Another day , and no closer to located Mrs Murphy's body.. Silence from the accused. . ...In Australia , his solicitor ( attorney) would not be advising him to stay silent on the matter, as a 'bargaining chip'.. This would be classified as a crime , and the lawyer would be disbarred. Once the police ask for information in regard to a murder, and information is withheld, ( since the police are not suggesting, they are directing you ) .. that's a felony..
He has no bargaining chip, in all reality, VICPOL wouldn't give lowering the charge a seconds thought, it's murder, he has to deal with it, VICPOL can wait, and they'll search until Kingdom come before watering down any charges currently underway..
They would be consulting the family, ... it would not be a decision in a vacuum, but the prevailing view would be to let him stew. Some theories about him being too ratted out to remember where he put the body are feasible, but this makes him even more dangerous, a bloke who can kill and not remember, ... ye gods.. ..
It is hard to tell with any certainty what Mr S. 's current frame of mind is, and I doubt that he is in Gen Pop in the remand centre.. ( lots of people walk past the Remand centre in Melbourne, not knowing, it's that grim grey skyscraper on the corner of Bourke and WIlliam St, just down a bit in William St, the defendants come to court in a sort of horse float truck, it drives up Bourke very slowly. ) He would not be allowed to be mixing with the other men on Remand, I don't think, for his own safety, and , I suppose, for theirs, because who knows...
I do honestly think that VICPOL will find that body with or without any input from the accused, it's not their first rodeo, they have methods and processes that he knows nothing about..
