The office junior took SL's car out that morning and it was left out of public view near to where it was eventually found.
Well, except that's not what he said. He said he left it in Whittingstall Road. If he had not, presumably SJL would have been back promptly to ask where it really was.
When SL left the office at lunchtime she was told it was parked in the road running behind the Crocodile Tears wine bar and it was from here that she was abducted.
Leaving aside whether there was any room behind CT for a random car to park there, this entails JC the office junior being part of some conspiracy. JC was 18 years old, however, so I struggle to see what criminal contacts he might have had.
Abduction as soon as she left the office does seem like a possibility - in fact, if you subscribe to the view that WJ accurately remembered the time her car was outside, it's almost the only way this can be true; the car was taken immediately to 123SR and SJL was taken elsewhere and not to 37SR. I just don't see what role an 18-year-old can have played.
The Mr Kipper diary entry was done by the apparently untraceable temporary secretary sending the police to Shorrolds Road.
There's no evidence for this. The handwriting looks the same across the whole page to me, and we now would have two malign colleagues conspiring against her.
If the car was indeed originally parked inside the gate outside of which it was later found it would therefore have been rolled out onto the street later that day thereby sending the police to Stevenage Road.
There's no reason to think it was inside the garage. A white Fiesta was apparently seen in that position from about 12 noon. As it overlapped the garage entrance, you'd have a job to position it there if it had been inside the garage. If someone at 123SR was involved why would they dispose of the car outside their own house?
SL's belongings would have been lifted during her Sunday trip to Worthing and then placed outside the POW pub for the temporary landlord to discover thus creating the narrative around the pub.
So a third person now followed her undetected to the coast to lift her stuff, then drove back to town and dropped it outside the pub, assuming it would be found? Why is this more likely than SJL simply having stopped off
en route home to make a personal phone call she didn't want her roomy to overhear, and mislaying her stuff in the process? The trouble with laying all these false trails is that you risk being seen doing it.
If someone wanted to harm SJL and get away with it, the best way is to get her out of the office on some pretext, most obviously a viewing in a quiet street. You don't attempt anything here, because the location may be unsuitable and you have to assume the office knows where she went. Instead, from there you take her to your lair, hopefully unseen, which she enters and never leaves after you have harmed her. Nobody knows where this was, so the trail goes cold wherever she was last seen.
The logistical problem is around cars. You don't want to go directly to
your lair in
her car because then it may be seen outside or
en route, and you're rumbled. So you need to go there indirectly. You need to get her out of her car into yours, and to do so well away from the viewing. So you get her to follow you, and you drive from the viewing to 123SR, where you pull over abruptly. She hastily stops right behind your car and gets out to see what's up. You say, Jump into mine for a second. Then you head off to your lair, and neither 37SR where you may have been seen, nor 123SR where you got her out of her car, are crime scenes. They're necessary dead ends; cutouts intended to fog the picture as to where she really went.
If JC was behind this and was using his mate JT's flat, garage, cars etc then 37SR and 123SR make sense. 37SR's a 2 minute drive from the flat; 123SR's a mile directly away from the flat, and vice versa of course.
