Just thinking out loud, it sounds like the belongings were found before the body. It doesn't sound like it was the body or a smell etc that raised the alarm. The Police have then probably came in and started tearing the house apart. If it was cleaners as reported in MSM, I wonder where they would have been? The cleaners aren't going to be pulling up the floorboards or the like, which might suggest the belongings were more out in the open? Which has potential implications.
First time poster here - first time I’ve noticed something useful to a discussion! There’s a bit in the Guardian (Forensic experts join Leah Croucher inquiry at Milton Keynes house | UK news | The Guardian) that shines some light on this, but if anything makes the whole thing even weirder:
“A tipoff from a member of the public on Monday led detectives to the property where “items of concern” were found, DCS Ian Hunter said on Wednesday.”
“Police began searching the house on Monday and launched a murder inquiry when they found a rucksack and other personal items belonging to Croucher.”
So it seems what was found initially was neither Leah’s belongings or a body, but some other ‘items of concern’ that were serious enough to warrant immediately calling the police. They then seem to have found the belongings in their search and presumably ripped the place apart after linking them to LC.
What I can’t work out is what these ‘items of concern’ might be, and why on earth they’d be left in a place/way/state that would alarm a cleaner enough to call the police, when someone appears to have gone to the extent of hiding a body in a house in a way where the smell hasn’t been an immediate giveaway.
It’s completely bizarre, although it’s hard to see how it can be someone who doesn’t have very close links to that property, so the net has just got a lot, lot tighter.