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I tend to agree with you. I think the idea of a Biffa employee accidentally killing Corrie, disposing of the body and then covering it up is pretty unlikely. I was thinking more, perhaps, that Biffa were trying to cover up the fact that they hadn't followed correct procedures (e.g. in taking the...

Sorry, that was a reply to the poster who said Biffa should have said at the beginning that they didn't charge by weight, and therefore their measurements may not have been accurate.

Exactly! That would have saved months of wasted police time and effort. Why suddenly decide to inform the police now? Either Biffa are massively incompetent or there's something fishy going on.

It's very puzzling. Do they think that Corrie got into the cardboard recycling bin, or one of the landfill waste bins? Here's a January post from the Find Corrie site: http://www.findcorrie.co.uk/the-bin-lorrys-refuse-sites-update-5th-january-2017/ It seems very clear that the bin they were...

I struggle with this too. I don't know why he did it. The kindest thing I can think of is that head injury in his 20s (does anyone know exactly what happened?) damaged his brain in some way.

Yes! It was ludicrous. (The last time I saw such a ridiculous defence was the Ian Huntley case.) Perhaps he thought there was nothing to lose - though in fact, if he'd pleaded guilty he might have had a shorter sentence. Or he could, perhaps more plausibly, claim that she'd met with an accident...

mrjitty - I don't think anyone will ever be able to say for certain how he killed Diane, or even if he killed her. Thanks to everyone for the replies about the Guardian article and what the police knew. I still find it really strange that the police kept on putting out this misleading story...

I'm new to the forum, so you have almost certainly discussed this already, but I wanted to ask people's opinions about the Guardian article that appeared last May and what it tells us about the police investigation...

Well, yes. Except she doesn't seem to have died of an epileptic fit, and I imagine that if she had done, that would have been on the death certificate. Instead it records this mysterious "sudden unexplained death in epilepsy". All we know is that she died very suddenly - not in her sleep but...

Hurrah! Rachel Johnson manages to get one fact right.

What we now know about Ian Stewart: 1. He's mean with money. 2. He is quick to anger, flying into a rage with the neighbours over the hedge. 3. He hated dogs, to the extent of throwing stones at the neighbour's dogs when they barked. 4. He was unkempt in his personal appearance and slobbish in...

I put a comment below the article complaining about three things: the engagement ring detail, the line about him putting sleeping tablets in her scrambled eggs, and the bit about him luring the dog into the cesspit. The comments are premoderated and my comment hasn't appeared. Ho hum...

Rachel Johnson has a piece in today's Mail on Sunday that repeats the nonsense about IS putting the tablets in Helen's scrambled eggs and enticing the dog into the cesspit with a toy. No evidence at all that this is what he did.

I've just gone back and read from the beginning of the thread (originally started half-way through) and this really leapt out at me from the Sun report: A throwaway remark from a neighbour’s daughter, visiting home from Australia, led officers to contact Mr Shannon. Cops had been confused when...

Yes, you're probably right. That did occur to me but I wasn't sure. It's unbearably awful. I keep thinking of the mismatch - someone as bright and lively and intelligent and successful as she was ending up being murdered in such a way by a like IS. She was much, much too good for him and...

I hope so. Though I think it must be quite hard to suffocate someone (assuming that's what he did) without them waking up. I have been wondering why he disposed of the duvet at the dump if he simply used it to suffocate her. Did anyone else have any thoughts about that?

I think you're absolutely right. When you're absolutely blindsided by grief, and perhaps not getting the support you'd want from friends and family, it makes you very susceptible to small acts of kindness. So he'd have known that and taken advantage of it. I disagree, though, with some of the...