Thank you
@moonsafari Was JK still working at Nags in March 2009?
I don't know.
CCTV - re: the five cameras. Are we certain they were all in action before March 18th/19th 2009 and that one/two/three weren't added following investigation into Claudia's disappearance and identifying blind spots? Remember Martin Dales was a keen CCTV activist before Claudia vanished, there are local Press articles to prove so. The lack of progress in the investigation that led PL to focus some of his energy on Claudia's Law could well have also led MD back to CCTV lobbying.
Kiri from what I can tell it's not possible to attain a close enough front shot before the POI turns onto HP from that distance and at that angle, but as Yozzer recently posted imaging technology now exists to make a zoom of these stills clearer. The phantom figure across the road question could potentially be answered outright via that camera view as it is though, surely...
Dark person walks back onto HR from HP towards CL house and NH. Only if they cross the road before the bookies on HR would doing so be viewable on HR CCTV, and only would police hold footage back if whatever else they might have been able to see is vital to the prosecution and/or witness testimonies. Bear in mind PR property is in shot across that stretch of HR.
At this point I am torn between Claudia's murder being one of the 90% of cases that are solved by unravelling a family/social/romantic web to identify the culprit/s, incl hired killers, and the 10% that are totally random or committed by near strangers.
If it's the 10%, then unless CL was abducted on the way to somewhere with her overnight bag the evening of March 18th or after being there on an unknown route next morning, in which case a secret boyfriend's silence really has made things 1000x more difficult and he should be prosecuted for it, it must have happened on her way to work before Melrosegate post office CCTV. The glaring opportunity is from the cycle track as was established early on, with St Nicolas fields off to the left and the far end of the back gardens along one side of Fifth Avenue on the right.
If she walked along Tang Hall Lane to start her shift at Goodricke College that morning (we still don't know this for sure although the NYP website timeline states she was to begin a 6am shift at Roger Kirk Centre cafe) there'd be CCTV at the promenade of shops 10-15 mins walk into her journey-- just after another entrance to the cycle track--one of which is the Co-op where an ex colleague who was sought in a CCTV appeal by NYP but never came forward allegedly speaks to the cashier about knowing Claudia a week or two after she disappeared. Seems to me there must be have been more to the exchange than is broadly explained to warrant said appeal. Another business along that promenade is a Thomas the Bakers that I'm pretty sure was an independent bakery for many years before that. When I heard about the psychic and her vision of an old bakery and railway tracks, I thought of the Rowntrees factory goods railway line that was turned into York's cycle track in the 80's and 90's.
As per a Reddit poster living along THL whose home was searched: police barely checked anything, not even the shed. A responsible investigation would have thoroughly searched every home and garden along Fifth Avenue and the ones on Alcuin and Eighth Ave (could be mixing street names up here but I can't access GMaps on my phone, you get the jist) that back onto that stretch of cycle track especially.
As a locksmith, SR's arrest could relate to a theory police had. As PR's brother and possible alibi, perhaps he was bait to extract truths about PR, AC and/or DR, pit loyalty to each other against loyalty to the others and JK, and ofc Claudia, in order to establish what seemed most likely to have happened under pressure.
Did police really, as JK told The Times, tell her that DR had admitted to Claudia's murder? Would police bother correcting an outright lie if not?
Presumably they suspected she was covering for him in some way and that his admission of guilt might prompt her to tell them what that is. Or he was implicating her and they wanted to see her reaction to an alleged admission from him. They weren't close with Snelling, unless that changed. I can only assume they suspect him more than they do each other but maybe not. Maybe police suspect Snelling *and* one or more of the four even. Indeed, if Claudia is buried somewhere at the uni it makes sense that more than one person she knew had restricted access to the grounds and buildings at the time from the perspective of the perp/s.
JK does write in her FB post that some rather than all of the arrested "loved Claudia and miss her even more" - who was indifferent to her? Was there significant divergence between each suspect's opinion of Claudia, each other, perhaps JK and even SC too? Do kinder words about CL imply innocence of the charges?
Was JK, under interrogation, veering towards implicating DR to police who then said he admitted it to gauge her reaction and perhaps attempt to establish if JK knew before or after the fact that Claudia was in danger?
