This is something I was wanting to do last night but got tired, heh. It's just a breakdown of the statements made at the scene by Cook. He made two lots of comments, one early on and one a bit later. Comments in bold are my observations (so far).
Interview by Cotter, sometime shortly after 8.10pm:
He got home from work at 6.45pm
He left work at 5.30. Drive time b/w work and home: 15 mins average. That's an hour unaccounted for, and not mentioned here, or anywhere I can see. So he got home from somewhere... but it wasn't directly "from work".
Jenny was not home
The dog was upstairs
The neighbour states she thought the dog was down the side of the house (where Jenny was found) all day, crying and howling, so she wondered if it was hurt. If the dog was in the house all day, wouldn't the sound of it howling be muffled by the walls/windows? Sound carries very differently when outside, especially resonant sounds like a dog's howling.
The back door was unlocked;
Not open, but 'unlocked' so if this is truth, we must also accept that the dog was indeed shut inside since Jenny's death many hours before.
He walked the dog;
He returned and drank a Pepsi;
This might be the 'dark liquid' on the coffee table.
He had a shower;
He searched the house but could not find her;
Um -- because Jenny was prone to hiding out in the house when her hubby got home, like a little imp, or something? wth. Especially as he had, according to himself, already concluded she wasn't home. Did he NOT see her bag on the table the moment he got in? Why walk the dog/shower/etc *before* searching the house? SO SUSS!
He texted her and heard her phone;
And where was it, exactly? Oh, he doesn't say... was he even asked?
He saw the knife was missing and emptied the dishwasher;
Okay, I am now presuming he says "emptied the dishwasher" b/c looking for the knife. Not "looks in" there, but takes the time to "empty" it too. Okay. I find it VERY suss that he 'happens' to notice THE weapon missing from its usual place.
He searched the shed;
He turned all the lights on;
He went around the side and could see something white lying there
He came back in and turned the floodlight on and then went back out;
He is worried about his wife, he is worried she has hurt herself with a knife, he says. He is searching for her - sees 'something white' and does NOT run right up there immediately, to check if it's her? Runs for the floodlight switch instead? Okay. So he turns the light on. Why's it *off* when paramedics arrive?
Jenny was cold and stiff – he moved her lips but didn’t move her body at all.
Moved her lips. Okay. I have found a loved one's body after a suicide, in full rigor. Cold, and stiff. I cannot fathom WHY he'd 'move her lips' if was clearly dead and gone and stiff. I CAN understand why he did not attempt CPR - I didn't, either.
He called 000 and they told him to do CPR
Was this in response to a question of WHY the lips? Maybe.
Jenny was crying last night and he put on his Ipod and ignored her;
He didn’t talk to her this morning before he went to work;
She had a back injury;
She never told him she thought about killing herself;
Where is the wound, what did she do?
The floodlights are ON, he was facing her body front-on, he had knelt down by her and 'moved her lips', he had already established THE knife was missing from its block, and he *has NO idea* where the wound was, or what happened - okay.
When he first got home he thought either she’s left me or she’s killed herself;
So naturally, he took shower and walked the dog. As one does, when suspecting one's partner has left them (without her handbag....?) or killed themselves.
She’s got 12 diaries
Weirdly specific thing to know, let alone recall in a highly stressful situation.
First he thought she might have jumped from the balcony and then that she’d overdosed but someone said there was a knife there;
OH so he HAD 'heard' there was a 'knife there'.
That day at work he told his colleague, Bek Rogers, that his marriage was over.
Well and truly.
DS Osborn and PCC Cotter left the house with Mr Cook at 9.32pm and took him to the police station, arriving at 10.08pm, where PCC Cotter interviewed him.
During that interview Mr Cook repeated the information he had given police earlier and also stated:
He called Jenny from work on the activities phone and there was no answer – can’t recall whether before or after lunch;
This would have been verifiable, if anyone bothered to check.
He walked the dog for 20 to 30 minutes;
As one does, after arriving home and suspecting your wife has suicided.
When he came home from walking the dog he waved to Ms Lawton;
Waved hello, didn't go ask if she'd seen Jenny.
He dropped the phone outside after speaking to QAS;
He tried to move her arm a bit but it was set solid;
This is where, I think, he well and truly trips himself up, as I've said in previous posts. Obvious BS is obvious!
Called her today to get the email address for Action Electronics but she didn’t answer so went there in lunch break;
So he DOES recall if it was before or after lunch, eh.
11.45am left work to pay bill;
Paid it on credit card then got back to work 10 minutes late for first session.