Hi all,
I've been following this thread for just over three weeks now and have finally plucked up the courage to create an account and make a post ...as a 21 year old philosophy student at a different university in the north of the UK who has drunkenly walked home by myself multiple times (no judgements please), this case has really hit home.
I agree with what seems to be the general consensus(?) here that PR attacked Libby and she's now in water. Reading between the lines of what information LE have given us, I think it's obvious that PR is spiderman and Libby got into his car. Although he has not yet been convicted for his charges, if that is the case then I think it's unlikely that Libby escaped one predator that night to fall into the hands of another whom LE seem to have no evidence of.
I think the 15 minutes of screams heard on the park/playing fields are far more plausible than the woman and her husband who heard a 'blood-curdling' scream and a banging gate. Having lived in a student house in a student area for two years, you hear those sorts of screams and bangs all the time - I really think this was just another drunk student and the woman just put two and two together and was trying to help.
RE PR's trespassing charges: again, having lived in student housing for the past two years, burglaries happen all the time. In the student suburb I lived in they would happen almost daily. Very often they would actually occur when people were home in the middle of the day. It happened to the house next door to me in broad daylight - someone entered the house through the back upstairs window whilst the students were downstairs and they made away with three macbooks. Nobody saw or heard anything. I had a ground floor bedroom and if I heard someone moving about upstairs or come through the front door (ours was always locked but I know in other student houses that's not the case), I'd assume it was one of my housemates. It would be the last thing on my mind to check for sure. I was also the only one out of my five other housemates to lock my internal bedroom door every time I left. Had I had a bedroom upstairs I probably would have locked it while I was downstairs too. It's crazy to me that they didn't, but I do think it's quite common for students to leave their internal doors unlocked unless going home for Christmas, etc. I don't think PR had any keys to houses, it's likely that doors were unlocked or windows left open. Student houses are often broken into, and I think PR knew that they're easy targets.
So sorry for the long post, I've been wanting to reply to everything for ages lol, had a lot to get out