The Suzy Lamplugh Puzzle Part Two
@WiseOwl I think you'll find the above account well worth reading!
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@Crusader21.
I have read this article before from Lolly True crime, and what's good about it is that it takes a lot of it's information from Andrew Stephen's book. There are some interesting differences from what was reported then to what we (believe) to know now. First of all, the Friday night before Suzy disappeared:
Suzy’s chequebook, personal diary a postcard and possibly other items ‘go missing’ from her bag. They are later found on the front step of the Prince of Wales pub, Putney, by the acting landlord at closing time.
On Friday evening she met up with boyfriend Adam and they went together to Mossop’s Restaurant (next to the pub) and later on to Suzy’s local pub: The Prince of Wales, Putney. Adam said they had a pleasant evening together, but at some point, it is apparent a few things went missing from her bag. As it turned out, the acting Landlord of the pub later found Suzy’s’ pocket diary, chequebook, postcard (and possibly one or two other items but NOT her purse) on this front step when locking up at pub closing time.
In DV's book, AL states that they never went to the pub, and that the loss of these items 'never happened'. Why has he changed this story?
Then on the morning Suzy disappeared:
Makes and receives calls, cancels her chequebook, speaks to the pub landlord to arrange to collect her things. 6pm diary clash. Makes Appointment for 6pm to collect her things from the pub, yet already has a 6pm appointment in her diary.
It is reported that on this Monday morning Suzy was “preoccupied” with her missing cheque book, missing diary and chequebook cancelling her cheques with the bank. Why ‘preoccupied’ now when she’d been so seemingly carefree about her missing things before? if she mentioned their loss to her mother on Sunday then the enquiry didn’t note it.
Exactly who was it that said Suzy was preoccupied with her missing things that morning? None of the Sturgis staff DV interviewed in his book said anything about this, and only SF could remember anything about the missing items and even then she couldn't confirm if it was that day or not.
As for collecting her things at 6.00 from the pub this info presumably must have come from CV? In DV's book CV says he had a call, believed to be from Suzy, around lunchtime saying that she would come and collect her things before the pub opened.
12.40pm. The last call ever knowingly made by Suzy was to the pub. It is noted that she was half sitting and half standing as if in a rush to leave the office. Was this another call to the pub? Not the first? Had the plan changed in any small way? This is unclear.
Again, where did this information come from? It must surely have been one of the Sturgis staff who provided this at the time, and as MG was out of the office then it must have been NH or SF who provided this info. Nothing of Suzy making this call or being in a rush to leave the office was mentioned in DV's interview with the Sturgis staff.
However, if Suzy did indeed make the phone call to pub around this time it would support CV's claim that she phoned him around lunchtime to say she was coming to collect her things.
With this in mind I am a little surprised DV did not bring this up when speaking to Suzy's work colleagues. After all, if one of them had remembered this call to the pub then it would greatly support his theory of what happened to Suzy that day, that she was anxious to retrieve her things and that the pub was indeed her destination after leaving the office.
Andrew Stephen's main source of information came from the two main detectives on the case, plus other police officers who unofficially co-operated with him. What we don't know of course, is who exactly provided the police with the information in the first place - we can only guess.
