As others have explained its a complete mess this case and all this confusion about timelines is not helping find Lewis. Theres not much we can take on face value. Friends/family say he was on a much later train and the CCTV we have at Waterloo, they say is Sat 11pm not Sunday 11pm which the police put out.
Again not really a proper timeline from the families point of few has been put out. If it was any police mistakes i was hoping that the Met police would of been on this with a big campaign. This has not happened at least publicly. Time is pressing and the safety of the welfare of Lewis is becoming more uncertain.
I also hope that the low key actions from the friends/family in recent days that there is something we might not need to be so worried about Lewis. They were all over SM at the beginning, thats why i posted the thread.
I agree, and it's not really clear why there would need to be so much ambiguity. Supposedly, he was seen chatting to two blonde women both on the platform at Southampton and on the train, so that implies that the train he got on is definitely known. Likewise, cctv footage is timestamped, even if that's been cropped from the image being propagated by the police and msm, so what date it's from is a known thing. It was also said upthread that he had no money to buy a fresh train ticket, and yet then we were told that his bank card had been used by a third party - the implication being that he
did have a means of payment on him originally, even if that now seems to have been misappropriated. So there has been a lot of misinformation, possibly from more than one source - it's hard to say as not everyone is citing their sources - and it really isn't helping in an investigation that already had the appearance of a search for a needle in a haystack.
I had hoped by scouring the traffic cams around Waterloo, I might be able to come up with a slightly later last sighting and perhaps also find an indication of what direction he headed in. I haven't found anything yet but, as I predicted, the area is well served and there's a lot of footage to go through.
How's this for an idea. It's not uncommon for cctv timestamps to remain the same all year round and not be changed for BST. What if the image of Lewis arriving at Waterloo is timestamped just after 11pm on Saturday 31st July, as his family maintain, but the police, realising that the cctv is an hour out, have (correctly) announced he was last seen on Sunday 1 August, but neglected to add that that now means he arrived at 0001h onwards, not 2301 onwards?
The 2230 from Southampton on Saturday arrived at Waterloo at 0011 on Sunday (and as a point of interest originally left Poole at 2142). If Lewis left Southampton later than supposed, or
was on the wrong train originally and then doubled back but missed his Basingstoke stop (perhaps because he was chatting to the woman in the cctv image) he could plausibly have been on that train and arrived in the small hours of Sunday - which means I'm looking at the wrong set of images and need to start again (sob).
I've contacted Hants Police several times now asking for clarity about the trains and times, but no reply as yet. I'll update the thread if/when they do.
JMO
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