Konstantin
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Yes, I posted the link to that MSM a few days ago. I commented then on the narrator stating that JC frequented the PoW, but that the editing was done in such a way that it was not directly stated by either the 'interviewee' or DCI Ault.
So there may be a link. It's not our imagination but its provenance is questionable.
What is of more interest is AL discussing the 'missing' items. The rapid blinking (sign of stress) and the 'other items'....whatever they were.
By all accounts SJL was not too concerned about the missing items until the morning of the day she went missing. Did she realise before then? She did have a full on weekend.
How could AL be so certain they were taken in the PoW, assuming SJL did not realise until Monday morning, and he is unlikely to have spoken with her between the time she realised (Monday A.M.?) and when she went missing.
My feeling is that AL borrowed the items as he was checking up on SJL over his suspicion about her being unfaithful.
I think it is entirely plausible that AL knew more about the missing items than he let on. According to AS the missing items were a chequebook, a pocket diary (which sounds like one of those little ones people used to write birthdays and appointments in, not the A5 or A4 desk diary things. They still sell them at Paperchase for example), and a postcard which could mean several things, although it is unlikely to have been a card someone posted to her home or it would have her name and address on it, making it easy for the pub to have known where she lived. People buy postcards from art galleries, there used to be blank postcards you could buy for some reason. The card could have been stuck in the diary.
I am not very convinced about DV's interview reporting, as I have noted elsewhere, but for what it is worth, when DV and his assistant met AL for an interview in a cafe, AL denied that they had ever drunk in the POW and said that the story of her losing hte items there "never happened". He got very upset with DV and stormed out which DV reported as being highly suspect, but could have been because he realised the interview was not what he thought it was supposed to be (DV might have come across like he was hinting at suspecting AL, even if he wasn't-- or that he was trying to push alternative theories--and/or that AL is sensitive about the missing items, even after all this time).