Yes, "last seen in Stockton Brook area at 7.45pm" seems incorrect in that article? Maybe Samantha's car was picked up on CCTV somewhere in Stockton Brook area near her home at 7.45am or a bit later as she went home? Not sure.
When I heard of the arrest for kidnapping, I must admit that I did think of the Gaia Pope case where police seemed to get things very wrong. But they are damned if they do escalate things and then damned if they don't. But the red flags for me at the moment are pointing far more strongly to foul play in Samantha's case, whereas Gaia's state of mental health was much more of a concern for me. As far as we know there weren't any indications of acute mental health problems with Samantha, although as we all know sometimes some people can hide this very well.
The first thing most nurses do on reaching home is to immediately take off the uniform, throw it in the washing machine and have a bath or shower. You're usually hungry, thirsty and tired as well. I knew some colleagues who would be able to stay awake as maybe they had to look after children or relatives but if you were back on night duty again, as Samantha was scheduled to be, you would know you had to get some sleep. Early afternoon, 1 pm or 2ish would have been about the time I would have surfaced.
Interesting about the Radley purse. I wonder if they can tell from the house if she got dressed again in civvies to maybe just take her purse and run a local errand? But if she left the house voluntarily she would surely take her keys, unless she kept a door key in the purse? And as others have said, where's her phone?
Clearly a lot was going on in her personal life so that could cause a lot of stress, but I just don't see her causing all this worry to family and abandoning her work which is her vocation. I think the police are right to question everything and everyone very hard here.
