I believe that this was the scenario
@Yozzer.
It is only my opinion and perhaps others should do their own research but it goes like this:
At some point after CL returned home from work, she goes out and returns back to her cottage
She has arranged to meet with someone who she is in a relationship with, he has been having personal issues and we know that CL has been helping someone with this.
She goes out of her back door so as not to be seen and crosses the Alley into one of terraced houses where her "New Friend" is awaiting.
They have some fun, watch some telly, she checks her phone and does her normal texting
Her Dad calls, her Mum calls.
CL and her "Friend both enjoy Location, Location, Location" Perhaps he will build CL her dream location one day?
She returns a text to JK about "working 12 shifts on the trot, no fun for me" JK is suspicious of the text as she knows that CL is meeting SC on Thursday night and so knows the text is inaccurate. She knows that CL is also meeting her Dad on Friday and that CL doesn't work weekends and Mothers Day is approaching
(She reads this text as an F Off message)
JK feels she is being snubbed for some reason?
CL is clearly distancing herself from someone at Nags Head and so hasn't attended as normal since weekend (She was helping JK also with a problem that weekend)
It was the SAME problem and CL was the cause of the problem.
CL goes to bed with "new" friend as things are getting steamy.
Its now after 9 at the Nags and one of staff goes on their break, they smoke and so they go outside. They can see a light on in their boyfriends house and he is supposed to be working late?
She lets herself into boyfriends house and catches CL and boyfriend inflagranti.
A row emerges
CL gets caught in the crossfire and somehow she is strangled by the wire of her curling tongs.
"She is gone before she hits the ground"
The two return to CL house and make sure it looks like CL has just left for work. One of the two has an intimate knowledge of how CL lives and so it makes the setting of the scene easier, except someone always makes a mistake and
- They put the wrong slippers by the door-Joan spots this at a later date
- When they stage the scene, they forget that if she is supposed to look like fleeing she would have taken her handbag and passport / cards
- The man puts a footprint on her bathroom scales.
SC has a very good idea of what has happened but has already lost one friend and doesn't want to lose another and knows what the implications for the close group of Nags friends would be.
PL has his suspicions and will have shared them with police.
SC and PL remain close to friends to see if they can glean any information
Sightings
Breaking car-Car was flashing rear fog lights AFTER it passed someone they knew that morning to signal to them-It wasn't breaking
Alley man Evening-An admirer of CL who didn't know that she was seeing someone else that night, checking up on her as she didn't answer her door
Alley man Morning-Same person but starting to feel they were being avoided-Not Guilty of murder though.
White Jacket man was DR in the evening on his way to Nags
White Jacket man again was DR-It was his Maroon Volvo
Melrosegate sub station sighting-Not relevant
University Road argument-The two culprits having a row about where to put the body in the Maroon Volvo car they had borrowed that was always parked in HP
People at CL door (Man with fringe, Two men the week before, Person on morning) All CL's complex and mysterious friends)
Hair Dye, To make it look like she had changed her identity and fled
I recall one of CL friends saying "If I knew who murdered CL I would march them straight to the police station"
But what if it wasn't murder but manslaughter and that person was the culprit?
Would they march themselves to the cop shop?
And so it was a dreadful accident but because of CL complex and mysterious relationships.
Oh so many killings happen in this way.
She was a Lovely Lovely lass, she enjoyed her life and was single so why not-She didn't deserve to die for it though.
Tragic for all involved but its time for the truth to out.......
IMO DYOR
) would generally agree with this version. Like others, I differ on a few points, but it follows the direction suggested by Dai Malyn in his summing up statement that it may have been a joint enterprise committed by her acquaintances or even, dare I say, people who she thought were her friends. I struggle with the term 'accident' because all adults have to take responsibility for their actions; jealousy or momentary loss of control should never justify the taking of a life. The law is more forgiving of young people who are still not mature enough to control their impulses but if an adult is of sound mind when the act was committed (and the perp/s have been smart enough to cover their tracks for 12 years) then they should feel the full weight of the law for not only taking a person's life but preventing a lawful burial and perjury. If or when this case is cracked, it will be interesting to learn whether it was 'a moment of madness' or a more calculated act.
