My first post and Im going to throw myself into the deep end already.
The only one who ticks all the boxes for me at the moment is MW.
Its possible to have a male friend without there being any kind of sexual relationship. This doesnt mean to say that he may not have secret desires though.
According to MW he was at a Christmas party and didnt reply to Joannas text until an hour later. This contradicts the first report where he supposedly states that he was asleep in bed. If both quotes are true, then why change the alibi?
The wording of the text message apparently sent to Joanna: Where are you? Do you fancy a drink?
Considering Joanna had been in contact with MW via Facebook and email, then Where are you? doesnt make sense in the context that shes asking whereabouts hes now living. It may make more sense if there'd been a prearranged meeting and he hadnt turned up. Do you fancy a drink? could simply be brain working faster than fingers and could mean: do you still want that drink? In other words: where the hell have you got to? Do you still want that drink or not?
Warning!! The following is only speculation on my behalf.
MW wasnt far from Joannas home - Clifton Triangle where he was, apparently, attending his work Christmas party. Having read Joannas text he perhaps later met up with her at the flat. Something happened which ended in Joanna being strangled. Perhaps he harboured secret desires for his friend which perhaps surfaced with the help of alcohol induced Dutch courage consumed previously at the party? Perhaps Joanna refused his advances? I can only speculate.
Everythings gone wrong. He now has a dead person on his hands. So what to do? The problem here is how on earth did he get Joannas body out of the flat? If having successfully (somehow) removed her body, he perhaps placed her in a temporary place of hiding. He returns to the party where he replies to Joannas Where are you? text at around 9:20pm saying he cant make it. Perhaps at a later date, when his thoughts are more in order, he moves her to Longwood Lane at a time when there will be less activity in the area.
Back to Joannas text. She apparently sent it at around 8:20pm before heading off to Bargain Booze and Tesco. Shes only just sent the text and hasnt received a reply to say hes not coming, so theres no reason to cancel plans just yet and still get the things in for the evening just in case.
At first it didnt seem unusual to buy two 330ml bottles for personal consumption...however; the Tesco CCTV seems to show Joanna holding two plastic bags in her right hand. One black; one white. The dark bag looks to contain two small bottles, so presumably the two bottles of cider, while the light bag looks as if it theres a taller bottle...possibly wine. If that is a bottle of wine then it suggests she was expecting a visitor that night after all.
Going by what we do know, Joanna sent a text to MW and no one else. Going by the wording of the text, he seems the most likely person to be the company she may have been expecting.
But... None of the above explains the missing pizza or (if that is a bottle of wine in the white carrier) where the bottle of wine has gone the police mentioned cider, but not wine.
For me, at least for the moment, MW and GR are teetering on the top rungs of the suspect ladder. GR mostly because it seems odd to be that emotional when at the time it was a plea for a missing person. Youd be forgiven for thinking that the press conference was after finding Jos body. My main suspicions are the lack of photographs from the Christening and (apparently) skiing. Surely photos had been taken at an event such as this? With the tide of suspicion swelling over GR's whereabouts over the weekend I thought this would be something his half-brother and/or sister-in-law would release. And eight out of ten murders involving women tend to be at the hands of their nearest and dearest.
Having said all that, there is a danger that I may be trying to make things fit, so I could very well be wrong.
and simply not noticed. (I know personally from search and rescue that even when you are deliberately searching it is possible to go straight past what you are looking for and not even notice it.)
