KentLive 17,47
Occupant 'woke in the middle of the night and couldn't find Sarah'
An occupant of the house was interviewed by DC Lisa Roots and DC Deniz Aslan on October 18.
This video interview was played at Woolwich Crown Court today (October 8).
When asked where Sarah was, the person - who can’t be named for legal reasons - explained Ben told them Sarah was “lost” and “we don’t know where she is, nobody knows where she is”.
The witness woke up in the middle of the night and neither Miss Wellgreen or Lacomba were in their separate bedrooms.
They “checked in Sarah’s room and she wasn’t there and her bed was wet and she left her phone and her purse”.
The witness claimed the bed “was wet on the right hand side where the wardrobe is” on the “top bit of the bed”.
The occupant claimed the bed “hasn’t been wet before” in the interview.
When the person woke up, they claim Lacomba was not at the property and instead “at work taxi driving” but later “saw him come back home”.
The witness had gone downstairs to watch TV.
They claim Lacomba then “went back to bed”, as did the witness.
The occupant of the house added that Lacomba told them: “You don’t have to worry about it because the police are finding Sarah.”
So this contradicts BL's story that he was at home asleep that night.
This is very interesting. I think a lot may be left out of this. ie, what was it that awoke the occupant, did 'they' hear noises? I wonder at which point the occupant woke up, shortly after Ben left the home, or shortly before his arrival back home, or in between?
When the occupant says the 'bed was wet', on the 'top bit of the bed', I'm thinking he meant perhaps the 'covers' on top? Or the top portion of the mattress (but why would the child have lifted the covers/sheets to check which portion was wet?)? If he had instead meant the 'top' of the bed meaning the 'head' of the bed, wouldn't he have specified head or foot? So could very well have been somewhere in the middle portion. Is this why the duvet was found stuffed in the drawer?
It doesn't make sense that some 6 days later, the SAME pillowcase matching the duvet in the drawer would still be on the pillow on the bed whilst the duvet had been removed, IF BL's mother had replaced 'the bedding' with her own, as was stated by the accused.. the first thing one would change would be the pillowcase?? But yet that was the thing remaining?
I hope police took the duvet for forensic testing when they found it in the drawer? They may have found the substance which had made the bed wet? That would be terribly damning evidence if they found it contained urine.
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13:14
Inside Sarah's room
Detective Constable Celia King, the family liaison officer who was implemented as the single point of contact for the family to support them, gives evidence in court.
Her involvement began on
October 14 when she joined DC Joanna Godfrey on a visit to Bazes Shaw.
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Used bed linin
Celia King was led to believe that Sarah Wellgreen’s bedroom was on occasion used by Marilyn Lacomba and she was staying there at the time of their visit.
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A gold coloured
duvet was discovered in a drawer which
matched a pillowcase still on the bed, with another matching pillowcase in the wardrobe.
This was Sarah’s bed linen and
when his mother goes there, they swap the bed linen for her own.
DC King said: “The bottom sheet looked like it had been slept in, a used one. There was lots of stuff on top of the bed but it wasn’t a made bed.
“It (
Sarah’s gold bed linen) was half folded into the drawer as if it had been stuffed in there. I took it out and
to me it wasn’t clean.”
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17:47
Occupant 'woke in the middle of the night and couldn't find Sarah'
An occupant of the house was interviewed by DC Lisa Roots and DC Deniz Aslan on October 18.
This video interview was played at Woolwich Crown Court today (October 8).
...
The witness woke up in the middle of the night and neither Miss Wellgreen or Lacomba were in their separate bedrooms.
They “
checked in Sarah’s room and she wasn’t there and her bed was wet and she left her phone and her purse”.
The
witness claimed the bed “was wet on the right hand side where the wardrobe is” on the “top bit of the bed”.
The
occupant claimed the bed “hasn’t been wet before” in the interview.
