Hello all, I’ve been following and reading with great interest and have a possible theory of my own. This is based partly on my behaviour at the same age as Libby, the self harming suggestions makes me feel that her mindset may be similar to mine at her age.
She returns home, disorientated when taxi driver drops her off. Doesn’t realise she is back or just doesn’t want to go in there alone feeling deflated and upset the night has come to premature end. The bench-I’ve done the same myself many times, just randomly sat down when drunk but feeling that you’re in a public place. The old guy who approached probably concerned her, we all have stereotypes. I would have declined his help. Then PR spots her and approaches as she’s upset. He is younger, not unattractive and doesn’t seem a threat, I agree with another earlier post that the Eastern European accent can be more charming/less intimidating, in certain situations. He probably asks if she wants to go home and maybe with him as comfort she agrees. It’s quite possible that she does tell him her postcode, sometimes it’s one of those things that is programmed into you when drunk, like you need to remember facts and they just come randomly. So he might have put it into the Nav as even if he’d been there before it might not have registered in his mind where he was. I don’t know the street names surrounding me despite walking past them quite regularly.
Next I’m thinking one of two things happened. She maybe did seem interested in him a little? I’ve done it under the influence, especially someone who is insecure and then there’s this chance of some attention. So did he drive and park somewhere near the park to be initimate? And thought all his luck had come at once before Libby suddenly realised he was full on and she made a run for it? In the dark, freezing, drunk and disorientated? Perhaps she did have an accident? And then he returns home in a panic because he is married and has a history of the crimes we have discovered and can’t afford to have all of that exposed (excuse the pun).
Alternatively the opposite happens and he makes the move on her and the same result is she does a runner. Maybe she even falls asleep in the car if he drives for a bit and then she catches him doing something inappropriate to himself when she wakes up?
So he keeps his head down for the following days but police find some footage with him in it and make the arrest. They discover her postcode in ‘a’ sat nav (not built in I realise) and when he calls family to explain why he’s been arrested he tells wife/sister the story. Only he can’t tell the the part about being parked up because he has a wife and children to consider so simply says he took her home.
So the police might consider this abduction because he didn’t plan to take her home as he went to the park but they can’t charge him with anything more because the end result was an accident? And of course they don’t yet have proof of that.
