Some people say there was contradiction/ confusion about what day AL said SJLs stuff went missing.
But from my reading here, info in other peoples posts, it seems the permanent manager knew items had been found (did he know they were SJL’s?) before he left. And we know CV and his partner knew as they both interacted with SJL on the subject.
There certainly is confusion, because AL initially said the property was lost at Mossop's next door on Friday whereas the PoW said it was lost there on Sunday.
Given where CV reckons it was found it is not really possible for it to have been lost there two days earlier and walked over, nor is there mention by anyone of SJL mentioning this loss over the weekend. So it surely was lost on the Sunday. AL said that the PoW wasn't the sort of place he and SJL would ever have gone. He therefore assumed that if stuff of hers was found near Mossops it must have been lost at Mossops, which is an assumption too far by AL. He overlooks the possibility that it wasn't lost at Mossop's and that SJL went to the PoW, but without him. As she was four-timing him it is highly likely that she carefully managed where she went with whom, as not to do so risked exposure.
So the likeliest explanation for AL's account is that he honestly but mistakenly believed her stuff was lost elsewhere.
The permanent manager knew about this stuff but he did not know or register the name of the owner, which let's face it nobody else had heard until the following Tuesday. So he goes on holiday having instructed CV on the lost property procedure, including where to keep it so any of the staff will know where to look for it if claimed. It's only a year later that he finds out that the last phone call and last errand arranged by the most famous missing person/horse after Lord Lucan and Shergar were to pick up that stuff from his pub, and his temporary manager never said a word.
It's truly amazing actually. If I were to be interviewed by the police at work, in relation to something that had happened at work, I would absolutely have to disclose that to management, it would have to be reported up the line and indeed my firm would probably have a lawyer attend any interview. Was it really SOP at that pub to conceal this sort of thing? If there's been a fight at the pub and CV had witnessed that would he have kept quiet about that, too? Who does that?
It's only from MH that we think CV and KF split up "about six months later". I wonder if MH was a few months off and it was actually about a year later; as in, when KF found out CV had concealed a police interview from her? If I were interviewed by the police I would certainly tell the other half and management at work; how weird would it be to do neither? We know CV didn't tell KF because when DV spoke to him he said she knew nothing about it and was aghast that DV had spoken to her.
If anyone other than CV was at the pub why were they not spoken to? Was this obviously sloppy work the reason CV later thought he could get away with retroactively changing his statement?
