Nothing about this case makes sense, and I don't mean just a little bit. I mean as if things have been deliberately constructed to not make sense. Of course, the big picture items are baffling, like why did he go to Dovestone Reservoir at all, but the little things don't make sense either.
1. He was wearing his glasses to check in at Lahore, but was not wearing glasses in the Picadilly CCTV?
2. He paid cash for 5 nights at the hotel in London, checked out after one night, but didn't get a refund for the rest of his stay?
3. Pakistan keep cctv images of passengers checking in from a year ago, but apparently Heathrow don't?
4. Manchester city centre is plastered with cctv cameras, yet there are no images of him after leaving Picadilly?
5. He travels, presumably, by taxi, to Greenfield, but instead of being dropped at the reservoir car park itself, where the walk up the hill commences, he is dropped off somewhere before the Clarence Hotel? Instead of asking the taxi driver for directions, he stops at the pub to ask? And the taxi driver never comes forward, despite extensive police enquiries?
6. His friend travelled to Pakistan with him, and picked him up from the airport, but apparently no one has any clue why he returned to the UK. His friend was not curious? No one asked him?
7. He goes to live in a climate which he hates in a country which is not exactly hospitable to his faith, yet sends letter with a California postcode? And this has nothing to do with what happened?
8. He uses a credit card to pay for his ticket, but this has not been followed up?
9. He has a large wad of cash on him, enough for 5 nights at a hotel, train tickets and 130 quid left over, yet no record of withdrawing it from an ATM, or a card, or a bank account in the UK?
10. The cyclist discovers his body 10 hours at least after death and the arms are crossed over his chest, yet when emergency services attend the scene his arms are by his side?
11. The coroner declares he died of strychnine poisoning, yet the classic signs of strychnine poisoning, the distorted body, are completely absent?
12. His girlfriend says he never took so much as an aspirin, yet he is a recreational user of strychnine?
13. He has a tube ticket in his pocket from an expired journey when the machines in London keep your ticket after you have passed through the turnstiles?
14. He's travelled on the train to Manchester, which no doubt is also loaded with cctv cameras, yet there is no footage of him on the train?
15. We are presented with a Channel Four documentary, in which the police appear to have recreated all the scenes, on the telephone, having discussions, and so forth, for the cameras? Really? The police are actors now? Or were camera crews following the police around from the beginning of the case? The documentary includes scenes which are completely irrelevant to the final outcome, like interviewing the man who is convinced that Neil Dovestone is the "spit" of his father. It includes detectives speculating on his motives (a spy?) without any further evidence or comment. It obviously leaves out many crucial facts and details.
16. Luggage missing, wallet missing, glasses missing, cards missing, passport missing?
17. They've spoken to the surgeon who fixed his leg (see interview outside Coroner's Inquest with Det Sgt Coleman), yet what happened to his leg remains a mystery?
If this was a movie and I was trying to figure the plot out, I would conclude that at some level, it is all an elaborate hoax. Perhaps I've watched too many movies. Of course, its not a movie, but then again, it doesn't exactly seem to be real life either.
I apologise if this upsets anyone, but I've come to the conclusion that far more is known about this than is being put into the public domain, and at some level, someone is creating a situation. Perhaps that was David. Perhaps it is someone else. But something about this whole business is just not right.
