By putting it in the media it's all adding to the stress factor that person is undoubtably feeling.
Well it seems to me that a
hypothesis about whodunnit is being turned into a
fact on the basis of
another hypothesis about the police using the press which is even shakier than the one it is supposed to support.
I agree that various media sources are hinting at GR being the culprit and hinting at his brother being his only alibi, and trying to pressure the brother to "come clean"... But I see no evidence that this comes from the police and I wonder if the journalists don't "know" it's GR because they read it on Websleuths
Likewise, the media reps see the police hunting again at 44 Canynge Rd, getting plans, looking inside and outside, etc., and they conclude that they are looking for a place where the body was stored for a time. They further conclude that the person suspected of storing the body for a time was GR between Friday and Sunday. But you can bet your bottom dollar it wasn't the police that told them what they were looking for or who they suspected.
Suppose we try for a moment to imagine that GR was
not guilty and that he has abundant proof of this. Suppose he was seen leaving at 6.45 pm on Friday, that he stopped for petrol an hour later at a corresponding distance, that he made a couple of calls en route, that his mobile phone was on the whole time and that the police have traced his movements by triangulation and listened to recordings of his calls/texts. Suppose he stopped for a coffee after two hours and was captured clearly on CCTV. Suppose he arrived at Sheffield before 10 pm and was seen by his brother and sister-in-law and perhaps by others and definitely didn't go anywhere else. Suppose he had numerous witnesses for all he did during the weekend and that after returning to the flat he sent various e-mails, texts, etc during the 4 hours at times that show that he didn't have time to go out... etc. etc.
I don't
know that any of those suppositions are true, but it seems to me that supposing them to be true does not clash with a single known fact nor does it deprive us of alternative credible ways of explaining the murder which would call for much less luck than the GR hypothesis.
Let's note also that the GR hypothesis leaves us no explanation of the very mysterious 4X4 in Longwood Lane on Saturday morning which the police seem to think probably
was involved.
Finally, on the body language arguments, my point of view is summed up by Chesterton's story
The Mistake of the Machine.
