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

[WestLondoner]

The response Barley gave when questioned about the possibility of Cannan using said flat in the special episode of the True Criminals podcast was genuinely laugh out loud funny, a complete non-answer. I’d urge anyone who hasn’t listened yet to give it a blast, what Barley doesn’t say is as revealing as what he does, imo.

Agree, and we know why. Three questions the inquiry never asked in 1986:

1/ have any sex offenders been released from (or allowed out of) Wormwood Scrubs, Wandsworth, or Brixton prisons recently?
2/ if so, where are they now?
3/ who were their known associates, and where do they live?

If they started by looking back one working day before 28/7/86 they'd have lit on Cannan under question 1.
Under 2, the probation service would have said Sutton Coldfield, and a 'phone call would verify that.
Under 3, there can't have been many, but there was this Taggart guy who lent Cannan a Sierra and had a flat half a mile from Shorrolds.

All that would have brought Cannan in for questioning, at which point you're a lot closer to eliminating him or not. Maybe it wasn't him; the thing is that if you question him in August 1986 you're going to find out.

This is the stuff retired LE absolutely does not want discussed. It's not that DV was onto a better answer - he's wrong about KH. But he exposed the ineptitude, confirmation bias, oversights and groupthink of the original and subsequent inquiries, and thereby discredits those inquiries' conclusions, including that this was Cannan.

The trolls' rationale for wanting to discredit DV's theory was that to discredit him was to discredit his work discrediting them. That was the game, I think.

 

[Konstantin]

But he exposed the ineptitude, confirmation bias, oversights and groupthink of the original and subsequent inquiries, and thereby discredits those inquiries' conclusions, including that this was Cannan.

The ineptitude was covered up or glossed over and yes he did do good work in picking it apart. The issue of the keys is a good question especially when you consider there's no real reason to believe she ever went inside 37SR.

And AS didn't know or didn't report - because I think he just used police sources for this bit - that there'd been tension, even a row relating to a commission that morning, which may perhaps have influenced SJL's mood or judgement.

Why didn't they ask those questions though - ineptitude or simply manpower or tunnel vision on trying to track down the man HR says he saw?