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Hi, longtime lurker here; I've posted a very few times.
A couple of observations I have from reading this particular case, which are a bit OT:
The Daily Mail (as mentioned already) is notoriously bad at conflating details, from dubious/spurious sources, and creating authoritive but highly inaccurate articles; e.g. rumour/SM/internet speculation/cherry picked items from other news sources become fact
When I read an interesting/major story there, my first step is to then seek out other sources to try & see the wood from the trees.
Security camera video has surely been both a huge help, but also hindrance (some wild speculation & opinions - not necessarily just here).
Eye witness descriptions often turn out to be wildly disparate, & often wrong
. Note, please, that I'm not saying WG is lying, nor am I saying I believe his story. However, an example of people's powers of observation (sparked by all the discussion surrounding the dreadlocked man here) : I have 2 100% Caucasion friends with blonde/light-coloured dreads, who have been described to me by others who don't know them, on more than one occasion, as "that black dude". IMO, some mental processes, perhaps influenced by societal conditioning, especially if one only see a glimpse of the person, or if one is concentrating on something else, can lead to erroneous "memories"/perceptions. I.E. "Dreads = black", even if to me, it's totally clear to me that neither of my mates are anything but white.
Re LE: what they do and don't reveal: years ago, an anonymous witness who saw a police sketch of a wanted man, informed police it was one of my sons
. I was interviewed (at work) by LE, who gave me no clue as to why, & asked lots of what I perceived as non sequiturs.
Eventually, they told me what it was about, showed me sketch, we went straight to see son, & LE actually laughed when they met him. In addition to a watertight alibi, he looked NOTHING like sketch/description, & we learned later that they had already arrested perp, & investigation had to do with witness' possible involvement in other crimes.
N.B. I'm NOT COMMENTING on the people seen/not seen but described as POI on the videos for this case!! Just giving an example of the unreliablity of descriptions.
Gosh!! Sorry for being so long-winded
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