Found Deceased UK - Leah Croucher - Emerson Valley - Milton Keynes - #6

[RusselSprout]

I would still like to know where Leah went on the evening before she went missing.

Her parents said she left at 6.00 and came back around 7.15.

I always thought that this had something to do with her disappearance, after all she did lie to her parents about where she had been.

So where did she go? Why deceive her parents?

Did Leah Croucher lie to parents and disable phone locations BEFORE she went missing in Milton Keynes?

Missing teenager Leah Croucher may have disabled the location setting on her mobile phone the evening BEFORE she went missing, police have revealed.

www.miltonkeynes.co.uk

Do you think if the police have recovered leahs mobile phone, it may reveal where she had been and with whom?

 

[BrianJohnson]

Long time since I’ve been on here and terribly saddened to hear about the news about Leah. My heart goes out to her family - her poor brother also.

I have to ask the same question as wise owl. I hate saying it but could have NM have been the mystery man she had been seeing? Had he potentially groomed her, got to know her over the four months he was carrying out maintenance. It’s easy to start chatting to someone who regularly walks past. JMO.

Highly unlikely imho

I can see why she got involved with Mr X, by all accounts he was charismatic, funny, he had that swagger about him too and he had the looks

This guy was old, balding, fat, can’t see what Leah would find in him plus going by today it sounded like he travelled all over the country staying at camp sites

Zero chance they were seeing each other imho

 

[Kinners_D]

Apologies I have missed a few pages trying to catch up, am I right thinking that Police have named Maxwell a suspect on the basis of information from the house owners stating he was the only one who had keys to house at that time? Just on that information or have Police shared anything further to tie him to this, DNA on Leah's bag/items or anything other that places him as the main suspect?
Sorry if I've missed this.

The press conference said it was based on being the only person to have keys and access to the property but they were keeping their cards close to their chest on DNA etc.

At that time they still did not have forensic confirmation the body was Leah, I'm not sure they have confirmed that for sure now. But they obviously have a lot more they know that they are, rightly, not sharing.

 

[SteadyEddy]

As mentioned previously - Claudia Lawrence? Maxwell was jailed for Rape in June 2009 for an incident that occurred NYE 2008: Datchet man jailed for rape

Not sure when he was arrested for that but could have been free and on the prowl at the time of Claudia's disappearance in March 2009. He seemed to have links up and down the country.

Milton Keynes & Newport Pagnell ( his offending area) to York? Bit of a stretch I'd say.

 

[Skigh]

Apologies I have missed a few pages trying to catch up, am I right thinking that Police have named Maxwell a suspect on the basis of information from the house owners stating he was the only one who had keys to house at that time? Just on that information or have Police shared anything further to tie him to this, DNA on Leah's bag/items or anything other that places him as the main suspect?
Sorry if I've missed this.

As far as I have heard the keys are the only official statement the police made,though I feel they have other evidence they have not released to the public.

 

[OceanElix]

The press conference said it was based on being the only person to have keys and access to the property but they were keeping their cards close to their chest on DNA etc.

At that time they still did not have forensic confirmation the body was Leah, I'm not sure they have confirmed that for sure now. But they obviously have a lot more they know that they are, rightly, not sharing.

Thank you for this.

 

[Kinners_D]

Do you think if the police have recovered leahs mobile phone, it may reveal where she had been and with whom?

If they have her phone then they will be able to see a lot of things, they phone may have internal GPS tracking, even with the settings presenting it to apps etc. turned off so they may be able to get some raw data and build a timeline from that.
Messages and communications logs would be trivial to recover, even if deleted so it will shed light on any arrangements she would have been making hopefully, but we will probably never know what arrangements were being made, unless they were with the suspect.

 

[Aizeneh]

When I read about the ceiling being involved, the thought of the case in Shrewsbury where a young man lured a teenager to a house for “photography” reasons and got her to pose with a noose and she died.
If she was indeed held captive for week, perhaps he he set up some sort of restraints system to the ceiling joists.

 

[Kinners_D]

Milton Keynes & Newport Pagnell ( his offending area) to York? Bit of a stretch I'd say.

Known offending location is not the same as offending area. It was mentioned by the police today that he travelled a lot within the UK, so there could be several open cases which could be attributed to him.

 

[Kinners_D]

When I read about the ceiling being involved, the thought of the case in Shrewsbury where a young man lured a teenager to a house for “photography” reasons and got her to pose with a noose and she died.
If she was indeed held captive for week, perhaps he he set up some sort of restraints system to the ceiling joists.

I would be cautious on the "held for weeks" front, it screams of sensationalist press headlines for which there is no evidence for.

 

[Miss_French]

Milton Keynes & Newport Pagnell ( his offending area) to York? Bit of a stretch I'd say.

The police were trying to trace him at different addresses across the UK, including Scotland.

 

[Bluebear15]

Fortunately, we never named him here as far as I know.

He was named plenty of times on here.
The mods just removed the posts quickly.

 

[Bluebear15]

His actions bought the suspicion on himself tbf

Refused to cooperate with police, refused to give access to his phone so that police could see the messages between him and Leah and the timings of calls etc, he acted like he had something to hide so even if he is innocent he created suspicion

He clearly did cooperate with the police as they cleared him very quickly. Imo his religion played a major part in people labelling him a murderer. An older Muslim man in a relationship with a younger white woman must clearly be a deviant in many peoples eyes sadly.
Jmo, moo.

 

[SteadyEddy]

Known offending location is not the same as offending area. It was mentioned by the police today that he travelled a lot within the UK, so there could be several open cases which could be attributed to him.

Fully aware of that. But he did not travel as far as York imo. That kind of offender doesn't operate to far from where they feel safe. 0 evidence he ever went north. And 0 evidence he comitted offences in Scotland. He was on the run so of course they're going to try and locate him and known addresses in different areas. He is also just a suspect atm.

 

[jackal67]

It would seem odd for her to be abducted/murdered elsewhere then transported back to a house which was on her walking route to/from work.

Stranger things have happened but it seems unlikely

I was thinking that he may have followed her in a car parked up and then grabbed her. Having seen her using the route past the house previously?

 

[BrianJohnson]

He clearly did cooperate with the police as they cleared him very quickly. Imo his religion played a major part in people labelling him a murderer. An older Muslim man in a relationship with a younger white woman must clearly be be a deviant in many peoples eyes sadly.
Jmo, moo.

It certainly never crossed my mind nor am I aware it did with any other contributor on here (his religion/racism), plus he was only 28 when she went missing - 28/19 is not a big age gap, at 49 i dated a 32 year old for 7 months

In terms of the cooperation with the police/phone I definitely remember back in the day that the Croucher family claimed that, can’t remember if it was John or/and Haydon but the family definitely complained about X’s lack of cooperation with the police

Cooperation he gave could simply be an alibi which the police could not prove wasn’t true

 

[Kinners_D]

I was thinking that he may have followed her in a car parked up and then grabbed her. Having seen her using the route past the house previously?

I understand what you mean, but it's a lot of effort, when you could just wait for her to come to you.

 

[jackal67]

I guess it's possible, it would just be quite a large coincidence that the house he had available just so happened to be on her exact route to work.

he may have noticed she walked that way everyday and parked up and lay in wait for her on that day?

 

[Sarahlou]

I'm still reading through this thread but very interesting updates. Not what I was expecting at all, pretty surprising. I feel so bad for Leah's parents.

 

[BrianJohnson]

he may have noticed she walked that way everyday and parked up and lay in wait for her on that day?

Didn’t her mum say that Leah used different routes to work, changing all the time, for safety reasons? don’t think she used the same route every day