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

[WestLondoner]

From the Sunday Express, January 17th 1988

Despite the relative ambiguity of the article, it's clear it relates to John Cannan's drive to the disused barracks.




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Interesting that this hit the press before Cannan killed SB and was still at large. Another chance to have reeled him in lost....

 

[RichardKimble]

JC came up with an elaborate, conspiracy theory around ‘Hodgeson/Hodgkinson’ mysteriously mini seller & we have to wonder why JC wanted a tatty, broken rust bucket at all (?) He’d also asked about Bristol car auction venues before his questioning in police station. He knew nothing of logistics, location & whole story full of holes. He also didn’t attend auction - if true - very unlikely - with enough money to buy anything really but all sorts of excuses of course.

Going back to the mini was the paint job a amateur hand paint or even spray paint, is it known?

 

[Klclevi]

at 14.38 it says it was painted by hand- it has brushstrokes on it.

This is on You Tube (Crimewatch file - The Shirley Banks Murder)

its very good.

 

[Klclevi]

Yes. Barley on the True Criminals podcast talking of Suzy having had a ‘clandestine’ meeting with someone on the Sunday evening ties up some of the loose ends, for me. Evidently, there’s a gap in the timeline. I suspect her nearest and dearest had their own theories as to where she’d been and with whom, Diana (rightly or wrongly) likely felt that this would’ve reflected poorly on Suzy, hence a story was possibly concocted that Suzy spent a considerable period of time at her flat with the lodger NB, and that her belongings were lost at the pub on the Friday after having had dinner at the restaurant next door, rather than on the Sunday.

Why AL later said the belongings were stolen from the pub, I’ve no idea. Got a little carried away, perhaps? I think he was being truthful when he told DV that actually, he and Suzy never went to the Prince of Wales. The relief landlord was fairly clear in his conversations with DV that it was he who found the belongings, and that he found them on the Sunday evening. NB was coy with DV at times but he was also talkative at others (eg being quite critical of police, ‘keystone cops’, etc), which makes me think he knows a lot more than he let on. I suspect most of the key characters in this story know a bit more, actually, but we can’t really blame them for being coy, especially when confronted by an ex-cop like DV, @Konstantin covers this well in an earlier post I think.

It is really odd.

This old documentary from 2002 has an interview with AL (starts at 16.45) and then he is on again at 17.45)- am sure most of you have seen it before.

He actually also says some other items also went missing (but does not say what) He also does not mention Mossops or the POW specifically but we know it was Mossops from his DV interview. Assume it was next to POW in its day.

I would also really love to know if AL spent the night in Disraeli Rd on that Friday night or she has sent him on his way back to his flat.

How does he forget he gave this interview 24 years ago? It is freely available on You Tube. (The Man who killed Suzy Lamplugh?)

I get he was probably put off by DV on the day of the interview hence his emotional response, I have to think that maybe he has come to know alot more over the years that he ever knew initially and that came out in his outburst that day. Maybe he is trying to say something without saying anything? Just thoughts

 

[Klclevi]

I am puzzled by these NDAs. Nobody can make you sign one. I have signed them at work as a condition of seeing confidential information: we'll let you see this if you first agree not to disclose it. So I signed because I wanted to see it. What were DL/PL offering in return for an NDA? Doesn't the request prove that the subject matter not to be disclosed is true?

Correct.
I have seen them alot in HR situations along with substantial payoffs. Still makes me ill to this day.

 

[kes1972]

Very true. Surely you pay a visit to the pub after it reopens before calling police, though? MG supposedly couldn’t search inside 37SR due to lack of keys yet apparently visited twice, presumably on the off chance of seeing her outside, seeing her car in the street, etc. No one thought to do the same at the Prince of Wales? Even a closed pub will open its doors if you bang on them.

DV’s research seemed to show that even police themselves weren’t entirely sure how the pub came up on their radar. It may or may not be pertinent to the case, ultimately. But it does seem like a peculiar loose end, to me.

There has to be an answer for this big question, we are basically wasting our time without the relevant information and important at that.

If she indeed went out post parents & lied about who she was seeing to AL (Barley) there’s a small window for call at 10:15pm if received at flat. (?)

It’s interesting to have this ‘going out later’ rumour seemingly confirmed as suspicion always there.

with the going out later rumour, who is confirming this happened?