Just some quick questions to fellow Sleuths. I’m trying to get my head around the chain of events leading up to this horrible crime.
In the CCTV footage from the dress shop, we see AB pass "in a hurry" to the left (towards Hope Street) early in the footage. He then returns again, passing back to the right, several minutes later, at a more casual pace.
We later see AB and JM enter the frame together from the right.
There is also purportedly footage of JM passing an art gallery, with AB following behind. Do we know the location of the gallery in relation to the dress shop?
What I am trying to understand is:
Did AB pass by JM between the gallery and the dress shop (where he hurried past on his own)? If so, did they interact at that point? i.e. prior to the dress shop? Did he pass her by, see that she was alone/vulnerable, and hurry ahead to plan an attack? Or did he engage her in some way, and the subsequent exchange was all the more uncomfortable for JM because he had clearly returned?
Or did he simply get a notion of the direction she was travelling, went ahead to move a car, or obtain a weapon? Or was he simply scoping for a “quiet place”.
Was it pure chance (and awful, awful luck for JM) that AB happened to be parked in a location on Hope Street? The time he takes to hurry by and subsequently return, as shown on the dress shop CCTV, is too short for him to go any further than Hope Street (< 2 min). Or did he know her intended travel path?
I’m also trying to work out what was said between them outside the dress shop. AB clearly puts his hand up to the side of her face when they are in the right side of the frame. This does not support the notion that he is “offering to escort her safely” or that “someone is following you”.
He seems to either be “hitting on her” or “threatening her”. She is clearly uncomfortable in his presence. I know it is all guesswork, but I’m trying to reconcile her reaction to, and subsequent actions (e.g. phone call to brother, continuing her walk home, not calling her husband) in response to, her interactions with AB.
I am thinking JM would only turn down Hope Street if she thought the “danger” had passed. Or was she just “uncomfortable” rather than “in fear”. i.e. he propositioned her, rather than threatened her.
Does anyone have a theory? Sadly, the only person who knows, is AB.
In the CCTV footage from the dress shop, we see AB pass "in a hurry" to the left (towards Hope Street) early in the footage. He then returns again, passing back to the right, several minutes later, at a more casual pace.
We later see AB and JM enter the frame together from the right.
There is also purportedly footage of JM passing an art gallery, with AB following behind. Do we know the location of the gallery in relation to the dress shop?
What I am trying to understand is:
Did AB pass by JM between the gallery and the dress shop (where he hurried past on his own)? If so, did they interact at that point? i.e. prior to the dress shop? Did he pass her by, see that she was alone/vulnerable, and hurry ahead to plan an attack? Or did he engage her in some way, and the subsequent exchange was all the more uncomfortable for JM because he had clearly returned?
Or did he simply get a notion of the direction she was travelling, went ahead to move a car, or obtain a weapon? Or was he simply scoping for a “quiet place”.
Was it pure chance (and awful, awful luck for JM) that AB happened to be parked in a location on Hope Street? The time he takes to hurry by and subsequently return, as shown on the dress shop CCTV, is too short for him to go any further than Hope Street (< 2 min). Or did he know her intended travel path?
I’m also trying to work out what was said between them outside the dress shop. AB clearly puts his hand up to the side of her face when they are in the right side of the frame. This does not support the notion that he is “offering to escort her safely” or that “someone is following you”.
He seems to either be “hitting on her” or “threatening her”. She is clearly uncomfortable in his presence. I know it is all guesswork, but I’m trying to reconcile her reaction to, and subsequent actions (e.g. phone call to brother, continuing her walk home, not calling her husband) in response to, her interactions with AB.
I am thinking JM would only turn down Hope Street if she thought the “danger” had passed. Or was she just “uncomfortable” rather than “in fear”. i.e. he propositioned her, rather than threatened her.
Does anyone have a theory? Sadly, the only person who knows, is AB.
