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If I invited a neighbour, who was much bigger than me, into my house, and after a couple of minutes polite chat he grabbed me and tried to kiss me, I think it is fairly likely I would scream. I do not think the explanation we have heard accounts for the injuries Jo sustained, or the state of...

If he were motivated to stage something to show his superiority to GR, then he didn't do a great job of it - a pair of knickers left lying around doesn't give that message to me. If he'd wanted to go down that route, he could have sent a much stronger message - for instance, why remove the body...

I must say I was shocked by this issue with the Chaplain breaking confidentiality - to be honest I don't know whether I would expect such a conversation to remain in confidence in the circumstance - but to have one rule for 'people of religion' and one rule for the unreligious seems outrageous...

I wouldn't say VT was 'the most obvious' culprit by a wide margin. If he hadn't done such a lousy job of covering his tracks, he could easily never have been caught. If he'd done a decent job of hiding the body, and had taken the precaution of taking her bag/coat/shoes from the house, then...

I don't think they are compelled to provide an explanation of why he did it - more that I feel that if they don't provide any explanation of the context of events which led up to it, then it undermines their argument. We can assume we'll get SOME level of detail, as the jury have already...

I was thinking about the case whilst I was trying to get to sleep last night. The defence are at some point going to HAVE to set out a plausible explanation as to the events of that night and why he strangled her. It has been indicated that the defence will say that they first saw each...

It's not as though it was a random day for him though - I suspect he might have rather a clear memory of what he ate on the night he ended up strangling his neighbour. And it's not exactly unusual for someone at home on their own on a Friday night to make themselves a pizza. I think...

:D Teatime to me is your evening meal. (Northern England, working class family!)

I am interested in why the defence seem keen to point to a somewhat later time of death. Is it just to disassociate events from the screams, because a situation in which Joanna screamed doesn't fit with their version of events? Or are there other features of their timeline which don't fit with...

It seems unlikely that the basic facts of this case are going to be disputed (that he killed her and attempted to conceal the body) so it's just going to come down to exactly how and why he killed her and what evidence they can produce which sheds any light on this. What makes a man go round...

It's all very tragic. On the one hand I'm really hoping the police have their man, for the sake of Jo's family and friends. On the other hand for the sake of VT's family and friends you kind of hope that they haven't.

There's degrees of knowing - especially given English isn't his first language, we could take "not knowing" to mean anything from never having set eyes on her to being passing acquaintances. Pure speculation but you could see how, having only recently moved in, Jo would be keen to get to...

Or more likely the LE easily tallied this sighting with the reported movements of other residents in the block of flats or their legitimate visitors, hence no appeal required?

Yes indeed - in fact on my second reading of the daily mail article that mentioned this whole car-on-bridge thing, this was what I had understood. initially interviewed and eliminated, then the CCTV footage turned up and this changed the direction of the case. This doesn't discount...

The main thing is for it to have been a plausible route for a plausible reason. Sometimes the routes people travel are based on habit, familiarity etc. The fact it wasn't what on paper appears to be the best route doesn't rule it out. Of course if we are talking about the vehicle that was...

We have this indication that he was at home in the early evening, although he has claimed to have been 'away' that night (we don't know where he was claiming to be). Clearly LE believe there is reason to suspect this wasn't true, or he wasn't 'away' the entire evening - otherwise they couldn't...

Is there anything concrete to suggest either than VT didn't have his own car, or at least have easy access to a car owned by his GF? Or is the car lending hypothesis just arisen due to the wording of the parents' appeal?

Hypothetically if this was the case, why on earth would CJ maintain this pretence under 3 days of questioning by the police whilst under arrest suspected of murder? All the while his personal reputation being shredded by the press. That would be some impressive loyalty to a lodger, and for what?

Personally, if this whole thing about the car on the bridge is true....then it's more likely the person who was interviewed was VT himself...either he's the owner of the car, or the newspaper article isn't that carefully worded (wouldn't be the first time).