stepmeek
I agree that it seems strange (to me) for a young lad to make such a long phone call. The 4 calls during the day don't add up to me. Yes lots of texts WhatsApp etc but 4 phone calls?
I've linked to this before, but I don't see anything of significance in the number of calls. Darroch was at work that Friday, he's said here at about 5min onwards --
http://www.findcorrie.co.uk/2016/10/03/no-evidence-of-where-my-son-is/ -- that it was quick calls during his (Darroch's) breaks because he couldn't be bothered texting, ending in an arrangement to call Corrie later when he (Darroch) got home. Darroch called him and they chatted "for a long time" which I assume is the 46min call (although in old thread another poster thought there were 2 long calls, I couldn't find anything to confirm that). It'd be my guess that this "call before he went out" was in fact when Corrie was sitting in the car, Darroch wouldn't have known that at that time he gave this conference). But for me all these calls don't smack of depression or a desperate repeated need to chat to me, just calls instead of texts and only one actual proper chat, and it sounds like they were all instigated by Darroch not Corrie.
my transcription from link-
Darroch: It was me that spoke to him Friday, like, the whole day like when I was working, and then inbetween ...about ...and then before as he just went out
Reporter: Can you recall a little bit about that conversation?
Darroch: Oh completely, it was nothing completely, we were just beyond happy with each other, the conversation, just having a laugh, and then he's excited to go out, I was working on the Saturday so I was getting ready to go to bed, and just, nothing unusual whatsoever of the conversation, it was just the way me and him act with each other, the laughs that we're having, listening to...him listening to music and just excited to go out, like, nothing, nothing out of the ordinary.
Reporter: Your mum indicated that you'd had about 4 conversations that day?
Darroch: It was..eh..that was from like from when I'm at work, from, during my breaks at work, just phoning him, just for it was 2 seconds because I couldn't be bothered texting and so I've just phoned him, and then on my next lunch, and then I says I'll give you a phone when I get home, and then I phoned him for quite a while before he then went out.
Reporter: Was there ever any suggestion of any problems in terms of ...
Darroch: Whatsoever no...
Reporter: ...the RAF, any arguments with a girlfriend...
Darroch: Nothing, no..like literally nothing whatsoever. If you could have picked a happier conversation between me and him, that, that was it. Because it was beyond good, it was just, it was how we are with each other. That's it.