UK UK - Suzy Lamplugh, 25, Fulham, 28 Jul 1986 #8

[AfricanGrey]

I’ve had another look at AS chapter 3, in which he writes that two young detectives were sent to the PoW to collect the items. AS implies this happened on the Tuesday, however the items were collected on the Monday night, by the police.

 

[tes1984]

I find it quite distasteful that DV can publish a complete character assassination of an innocent man, who is not difficult to identify, knowing that it could leave him open to abuse or attack.

This is what I meant by people having an ethical issue with DV's book.

DV has been accused before of omitting things to suit his theory.

 

[AfricanGrey]

The calls were genuine, my involvement does not extend to knowing what happened to the phone number

 

[rvlvr]

Genuine in what sense though? That the relief landlord received two calls, one from ‘Sarah’ and the other purporting to be from a policeman, or just that that was the relief landlord’s recollection of events?

Perhaps AS didn’t get the story quite right (I’m not disputing your input but obviously we only have your word for it) but was he right that none of this was satisfactorily explained?

 

[WestLondoner]

Is there a solid source for the diary etc being lost and found on the Friday? KH reckons he found them and phoned the bank the next day, which he could not have done on a Saturday in 1986. AL said they went to the PoW on Friday and the stuff was stolen, but he later denied ever going to the PoW. He can't have noticed the diary was stolen or lost on the Friday while with SJL at the pub so when and how did he hear about this loss? He didn't see her on Saturday and she seems to have blanked him all day Sunday. She could have mentioned it in the alleged Sunday phone call, but if so, why did she not inquire at the pub on Sunday? She had driven right past it to get home from her parents' house. And if they were found on Friday by MH, the permanent landlord, why did the police not take a statement from him?

It's also interesting that the police went to the pub for them on Monday evening. That says someone at the Sturgis office besides SJL knew what she had lost and where it was; nobody else could have told them.

Were the two calls satisfactorily explained? The one from "Chelsea police" in "the afternoon" could easily have been Fulham police at 6pm, so that one is easily dealt with. But who was the woman who called wanting "Susan" kept there if she showed up?