Hi all
Second post, trying to be careful of not breaking rules but thought I'd share my thoughts, which has been raised by others in various parts and I initially dismissed but keep coming back to. Sorry for length. Been thinking a while.
So the only facts really known are:
His phone moved out towards Barton Mills
He wasn't in the back of the bin lorry, due to the 11kg weight.
Everything else is down to balance of probabilities and human nature. I think everything before falling asleep in the doorway is irrelevant. He wasn't going AWOL, he wasn't arranging a meet, he didn't bump into someone he'd argued with earlier.
After eating he decided to wait for his mates, maybe whats apped them, no response. At some point he remarks that it looks like he's walking home to a witness (people say homeless guy). Around three he wakes up, checks the time on his phone and sees he's been asleep a while. Maybe takes a selfie to send to a mate at 3.08 'just woke up in a doorway!' Or something like. Maybe what's apps his mates 'anyone still around?'. No response.
Now has to decide whether to walk home as suggested or try and wait it out to drive the car back. He chooses walking.
Sets off with a spring in his step, he's got over two hours to go and so he's getting to marching mode. Gets to horseshoe and something makes him think twice. I'm not sure what and again I don't think actually relevant.
I thought a pee but you tend to try and be as quick as possible, move with purpose. He goes cautiously. People say he may have left the phone on the bin while he had a pee. Maybe if he had it in his hand walking in but they're in his pockets so I think unlikely.
Doesn't look like he speaks to anyone but maybe someone said 'got a light mate'. On the one hand he might want to be helpful but on the other it's a bit dodgy someone hiding in the shadows so he hesitates before thinking 'sod it, it'll be fine'. It's this kind of hesitation that makes me think it wasn't a planned meet. Maybe the person is from Focus 12 and they share a cig or a joint, get chatting. Discovers he's in rehab, probably quite an interesting conversation to have, not something most people experience. If it's a joint they stay in the shadows to avoid being seen. Maybe it goes to his head and he has to sit for a while.
Maybe he gets to the horseshoe and already thinks walking is a bad idea. Sees the bins, decides to kip in it, not your finest hour so checks around to make sure no one sees.
Finally he could see the homeless guy and think 'maybe I should check on him, he did the same for me'. Gets talking to him. By this time the homeless guy might have had more drink and doesn't remember the exchange in the following days.
Anyway it doesn't matter, I don't think any serious assault can happen spontaneously in a camera riddled area without evidence.
So he is still there when the bin lorry arrives. Now comes the coincidences. It seems virtually impossible to leave on foot at the exact time a rotating camera isn't looking and isn't picked up on any other cam. Especially after a few drinks.
It also seems too much coincidence that he is last seen in a bin area, a bin lorry appears in this area, his phone then pings the general route of this lorry and at approximate vehicle speed. I just can't believe his phone is any other vehicle based on probability.
So is he with his phone? I believe so.
Trying to be careful here but imagine he says 'you don't happen to be heading out RAF Honnington way do you?'
Bin lorry Driver says no, opposite direction to BM. Corrie has a quick think. It's now 4.20 roughly and he's sobering up, getting tired, even less fancying the walk but doesn't want to just hang around. Maybe he has mates at RAF Mildenhall/Lakenheath. By the time they drive out and he walks the final leg, it'll be maybe going on six AM. Doesn't seem to have a problem waiting around for people though so might get out there and wait for them to wake up. Maybe thinks he could have breakfast with them, might be early risers in the military,and he can share the tales of the night before. get a lift back to his car.
So he asks the driver if he can have a lift. Driver normally would say no of course but maybe he sees a smart, friendly serviceman in a spot of bother, might have friends in the services or be ex services or is just a nice guy but agrees to it.
They set off, all swell, drops Corrie off. Then on the final walk C is injured some how. Hit and run, falls into water. He stays motionless and his phone, after long calls with his brother, runs out of battery at 8am approx.
Fast forward a couple of days (sorry, not sure if we know when police visited bin lorry). I imagine in that line of work, the lorry cabs are cleaned quite regularly. They ask to search it but it's already been cleaned in the cab so no forensic sign and he was never in the back, or his phone. I can't believe Corrie surfed the bin lorry all that way.
So they ask the lorry driver if he has seen C. Suddenly, what started out as a nice gesture has gone wrong. He doesn't know what's happened to C, he may just be off with mates, or if something has happened it's likely to be an accident, nothing can change that but now, probably at his place of work, if he says 'yes I gave him a lift' he loses his job.
So under pressure, makes a mistake and says no. The police have to check into him but there's no marks on him from a struggle (as there wasn't one), there's no forensic evidence in the cab, the phone isn't there, the vehicle's tacograph shows nothing odd and he says he hasn't seen him. So there's nothing else to say.
But as time goes by and it looks less likely that C is unharmed, it becomes harder and harder to come forward as no it's not just a sackable offence, it's not being truthful with police.
So don't think bin man had anything to do with harming C but this is one example I could think of that matched the known, the likelihood and a reason someone might not come forward.
Of course drink driving is another reason and open to that. There's also plenty of questions about all I've said but just giving my thoughts and hope I haven't broken any rules or bored you silly.
