Something doesn't seem right with these scenarios and I can't quite pit my finger on it.
One minute we're told he drove in alone and sat drinking in the car. The next minute it's inferred that that he drove in with a friend. According to the street signs it's illegal to drink alcohol on the streets in Robert Roby Way which would explain him sitting in the car with a mate listening to music. But we're also lead to believe that he sat in his car drinking and talking to his brother (I think?) discussing the week after's visitations. That's a pretty bad mannered environment to be in with a work mate isn't it? If his mate gave him some privacy to talk then surely that wouldn't leave time for his mate to preload (if he drunk?) and would explain why Corrie went to two pubs before the club to look for them? After all, he wouldn't have been able to talk to them as he was on the phone to his brother?
Curiouser and curiouser....