Going round in circles? And I'm not just talking about the Bury St Edmund's road system
No it's cool. Even if it's a bit of a loose end it's still interesting, and we still want Corrie to come back safe and sound. I'll be blunt as to say I believe that: He got in a car and left. They know it and I think we all know it inside. Whether that car was parked in Horsheshoe, whether it arrived to the horseshoe, whether it stayed within Short Brackland...
They won't say it yet, it's the one thing they've got, possibly, a make and model may be known, but no number plate, as we have deduced, the CCTV system for tracking a car in and out of that area is potentially - AWFUL. And that car could have come from almost anywhere in the country, back tracking a timeline on certain vehicles could take a while.
(note I've used the Tesco roundabout, the one I assumed is mentioned as a sniffer dog detecting nothing there, as entry and exit point but it could also be the A1101. station hill cctv [one of the three in a line] doesn't look like it's going to see anything useful of the A1101
also, private cctv on northgate street is probably useful to them)
Let's say one of the 3 vehicles is seen enterting at 3.15am. They would then have to go back over that car entering AGAIN along the similar route (of which there is no CCTV) and then beyond that where might the earlier point be, that car at a service station at 2.55am? But then they'd have to search local service stations, and you can see the task gets a little wild and complicated. Especially if this car has the potential to have come from literally anywhere, which it does...
They possibly don't suspect any of the locals at all, and they never really have, have they. Doesn't seem any of the usual drivers/people who park there are under any kind of suspicion. Lurker, running man... just people doing other stuff. Not labelled as POI at all. The "ongoing investigation into the vehicles" has been the reason to stay relatively quiet and squeeze the truth out of someone for a very long time. Once it's confirmed he was in a car, then we finally know everything there is to know about this case the same as the police, the family etc, and there are probably no more major leads to follow (other than mining data from app companies perhaps, or finding the phone).
Problem is, if a car did come INTO Short Brackland and not directly into the Horseshoe, taking my route in image into consideration, and that the main cctv of that location only looks at the road part of the horseshoe for 30 seconds every 2 minutes, the 3 vehicles that are seen on CCTV may not actually be the SUSPECT vehicle. They may just be 3 vehicles of no interest like the bin lorry. So they've got to discount all those, tracing their steps back etc, and yet he may never have gotten into one of THOSE.
I get a feeling they don't link any of the 3 vehicles to the missing phone... if they did something would surely be a bit...different? I don't know, like they would have released the make and model of these 3 or the suspect one if they were positive one of these 3 cars was linked to all of this, so that they could get to the phone (and of course, to Corrie)? They ALWAYS release make and model's of suspect cars?? Just not in Corrie's case.
NOTE: I'm just rambling. I'm not stating facts in this post. I just hope we get more info on the cars and the role a car plays in this. It's becoming impossible to be fooled into thinking this has anything to do with "on foot" anymore. The police lines of enquiry were exhausted pretty early on IMO. If the suspect car parked in Short Brackland they probably have nothing whatsoever.