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Oh, finding a perfectly credible motive for MW is not at all difficult. The difficulty of the MW hypothesis lies in supposing that he hasn't got an alibi, or that if his alibi doesn't hold water, the police are not already aware of that.

And you don't suppose this question has occurred to the police and been exhaustively investigated ? If MW did it, rest assured that the police will be aware of it. Everyone at the party he was at will have been discussing what went on and ready to point out anything suspicious. A much...

He hadn't been completely out of her life for 18 months. See here. We have here an erroneous initial statement in the media that there had been no contact for 2 years. Every intelligent person could see that this claim was false. Hence it was inferred that there was in fact a very high level of...

My apologies. I meant to write : "...right from the night when Joanna's disappearance was discovered..." i.e. the night of 19-20 December. I hope the context made that clear as it is now too late to edit.

I’ve just finished catching up on the posts of the last 24 hours or so and I’m going to do a summary of various points that occur to me, with subtitles for each subject. If you don’t like long posts, just skip this one. 1. The Secret Clue. It seems to me highly probable that the police have...

Wasn't that before the body had been thawed and the full post-mortem taken place ?

I have to question this, Laserdisc. The initial police statement referring to "constriction of the neck" immediately offered the vernacular equivalent "strangled". The technical term was probably a direct quotation from a medical report or post mortem. I think we are supposed to take the two...

Many thanks indeed Aneurin. I do indeed understand that this is just your personal opinion, but it strikes me as a singularly well-informed and judicious one. Yes, that sounds logical. I wonder if your scepticism would be equally aroused by a hypothesis that supposes, for instance, a...

Welcome, Aneurin. It seems that you have a considerable advantage over the rest of us in the shape of personal knowledge. Would you venture to express your own provisional opinion of the most likely time for the body to have been dumped ?

Well, if you prefer a suspect with a good alibi to one who has none, I suppose so. It seems to me entirely arbitrary to see it as in any way suggesting one possible killer more than another - except to the extent that it doesn't apply to killers having no partner, relatives or friends at...

To me, no, it suggests that The Sun is guessing at what the police are looking for and,as journalists invariably do, failing to distinguish in their report between observed facts and their own interpretation of those facts. Anyway the police have never said they thought the body was there for...

Yes, Teabreid, the source of a part of the contents of that article is the police unless it is a complete lie, but the part that is from the police talks about the likelihood that some partner, relative or friend knows something material and is encouraged to come forward. That could apply no...

OK I'll come quietly. I am now unable to find a single reliable source for any detail about the colour or appearance of the Saturday morning car. The confusion has obviously arisen from the fact that the police have referred to reports of the Friday-night light-coloured 4x4 being seen also in...

That was my original view, but the fact remains that the police have firmly stated their belief that the body had been at the discovery site for several days, and they saw it exactly as it was when discovered, which we didn't. I wonder if there might be an explanation of the mystery, such as the...

My mistake. Now that I hunt for it I only find it being referred to as a car, not a 4x4. Source here. We thus have two cars reported as behaving strangely in the area of the dumping, one a light 4X4 at around 11.20 pm on Friday 17th and this one, also a light-coloured car, otherwise...

Well it seems to me that a hypothesis about whodunnit is being turned into a fact on the basis of another hypothesis about the police using the press which is even shakier than the one it is supposed to support. I agree that various media sources are hinting at GR being the culprit and hinting...

He needed a jump start to get away the first time. He'll be in a helluva fix if he needs one the second time ! Where did he park the car on returning - outside the flat in full view of neighbours who had helped him leave for Sheffield over two hours earlier ? Further down the road, on the other...

Good news that the police have finally had the idea of taking a close look at internal plans of 44 Canynge Rd. I hope they will remember that some changes might be made which are not on the plans and may be unknown even to residents - for instance a connection between one flat and another...

To be a little less facetious Teabreid, surely the police will have discovered tons of DNA from all sorts of people. For instance, suppose they found DNA from, say, CJ or PS on a door or two, that would be because one or other of them came round to borrow some sugar a day or two before. Or on...

You think it was Bernard ?