Shiressleuth
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I prefer to go with the times LE gave originally as they would know from the phone pings and they also said the phone left the BSE at 4.19am. They have never said that the phone had to have been in the bin lorry, only that it loosely correlates to the time it took to get from BSE to BM and on the same or similar route afaik.
As for the BM sighting, on just about all the latest reports, LE say that the man said it was 4am and the phone was still in BSE at that time, but the man now says it was 4.30am. It sounds like there has been some confusion between LE and the man's and/or his wife's call.
It is my understanding that any sighting does not become a confirmed sighting unless two or more people saw the same thing at or near the same location at a similar time. At that time of night, there wouldn't have been that many people around, I wouldn't have thought. I wonder how many other sightings there have been that have been discounted. MM said there had been many, and it is clear that the sightings we do know about, have been looked into and areas searched. Without some evidence that C has been in a certain place, even though some person thinks they may have seen him, doesn't say one way or the other whether he was there or not.
04.19 is pretty close to bin lorry at 04.20 imo. The problem is that LE said the phone travelled to BM in 28 minutes so 04.19 + 28 = 04.47 a.m. which is later than the sighting at 04.30 or 04.00 and later than LE's original 04.30 to 08.00 a.m. statement and I have never understood why the phone details given later differ.
A confirmed sighting is a sighting confirmed by another event .e.g. another sighting, cctv, card purchase or phone call, text or ping etc as I understand. Based on that, no sightings have actually been confirmed but this one is close IMO as it is only minutes out from matching the phone.