Hi, first time post so please pull me up on any rookie errors.
Felt like I needed to add a little local information here as I used to live on Poynders Gardens, the estate on Poynders Road right where she was last seen. I left about 5 years ago so it could have gotten dramatically worse since then, but I think people have a much worse impression of it than it deserves. I lived there for about 18 months and never saw any violence or crime at all. There are a lot of families that live there, and it was actually a pretty quiet area.
There's only one way into the entire estate from Poynders Road and one way from Agnes Riley Gardens both ways in would be overlooked by far too many people for someone to have taken her in there with no one seeing. Here's a maps link, look at the number of flats around there that overlook it -
Google Maps
In terms of her route I realised that almost every time I've crossed the common from North West to South, I've turned off the A205 onto Nightingale Walk. -
Google Maps
I've never questioned it before, but there are a few reasons, one the pavement (sidewalk for Americans) disappears on the right hand side, it's also a very busy and slightly complicated junction at the end of the A205 with no pedestrian crossing that doesn’t result in you having to walk the wrong way. It’s also completely covered by trees making it much darker whereas nightingale lane opens onto the common and is much less daunting and far quieter in terms of traffic. If SE did this too, then she would then almost certainly cross at the lights outside Clapham South Tube and then walk down Hazelbourne road which leads right onto Poynders Road.
There is CCTV that overlooks the crossing as well as the start of Hazelbourne. -
Balham Hill Hazelbourne Road/2021-03-03 - TfL JamCams Archive
Google maps makes it an 11 minutes walk from Clapham South Tube which seems about right to me, and if we place her at the corner of Poynders and Cavendish at 9:28 she would have crossed just after 9:15. We have shots at 9:10 and 9:20 with nothing in between.
I can’t see any figure that looks like her on these shots, but there is a silver SUV type vehicle that parks at 9:01 and is seen at 9:05 and 9:10 but gone by 9:20. In all likelihood it’s someone who popped into the M&S and then left, but if she was trailed, that could be where she was first spotted.
A question for regulars, is it odd that the time between shots is erratic? It goes 9:01, 9:05, 9:10, 9:20, 9:25, have police potentially already taken the 9:15 shot down? There’s also nothing between 8:02 and 8:36.
