2) If the body had been in a different part of the loft before, why would it have been moved later to be over the very house where it could be found more easily?
Do you mean Rachel Mcclean? She was Tanner's g/friend. Rachel Nicholls was the woman killed on Wimbledon Common in front of her 2-year-old son.This does remind me of the Rachel Nickell case - maybe just because I did see her body taken out of the house and also it happened actually in a street close to where I lived.John Tanner, the boyfriend and then murderer also gave public interviews.
Initially it was thought she'd been home that night with Tia and Hazell, but later it emerged that she'd actually been working as a carer and didn't get back home until after Tia had already 'allegedly' disappeared.Have we ever heard if Grandma checked on Tia when she got home from work in the morning or did she just go to bed?
Yes. The only thing we know now is that Hazell was the last person to see her. So from 4.15 pm on Thursday (discounting the 'witness' who claims she saw Tia leave the house on Friday) Hazell was alone with Tia. I guess Grandma's version of the timeline can easily be checked by the police, but if it's true, then Hazell was alone with Tia from Thursday afternoon onwards.I am thinking something happened Thursday night while she was at work myself.
Thanks. The co-codamol finally kicked in!Suzi, I hope your tooth is feeling better!
If the loft was used you have to get into it. If you could get into the loft why did police need ladders? It would not take rocket science to work out if the entrance to the loft had been used and the entrance to the loft would be in the house. How would the family have got access to the loft? It is not making sense to me that the police needed anything to access the loft. It would have been hard to get a ladder in and out of the house if there was no ladder there already. I guess the ladder if there is one could be part of the evidence?
If that body was in another loft did it get there through the entrance in that particular house?
there was once a case of a missing man in the US... he was last seen in his store.. (sorry I cannot recall the exact case but give me a bit for some recall for a link)... dogs searched for him, people searched for him, and he was later found inside the ceiling tiles of the store and he had committed suicide. Not saying that this is case.. just pointing out the fact that if a body is hidden (earlier link I posted said they took in ladders and there was speculation the body was recovered from the loft) that the earlier search dogs, the sniffer or tracking dogs, would not have traced a fresh and live scent up there.. only HRD dogs would have tracked that scent if he hid the body.
There may have been a ladder in the house at the time of the death. If I was crafty, and remember this man has a history of law breaking, I would hide the body immediately after the death, then get rid of the ladder before it came to light that the child was missing. You're not going to arouse as much suspicion carrying a ladder as a body. In fact didn't someone say one of the neighbors had an untidy garden? Maybe he just dumped the ladder into their garden making it look like something they've just thrown out!
BBC News just announced there have been two additional arrests.
A 46 year old woman on suspicion of murder and a 39 year old man on suspicion of assisting a murder