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I just can’t wrap my head around how casual he can be about taking somebody else’s life, I really don’t understand it. It shows an incredible lack of self awareness for himself, not to realise that someone else wouldn’t want to hear him gushing about what he did. Usually in a murder trial, I...

Resident of Newtownards reporting in as well, what a small world it is that we live in. It feels surreal to see somebody who was born here featured on this website. I think it’s pretty telling that very quickly the police declared this case as a murder investigation despite the lack of body...

In the UK, Uber can sometimes malfunction where the driver is shown as somewhere different than he is in the live tracking and texts that the Uber has arrived can come both earlier or later than the taxi has actually arrived at. I don’t know if that’s the same in the USA but it could explain...

This. Saying that Samatha didn’t stop to inspect the car, clarify that it was the exact same make and model as stipulated and make sure the driver knew her name before entering, isn’t victim blaming. It’s just saying that depressingly in this world we live in, we now have to take ridiculously in...

In the video of Samantha getting into the Uber, it looks to me like the woman everybody is seeing is just Samantha’s face briefly lit up. I can’t really see where anybody is seeing somebody different, in the CCTV footage I’ve seen at least but that may just be my bad vision. There’s a huge...

Thank you for bringing up these quotes, I remembered something involving them handing it in to the police originally but couldn’t find that source. Looking back on it, their reasoning for passing it onto ITV sounds like they’re trying to justify it to themselves. Maybe the police didn’t need...

I know where you’re coming from and there’s definitely a polite way to discuss something but I’ve always felt like it can be detrimental to discuss in too much detail something that can be proven as false. It’s kind of like the other night when there was pages of discussion over whether Libby...

If I tell people that I seen a pig flying past in the sky and a comet plummeting down into my back garden, then they have every right to tell me that I didn’t in fact see this all, because it’s impossible to have happened. If nobody else on this forum of obsessive true crime sleuths, who have...

No, threads really stay open indefinitely, unless something happens constantly that ends up breaking terms of service so much that it’s too much of a hassle for mods to keep the thread open. This happened with the thread on Alesha MacPhail’s tragic killing. There’s still so much to sleuth, it...

Same here, I was heavily involved in the threads about Libby at the start, reading every single post, despite some descending into ridiculousness but over time it all got a bit sickening and I strayed away. It’s easy to get sickened by something horrible like this, especially when things started...

I don’t really have any issues with the accused’s mother being interviewed. For a start, as has been said many times, the editor usually takes what’s been said out of context and doesn’t even feature certain information that the interviewee maybe expected to be featured. I believe that the...

Perhaps he’s comparing it with the walk TM made on the way home last night which was surely captured on many different forms of CCTV footage as well... Oh yeah that’s right, they have absolutely nothing of the sort! You have to admire the defence for really working with what little evidence he...

I know the burden of proof is on the prosecution but if you’re going to offer zero evidence that the couple had an affair then the jury aren’t just going to take your word for it just because burden of proof isn’t necessary.

Does it matter that they have nothing else asides from the DNA evidence? The defence don’t have anything to prove concretely that the DNA evidence was planted or that the accused couldn’t have killed Alesha so what more do they need? Look at all these cases in America right now that are being...

If Toni and Rab had a particularly combustible relationship, it’s easy to see them arguing and falling out during the first days of Alesha’s death. Maybe an argument with Rab happened around the time she made the ‘she’s in a better place now,’ comment and it was meant in the sense that she was...

This is horrible if true and domestic abuse is no small issue but even if this was the case, they’re still together from what I’ve heard and I can’t see how it’s relevant to the trial. It doesn’t explain how the accused’s DNA ended up on Alesha and it doesn’t help push the narrative that anybody...

Can anybody remember off the top of their heads if the accused was 15 whenever Alesha was killed, or 16? I’m just trying to work out roughly the ballpark area for him turning 18 and being named and identified if he’s found guilty this week

Again, it wasn’t a joke. Regardless, we should all relax today. If you’re all anything like me I’d say we’re finding today’s court findings very upsetting and it’s easy to get highly charged and emotional over silly things. What’s came out in court today is very hard to take, even if most of...

Or why don’t you read the entire post and the fact that I put what I said in quotes instead of reading the first thing and seeing the exact opposite of what I was saying I’m pointing out how ridiculous the claims by people who have been playing devil’s advocate have been on here, specifically...

‘We already know he was a regular buyer of drugs from Alesha’s father. How do you know he wasn’t just playing around with her the day before and left DNA?’ I’m honestly surprised we haven’t seen a reply like this to this evidence. Some of the reaching by other users during this trial has been...