Cheers SoSo for the comment on the POL appeal re possible accommodation in that early. Dec 2008 period... would love to know of any outcome. Someone somewhere must have seem them, and the larger majority of us do have a conscience.
Your post in reply to Bundy of the below is also interesting. How ideal has it been for the 'informant' to have the benefit of supposed hindsight! Whether it gives him the perfect 'cover', perhaps it was the perfect scenario to become 'published', or to earn some $$. Or maybe he does know stuff - can't help wonder if that is true, why he took so long to come forward, but his silence now also has some intrigue.
The informant let us know in his exclusive interview that MS Duffy was concerned that payments had not been used for a fortnight in late 2008.
Looking at the transaction timeline it would need to be within that 3 weeks 24 Nov Kippax to 16 Dec Charnwoord
If the informant is telling the truth I wonder what he did between the time of the identification of the bodies and telling the police what he knew?
I try to imagine myself in the same situation.
If what he says is correct then my first thought is that these people he is about to inform on are dangerous - they kill people!
My second thought is that if he is still friendly with step-brother and step-father, and I think he is, then it would be natural to talk to them first about what he knows, before going to the police.
Yet that is tricky because if he knew of the debt and bounty (if true) and if he hadn't told Karlie's only remaining family, perhaps he hesitated for a long time out of respect.
After all, it's not nice stuff to be saying about a person, is it? And when they are shocked and in mourning and coming to terms with the whole situation it seems almost cruel to bring it up.
Yet I can imagine him wanting to talk to the 2 men before going to the police, and maybe it just took some time to do that.
Then there is the fear of placing himself in danger. That too may have held him back for some time.
But if he was afraid, why did he later speak to the media? That doesn't add up, especially considering that searching court records relating to the cannabis conviction could easily identify him.
Unless he is sure that the person responsible for the "bounty" is no threat to him now, being either incarcerated or dead? Maybe he needed to check on that first too.
But (another but) why go to the media at all?
I am assuming the informant is a decent man, and I think to be a live-in carer for an elderly woman he must be, so what motivated him to go to the media with his story?
Why not just let the police deal with it?
Or did the police actually want that story out in the media?
So many tentacles in this story and I do believe it is far more complicated than we have seen so far.
Taree - has it to do also with DJH/M/B or the Stoccos or ... I have forgotten.