Yes, I really think the Sun to Fri change is the odd but inconsequential detail the police asked AS to alter. It puzzled him but he felt it had no bearing on rest of information. Unfortunately quite a bit of that centred on the unreliable testimony of HR. HR went to Belgium & said Kiper looked like the man he saw which looked nothing like his photofit. He also said he saw SL bundled into a van.
If this WAS the change AL could legitimately talk about lost item events taking place on Friday.
Barley has now told us in podcast SL DID effectively see someone post her parents on Sun night & tried to cover her tracks with AL. Did they ever get to bottom of who this was? The expat, especially if her plus one at 21st & his upper class/upper middle social circle, will have definitely overlapped with Birthday lady & they likely knew each other socially anyway, is the obvious choice. I think he was due to legitimately leave the country post a party on the Tues. The police used interpol to question so presumably did so only a bit later on.
Perhaps the person SL DID see on Sun eve was a ‘commercial’ contact though, not so much a love interest. We do know via her uncle this deal to buy the house she couldn’t otherwise afford was troubling her & her business associate was pressurising her. Her unusually good mood on Mon am, pre NH taking commission, she’d assumed was hers, might be because she’d finally adjusted the terms of deal OR pulled out. The police did feel in 86 this house deal was key, vital & they didn’t know about it early on. The last conversation she apparently had with her parents was on this very deal - will post press article.
That last call she took OR made, may have been to tell ‘Kipper’ she couldn’t pay any money owed immediately - no expected commission after all & arranged to meet him briefly & collect items too from pub. Why the urgency to sell her flat? Three failed attempts. Presumably her family knew? She had nowhere to go, did she need the cash fairly urgently?
Conjecture is one thing but we DO know the police asked AS to change what he saw as a meaningless detail poss on timeline. Like the butterfly effect if so, proved to be anything but. Can they check what this was? Will it be noted anywhere?
JD has now computerised all those cards on case. Fantastic. Can someone with good, detailed knowledge of case sit & cross reference with contact book etc? In AS time they had looked at only a fraction of contacts he said. NOT ALL. The police didn’t know about the house deal in golden hour & at time & HR was at least in part spinning yarns by his own admission & the police were under resourced. No one can blame them if they missed a vital lead. Barley said they’d looked at boyfriends where they could - did they go back here though & finish what they’d started with a fine tooth comb? Is SW from QE2 in her contact book?
JD said the BMW jogger witness came forward AT time & reinvestigating all this told police that. He went to a pop up police station in Stevenage Rd. It was missed at time.
‘Sarah’ calling pub & leaving number & message for SL - the message was also ‘lost’ & as JD sees it due to errors & overwhelm this was also possibly legitmately ‘lost’. Is there a clue in contact book? - not necessarily under ‘Sarah’ a wife or girlfriend of the pressurising deal maker perhaps?
The police also presumably know if the contact book was salacious or otherwise. This is important too. It all helps build a better ‘Kipper’ picture. Was there a thread that bound & connected most of the contacts together.
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