Very steep but walkable.
I don’t have a lot of stock in what “Mr hominoid” posts personally.
The fact that Theo never used his torch once is a bit of a tell he was with someone/people in my opinion.
If he didn't use the light on his phone in the pitch dark , how can it be said he was carrying his phone to the beach. I don't think he was.
"The evidence suggests that Theo had a quiet couple of days in Bryon and did not
have much interaction with others before the Friday night. Although some tourist
brochures were found in his luggage, there is no evidence of him visiting any of
the sights or engaging in other typical tourist activity such as surfing. His dorm
mates remember him lying on his bunk and watching movies on his phone a lot
but said he was friendly. The only evidence of Theo sightseeing in Byron is a
photo he sent to Emma on 30 May 2019, which appears to depict the stretch of
beach known as “the Pass” just to the west of the lighthouse. The accompanying
message said (in French) that the photo was taken during a walk that day."
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Hence, this is not the kind of 18 year old who'd run in the middle of a cold
night to a remote beach spot and doing so via a path you can't even see at night.
"It can also be inferred, from the nature of the activity engaged in and content of
the messages sent, that until at least 12.56am Theo was himself in possession of
his phone did not feel scared or in danger."
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Can it? Is there really evidence of Theo voluntarily or even himself writing
these messages? In my view, there's not.
"Theo’s family gave evidence at the inquest about their firmly held belief that Theo
would not have taken the route that Theo took from the cricket nets to Tallow
Beach, as evidenced by the Google timeline data, on his own. Theo’s family
believe it likely that Theo met a person or persons unknown at the cricket nets
and was thereafter guided to Tallow Beach. Whilst I can understand the assertion
that Theo was unlikely to have travelled alone at night in an unknown bush
environment, unfortunately there is no evidence available to me in support the
supposition that Theo was in the company of others during this time"
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"No evidence"? Sometimes they want evidence, on other occasions "the nature
of the activity" appears good enough.
Doesn't "the nature of activity" here point to the obvious? Theo runs into people
at the cricket nets. Up to that point the gps is steady then all of a sudden there's
an accelaration accross the field, and up and down or viceverca. This isn't gps data
of the same person just walking into a different direction, the pattern is totally
different.
"At 1.02am, Theo’s phone stopped transmitting data. It reconnected to the network
at 6.17am but there was no further user activity. A message from Lou at 2.33am
and a message from Loic at 3:23pm on 1 June 2019 were not delivered. The
telecommunications expert concludes that there is no way to know exactly why
the phone disconnected from the network between 1.02am and 6.17am. It could
be related to a change (even a slight one) in the orientation or height of the phone
or a change of weather conditions, such as dampness evaporating."
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It could...but what are the probabilities of the latter having happend for
a period of 5 hours when up to that point the phone never experienced any such
episodes. In my view, close to zero.
Based on an analysis of timing advance data in the cellular records, the expert
infers that the location of the phone after it ceased to record GPS-derived location
data (i.e. from 12:05am to 1:47pm on 1 June 2019) was in the headland area to
the north of Cosy Corner.
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Ignoring a cell ping at 00:56, "inaccurate". (or doesn't fit the story).
