Australia Australia - Marion Barter, 51, missing after trip to UK, June 1997 #12

[caitlincurious]

Why does it already seem Blum is so slow to answer? I hope we don’t have to have another round of the inquest…

 

[TootsieFootsie]

His ad

 

[caitlincurious]

Ok so he says that he met up with Marion Barter at the Big Prawn in West Ballina. she hadn’t realised that the FR from the ad was him…?
He said it was his ad!

 

[chloborose]

Boom! Caught him in a lie

 

[KeenSleuth17]

Whooops!!! Foot in mouth!!! “When she answered my ad”… apparently no one answered his ad remember?!

 

[hoodunnit]

OMFG! Did he just say that? "When she answered MY ad?"

 

[caitlincurious]

Also noting for those catching up later - Casselden said that his children had been contacted my the police for questioning.

 

[hoodunnit]

What's the travel exchange thing about? Have I missed something?

 

[caitlincurious]

RB says that the last time he saw Marion was when she collected boxes of teaching/didactic material from his house in June 1997. This contradicts his earlier statement under oath on February when he said he last saw her in at her house in Southport.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Parkinson makes you tell lies

 

[caitlincurious]

Omg. RB says since the first inquest he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease… and gets headaches

 

[TootsieFootsie]

When that doesn't work, he'll get a different illness.

 

[Deleted member 249471]

Yeah, that's not Parkinson's, that's all your lies and crimes catching up with you in a court room.

 

[chloborose]

If his ‘diagnosis’ gets him out of this in some way so help me I’ll ..

 

[mishy66]

Parkinson makes you tell lies

I was waiting for the medical diagnosis to come out... and there it was

Just waiting for the tears now...

 

[TootsieFootsie]

His "shakes" come and go.

 

[KiwiNZ]

she answered the ad !!

Oh my god he had been cracked

 

[mishy66]

ANSWERED THE AD!

Finally !

 

[Deleted member 249471]

Okay, that's explosive! He can't remember but there IS a possibility he introduced himself to Marion as Remakel

 

[KeenSleuth17]

Wow he can’t keep up with his own lies today. By golly that Parkinson’s has really gotten to him.