Just to clarify a common misconception,
we don’t know if RB presented himself to Marion as FNR.
In RB’s version of events (to be taken with a grain of salt), they first met in Switzerland when he was WW.
He claims they met again in 1996 or 97 after
she posted a lonely hearts ad that
he responded to. At inquest, he first said he responded as WW, then he said he can’t remember. I don’t think he was asked what name Marion specifically called him, maybe this will happen in April?
RB also claims he never used the FNR name or licence other than for the 1994 Le Courrier rencontre (obviously, I don't believe it).
We have no idea if Marion ever saw the 1994 rencontre, and we have no evidence RB ever called himself FNR during his affair with Marion in 1996/97.
Also note that RB used the Richard Westbury alias to travel in and out of Aus to Japan during Marion’s disappearance.
It is possible RB flew the JAL leg of the trip as Richard Westbury, then used FNR, Fredy David or some other name for the European leg of the trip when he was allegedly with Marion.
The reason I bring up Fredy David is that he and DdH excessively lied to obscure that alias, so I wonder if he was still using it overseas?
Which leads us to ask, what name did RB
actually use on Marion? There might be other reasons why Marion changed her name to FNMR, other than ‘it was RB’s name and she married him’.
As we’ve discussed, despite what it says on Marion’s passenger cards, there’s no evidence that she ran away permanently and was currently a married housewife living in Luxembourg. In fact, we know much of that sentence is
not true.
To me, it just looks as though someone tried very hard
to make it look that way. Just IMO.
