I find both the appeal and the looming Crimewatch recon bizarre.
Why reconstruct images we have already seen 'for real' through CCTV? I dont understand the benefit of that, how 'made up' images and angles are meant to help recollection better than actual film footage which has already been widely distributed. If anything, they will blur actual recollections anyone might have.
To learn now that the pizza wasnt eaten by the victim is quite a revelation, given that the police allowed a public scenario to develop - quite reasonably arrived at - which involved Ms Yeates arriving home (uncertain), eating the pizza (did not happen) with or without someone else (uncertain), drinking cider (no comment on this) then being murdered (fact).
Now we have half a bottle of cider drunk but no pizza eaten. Is that not strange? Is that in keeping with the girl's habits, having arrived home with a pizza?
The parents say the murderer was 'acquainted with' their daughter or vice versa. Surely then the murderer would be acquainted with her boyfriend also. Lets start there. What about the facebook interviews - her contacts and friends? Not a peep.
Why issue a nationwide appeal, quite aggressively challenging people who saw someone behaving oddly in response to the news or justifying the killing, and then say that the killer was known to the victim? Meaning, the killer isnt just anybody but someone known to the victim, which narrows it down quite a bit. The aggressive part is where anyone who suspects something, or has noticed something odd, is described as 'consciously' protecting a murderer and therefore responsible for the outrage.
Thats very strong stuff for a killer who, it states, is known to the victim and her circle of friends, and isnt just 'anybody', in Birmingham or Leeds or Glasgow or wherever, who happened to come home late on December 17 flushed and dishevelled to the consternation of his missus.
If you live in Liverpool, therefore, or anywhere not in the vicinity of Jo Yeates, ignore this nationwide appeal.
Also, the cider. I take it there is an actual cider bottle in existence, or two, one half-empty?? Because while we have seen a replica pizza box, we havent seen anything of the cider bottles, or heard anything about whether a glass or glasses were used for the drinking and then washed up in the sink or whether it was drunk from the neck.
Let alone if there was any forensics off the bottles or if the girl had actually drunk cider before being killed. Again, another set of oddities we might hear about by accident or design or police gossip a few weeks from now.
The police seem to think that the public, once appealed to, only think about things the police want them to think about; and dont notice things the police arent interested in them noticing. And dont ask questions the police dont want asked just yet. But it doesnt happen like that.
Like, for instance, how accurate is the clothing in which the WPC will appear as Ms Yeates? And is that the clothing her body was found wearing?
This is becoming more and more depressing by the day.