Agreed - in interviews etc all he could manage was trip hazards and disrespect to his mum really. It's like he could not improvise and embellish. He stuck to the script , whose script?:thinking:
Had to bring this post forward from last night - cottonweaver, it struck such a chord for me.
It's exactly how I see him - he has rehearsed to death his 'scripted' version of the killing and the dismemberment, so that he does not trip up in his sequence of events and show SH knew anything or was involved. But that's where it ends. He cannot think further than that, and that is where he harms his case and SH's case.
1. he cannot explain how he was going to pull off a kidnap of Becky without SH finding out. She would have done, no doubt about it. He didn't have a version ready when he was arrested and still hasn't come up with one in the trial. Strongly suggesting that SH was aware of and involved in what was going to go down when they went there that morning.
2. he has pain and physical difficulty hanging washing on the line, which conflicts with the idea that he subdued an active, kicking and resisting Becky without the assistance of the stun gun, restrained her, managed to keep her still while applying tape and handcuffs, carried her to the landing, and held his hand over her mouth for a long while. The only version that fits his plea of manslaughter is that Becky only resisted at the end when he was putting her in the case, which her injuries do not support and which defies common sense anyway. It all points to him having had help in the form of manpower to not only stop Becky getting away, but to overpower her, injure and kill her in the manner she died.
3.he bought a stun gun for SH's use, which conflicts with SH's account of thinking it was a torch.
4. he took the spare room (blood stained) duvet cover without it being relevant to putting Becky in the suitcase or any of his version of what happened, meaning that he did not have a case with him, or there would have been blood inside the case, and also meaning that he had no plan for hiding an alive Becky from SH to get her in the car boot - SH would have seen him carrying her out as he couldn't have known she would be outside for 15 minutes, he would expect her to return from a smoke after 5-10 minutes.
5. he dismembered the body with one hand so that he could hold the body still, but the weight and design of the saw implies he would have used two hands and with his eyes closed he would have damaged the bath and would have been unable to make the clean cuts through bone that he did - meaning the body was held in position somehow - by a helper.
6. he couldn't account for the neck wounds, or the other 40 bruises on Becky - mooting someone else did them
7. he didn't know Becky died of suffocation - thought she was strangled - mooting someone else did it
8. he doesn't back up SH's story that he was going to sort out the house when he bought cleaning materials and clingfilm and rubble bags - implying SH is lying
9. He placed body parts in the freezer - giving no account of how he stopped SH coming across them, when they had shopped for frozen foods together. revealing that there was no plan to stop her from seeing them.
10. he gave no explanation for SH to believe why their car could not be used all that week when it was left at her Mum's house or why they could not let the police in to search their house the day before the parts were moved.
11. he told SH to lie to her Mum about going for police interviews, and to say they were going for job interviews. Why would SH not think that strange - they were assisting police with finding Becky?
12. he doesn't explain how he got SH to continue to think he was out helping a friend all afternoon, after they returned home and he told her the bathroom was out of use. Neither does she explain it.
13. ETA - THE BIGGY - He admits that he is always sexually frustrated - has to watch
all the time. he isn't helping himself at all by this admission.
