I don't think anyone is purposely putting out misinformation or disinformation.
I think what might have happened is that one of the guys from Honington said something in general about guys walking home from BSE to base occasionally, and Nicola interpreted this as meaning Corrie had done it occasionally. Then she said that in one of her interviews and it became 'fact'.
She's had a month of going through hell, police talking to her, media talking to her, nights crying herself to sleep while trying to reassure her other boys that Corrie's going to come home safely..somehow. She can probably barely remember some things she's said. But now it seems she's been corrected that the guy who mentioned walking back to base was talking about his own experiences, not talking about Corrie having definitely done that himself. So now she's put out a message saying Corrie never did walk back to base from BSE, and she just can't remember her exact words from every interview she's done.
From reading the FB page (which is extremely hard to follow and to extract information from) there was CCTV footage from the pizza place that was shown in mobile incident rooms in BSE as stills, and this is where the death metal t-shirt guy was seen and the 'video' that he's referring to. The t-shirt guy said on the FB page that he didn't have a heated conversation with Corrie in the pizza place, but he and Corrie were acquaintances, Corrie sat at a table with him and had a slice of his pizza, they just chatted normally and then hugged goodbye. We know that after that Corrie was seen napping in the doorway, so I don't think this has any relation to the case.
What bothers me from reading posts related to that subject on the FB page is that this guy is USAF from Mildenhall and didn't even know that police wanted to talk to him. Apparently the USAF boys there don't get TV news, British papers, or much in the way of internet time. Mildenhall is just a couple of miles away from the last phone ping position...why on earth aren't the brass at Mildenhall putting out basewide bulletins for guys who might have been in BSE that night or driving back to base down the road from BSE to Barton Mills roundabout?? That bothers me a lot!
Anyway, back to my original point...the family is in an awkward position, any family is, but maybe this one more so in some ways because of the way they process information they're given by police and then how they, the family, want to put out parts of that information to the public when they're doing media interviews. So things like the bin lorry info gets more weight added in one interview, then a few weeks later there's less emphasis on it, but we don't know exactly why, all we can do is take their word for it. Then it turns out that maybe they were misinformed or did a bad job of personally processing information they were given. I just think we should go easy on them.
The police aren't trying to give us information to solve the case ourselves. They're trying to put out information to 1) get information back from the public of sightings and other things that happened that night in BSE and surroundings; and 2) keep this case in the public eye, and in a way Nicola and Tony and the boys have taken on that side of the job, because it's the biggest and best contribution they can make at this time.
So when we're sifting through this information we, just like the police, have to try to sift through facts and hearsay, though we're doing it on far less information/misinformation than the police have to go through.
Facts:
Corrie went for a night out in BSE
Left the club and went for takeaway
Ate the takeaway, presumably napped in a doorway. No confirmed sightings since then.
The phone pings appear to have gone toward Barton Mills area
The phone appears to have stopped moving in the Barton Mills area and then gone completely 'dead' (turned off,battery dead, in a blind spot, etc) at around 8 am.
I think what might have happened is that one of the guys from Honington said something in general about guys walking home from BSE to base occasionally, and Nicola interpreted this as meaning Corrie had done it occasionally. Then she said that in one of her interviews and it became 'fact'.
She's had a month of going through hell, police talking to her, media talking to her, nights crying herself to sleep while trying to reassure her other boys that Corrie's going to come home safely..somehow. She can probably barely remember some things she's said. But now it seems she's been corrected that the guy who mentioned walking back to base was talking about his own experiences, not talking about Corrie having definitely done that himself. So now she's put out a message saying Corrie never did walk back to base from BSE, and she just can't remember her exact words from every interview she's done.
From reading the FB page (which is extremely hard to follow and to extract information from) there was CCTV footage from the pizza place that was shown in mobile incident rooms in BSE as stills, and this is where the death metal t-shirt guy was seen and the 'video' that he's referring to. The t-shirt guy said on the FB page that he didn't have a heated conversation with Corrie in the pizza place, but he and Corrie were acquaintances, Corrie sat at a table with him and had a slice of his pizza, they just chatted normally and then hugged goodbye. We know that after that Corrie was seen napping in the doorway, so I don't think this has any relation to the case.
What bothers me from reading posts related to that subject on the FB page is that this guy is USAF from Mildenhall and didn't even know that police wanted to talk to him. Apparently the USAF boys there don't get TV news, British papers, or much in the way of internet time. Mildenhall is just a couple of miles away from the last phone ping position...why on earth aren't the brass at Mildenhall putting out basewide bulletins for guys who might have been in BSE that night or driving back to base down the road from BSE to Barton Mills roundabout?? That bothers me a lot!
Anyway, back to my original point...the family is in an awkward position, any family is, but maybe this one more so in some ways because of the way they process information they're given by police and then how they, the family, want to put out parts of that information to the public when they're doing media interviews. So things like the bin lorry info gets more weight added in one interview, then a few weeks later there's less emphasis on it, but we don't know exactly why, all we can do is take their word for it. Then it turns out that maybe they were misinformed or did a bad job of personally processing information they were given. I just think we should go easy on them.
The police aren't trying to give us information to solve the case ourselves. They're trying to put out information to 1) get information back from the public of sightings and other things that happened that night in BSE and surroundings; and 2) keep this case in the public eye, and in a way Nicola and Tony and the boys have taken on that side of the job, because it's the biggest and best contribution they can make at this time.
So when we're sifting through this information we, just like the police, have to try to sift through facts and hearsay, though we're doing it on far less information/misinformation than the police have to go through.
Facts:
Corrie went for a night out in BSE
Left the club and went for takeaway
Ate the takeaway, presumably napped in a doorway. No confirmed sightings since then.
The phone pings appear to have gone toward Barton Mills area
The phone appears to have stopped moving in the Barton Mills area and then gone completely 'dead' (turned off,battery dead, in a blind spot, etc) at around 8 am.
