Hi everyone,
I have been closely following this case as soon as it appeared on the news. I have only now caught up fully on all the posts- I wanted to read everything in order not to repeat something that's already been said (but that's quite likely as the thread is moving fast and I've probably forgotten some posts!) Anyway it's great to have a place to discuss cases like this with fellow curious minds.
I too had my suspicions about SH from the start- particularly the crazy detail in his interview regarding cleaning the house. He went OTT and that was a giveaway- but his emotions were convincing which could indicate he's far more inteligent and manipulative than first given credit, or that Tia's death was an accident and this was genuine remorse (or he was in denial due to this and was trying to convince himself of a lie.)
I kind of have the feeing that Tia's mother's phone could be key in this- I had similar thoughts as other posters, in that perhaps Tia saw something on the phone from SH to her mother that she wasn't supposed to see and TS confronted SH about this. However based on the manipulative SH theory, perhaps SH could have talked his way out of anything incriminating: he had half the nation convinced in his interview, surely he could talk round a 12 year old girl? Anyway the lack of CCTV, phone left on charge (a girl that was always 'glued to her phone', and I'm sure I read somewhere that her step-gran said she always charged her phone at night- which means I'm inclined to believe something happened on the Thursday evening/overnight Thursday/Friday). Everything certainly pointed to her not leaving that house, or having gone very far at least and it's shocking she wasn't found earlier if the area/loft had previously been 'searched'. As an aside (forgive me if someone has already pointed this out)- it was also reported that Tia supposedly left for the shopping centre in Croydon with just £10 in her pocket (this was just a story by SH, but conveniently means that her purse being in the house wouldn't necessarily suggest she had never left.)
The one thing that stands out to me is the reports that the circumstances around SH's arrest were 'highly extrordinary' or words to that effect- I can't for the life of me find this article now but I believe it was either Daily Mail or Sky news that reported this on the day of is arrest. What could that mean? Perhaps that he was seen to be distributing flyers/ drunk etc.- but to me it sounds like much more than that. It's highly worrying and, given the rumours doing the rounds that there's so much more to come out on this case, I think that maybe the truth about Tia's murder (and maybe the events leading up to it) will emerge to be far worse than anyone other than the killer themselves could have dreamt up...
