UK UK- Joy Hewer, 50, Teacher/church volunteer, sexually assaulted & fatally stabbed in chest, apartment set on fire, Walthamstow, 17 Oct.1995 *REWARD*

[GTB72]

Maybe he was deciding whether to call it in, or just leave it for someone else to report, and after a minute or two his conscience got the better of him?

The first screenshot is the bus stop today. The stop has been moved 50 yards closer to Forest Road in the direction of Walthamstow/Leyton stone.

The second screenshot is where the bus stop and phone box was in 1996.

The third is from Crimewatch 1996 showing the phone box and bus stop at night, at 2A Fulbourne Road.

I like your theory of the driver's conscience troubling him and thus stopping to make the call but I am more inclined to think that since he was travelling in the Chingford direction, moo, that that was the first available phone box that he saw.

Very difficult to get into the driver's mindset here.

EBM.

 

[GTB72]

There's

It's a direct quote from one of the investigating officers about the phone caller being 6ft4 and slim.

I guess it's possible that DC McLeary was misquoted (the newspaper report contains some inaccuracies) or that he was quoted correctly, but mixed up his POIs.

It does seem a massive coincidence if the running man and the caller are both slim and 6ft4, but who knows?

The running man was seemingly seen at either 10.45pm, or at just after 10.30pm. The phone call wasn't until 11.18 pm, so there appears to be a big gap between the two sightings.

BBM.

Yep, I can't get my head around that at all.

 

[tes1984]

Surely if Joy had some kind of association with a 6ft 4 black man then it would of cropped up in investigations at some point?

AFAIK Joy had lived in Walthamstow all her life. She worked in the area as a teacher for many years, so presumably had a lot of formers students, grown up and still in the area in 1995.

She volunteered at the Mission, but was also active at her local church in Walthamstow. In addition she did volunteer work for a homeless charity, so she might have had a lot more associates than the typical retired woman, living alone.