to available phone data timings. He had to admit that this showed that he drove to the Fens. The prosecutor said, “Do you understand, Mr. Walker, that you have never said this before?”)
4. after the call to Sarah finished it took him 20 minutes to drive to McDonalds. Where was he in Gunthorpe when he made the call and what was he doing there? If he was driving from the beginning of the phone call it took him 29 minutes to get to McDonalds.
5. He returned to the lock-up for 10 minutes.
6. Around 11pm both parents went to the lock-up for 20 minutes.
7. 19th - at 2:47am Scott returned to the lock-up for 13 minutes, 172 steps.
8. 8 minutes after being at the junction of Fane Rd/Fulbridge Rd he'd parked and walked 8 steps. His phone didn't move for 2.5 hours. Why would he walk across the A15 with a spade in hand when he could just as easily have left his phone in the lock-up for safety and then driven to his destination, without looking suspiciously like he was out digging a hole at night? The phone is most likely being used as a decoy, the 8 steps was to put it somewhere, and he's driven away.
9. He returned to the lock-up for 23 minutes.
10. 20th - Both parents at the lock-up for 5 minutes before their trip to Cowbit leading to Glinton, followed by 1 hour 20 mins of unexplained activity - and it's most likely this night he's referring to driving out on the A47 with both their phones disconnected. Why did Sarah feign being asleep if there was nothing incriminating done in that time?
I could have used the more recent example of Tia Sharp hidden in the loft. The police are not infallible as we have seen in a number of instances in this case. I don't recall cadaver dogs being employed in the Julie Hogg case but that is an assumption as they would have found her at the start. Cadaver dogs are amazing but we don't know the exact survey area covered, or any othe factors that might affect the dog's accuracy. I assume they were used also used on ScW's car and the lockup.
1. You assume that she was killed at the beginning of the 1.5 hours and not near the end. It is not unusual for cars to be parked on either side of the road there.
2. Why would we accept that as truth and not just something he made up?
3. Why should we accept that he drove her off into 'the Fens'? There is no reported phone data beyond the Gunthorpe mast. He's also admitting to something that is not specific.
4. Perhaps he was just sitting in the car for a short while after phoning SaW. Perhaps he was contemplating what he had just done.
5. Yes, he went to the lock up for 10 mins. Perhaps that's when he put her bag there.
6. Yes. They both went to the lock up in the evening.
7. He did indeed. Perhaps he was digging out his spade.
8. Why would he want to drive to a very conspicuous location and have his car so visible for 2 and a half hours in the dead of night when he could leave it in an anonymous residential area and easily walk? 8 steps could be exiting the car and accessing the boot for the spade.
9. He went back to the lock up indeed. Perhaps he was cleaning his spade and changing clothes.
10. They did indeed return to the lock up at the beginning of their dead of night roadtrip.
