Australia Australia - Marion Barter, 51, missing after trip to UK, June 1997 #13

[Derleedl]

Thanks for posting that All this time, I was imagining something quite different, like a tea table you can put things inside, heheheee.

So it's essentially a wooden crate for packing.

I imagine that IF Marion packed belongings in such a crate, the contents would be very expensive and fragile. Like fine china. And the journey would be far. It would make no sense to pack anything else in there for a reasonably short trip. Especially a crate with metal seals!

There is zero percent chance a 'little old man' would be able to move a few crates like that filled with books. Or even a portly pilot in his fifties hauling them into a car. No way.

I once placed my books in a ceder chest to move because I ran out of boxes. Very bad idea. It took two young men AND and a trolly AND bungee cords AND the lift function of the truck AND a lot of time to move that thing. It's the same as moving a refrigerator!

They are actually just moving boxes. Standard run of the mill moving boxes, I think. Also, yesterday when AC asked RB the approximate size of these, he said width about 400mm, which is spot on. I thought he would have been way off haha! Tea Chest Box

 

[Eyespywithmylittleeye]

His wife is either brain dead or an assailant IMO.

Or a woman who has been broken down by a narcissist

 

[gymtonic]

They are actually just moving boxes. Standard run of the mill moving boxes, I think. Also, yesterday when AC asked RB the approximate size of these, he said width about 400mm, which is spot on. I thought he would have been way off haha! Tea Chest Box

IMO that's why I think he has dredged it up from a past memory. These cardboard boxes are the standard ones used for removals these days (and likely to be the kind that SL described) but he has described specifically "old fashioned" tea chests...wooden with metal strips to seal the edges (like the one @ChrysStevenson posted) , which used to be used to ship tea and then fragile goods by ship.

 

[Eyespywithmylittleeye]

Thanks for the clarification. I have not participated in previous discussions on this topic (despite being an active member of this forum and this case on WS since 2019) but I do recall learning about the family history after the last sitting of the inquest. I do wish to note he said THE mother again yesterday, it’s something that you’d think he would make an active attempt to correct in circumstances where police and others have access to records on these topics. MOO.

I don’t believe he wants it corrected. He is if of a generation that is not proud to have been born out of wedlock. JMO

 

[caitlincurious]

RB seems a little rusty this morning... forgot he has Parkinson's

 

[TheStupidTree]

OMG we have started with the dithering already.

 

[Derleedl]

IMO that's why I think he has dredged it up from a past memory. These cardboard boxes are the standard ones used for removals these days (and likely to be the kind that SL described) but he has described specifically "old fashioned" tea chests...wooden with metal strips to seal the edges (like the one @ChrysStevenson posted) , which used to be used to ship tea and then fragile goods by ship.

Oh, right! I also initially imagined old "chests" but for some reason I thought I was wrong. Thanks for clarifying!

 

[Derleedl]

"I take it you've only been bashed once in Amsterdam airport?" lol

 

[TheStupidTree]

Note from a medical clinic to say he has Parkinson's? Not a specialist?

 

[brjakj]

Is someone already asleep behind AC?

 

[Deleted member 249471]

So basically, Casselden's strategy was to get RB to explain his version of story.
And Smith is now proving everything RB said is lies
Smith's on fire.

 

[KateM]

Or a woman who has been broken down by a narcissist

I have no sympathy for his wife, sorry.

 

[insanity]

Is someone already asleep behind AC?

No, he's wiggling his fingers. I wonder who this couple is

 

[KeenSleuth17]

No, he's wiggling his fingers. I wonder who this couple is

I wondered that too - haven’t seen them the rest of the time.

 

[brjakj]

I wondered that too - haven’t seen them the rest of the time.

I think it’s the husband of one of Sally’s supporters because the woman next to him is in photos on mpmb fb page

 

[StrangerDanger]

Can’t possibly have been his fault that he knowingly travelled on a passport that should have been cancelled for many years and after several more name changes

 

[KateM]

OMG we have started with the dithering already.

He doesn't seem with it this morning. Maybe he got on the slops last night?

 

[insanity]

Have we ever seen a photo of AKA in his younger years? I wonder if there are people he has scammed using a different name. His image would be more recognisable than is name IMO.

 

[mishy66]

IMO that's why I think he has dredged it up from a past memory. These cardboard boxes are the standard ones used for removals these days (and likely to be the kind that SL described) but he has described specifically "old fashioned" tea chests...wooden with metal strips to seal the edges (like the one @ChrysStevenson posted) , which used to be used to ship tea and then fragile goods by ship.

exactly.

 

[KeenSleuth17]

I think it’s the husband of one of Sally’s supporters because the woman next to him is in photos on mpmb fb page

True, she is. A sister of MB who has done a backflip?