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@Vermont24 do you think the sets of steps to the river behind the derelict buildings would be well known to locals? It looks very grim there so I'm guessing not the place many people head to for a picnic in the park.
Could PR have known about them just from taking the kids to the park or would he have needed to do a bit of snooping around.
I know the buildings are derelict but are they used at all by dealers / smokers / youffs. What I'm saying is how secure would PR be in thinking he'd be undisturbed if he went there. Possibly after being at the bench
I'm still trying to feel whether everything happened as an accident or whether Libby was just the victim of a plan to escalate his tastes. If it was accidental would this be an obvious spot for a panicking person?
The area is well known to locals yes. Along this stretch kids sit along here at sunset when the weather is warm. You cannot fail to bump into a dog walker along here at all day light hours.
I knew about the steps because I knew people who were in the rowing team back in the 80s when the boathouse and the steps were actually in use!
Kids and dog walkers would probably know about the steps.
As for someone like PR... I would be have to be wondering why a man living on Raglan with a young family would be exploring that area?
I'm a cyclist and a photographer - I've done lots of urbex around Hull, so I was already very familiar with this abandoned area.
But why would PR be venturing this far? Bringing his family to the park? Walking a dog (did they have a dog?). He would naturally enter the park via Beresford, park his car in the car park or the stretch outside, and use that path to the riverside.
That would presuppose either that he was already thinking and planning for something, and mentally mapping places out for future use, OR he became familiar with the area as a 'local' and naturally gravitated towards it when his offending escalated.
For my money - I can't see a man in PR's situation naturally becoming familiar with the park and this part of the river bank. There's no major impetus we know of - i.e. cycling, photography, dog walking, to bring him to the riverbank.
But I guess living here with a family for a few years, there is every chance they regularly used the park.
As for the abandoned buildings - they have been there so long most people just see through them. Kids gravitate to them obviously. There's always signs of recent fires in there.
However, for dealing and kids actually hanging out, that would more likely be the skate park than the abandoned buildings. It's not the place for dealers, if at all that would be the skate park.
