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

[Kasparthecat1]

I don't know much about this aspect other than observing that both husband and wife have clearly gone to great extents to extricate themselves from any information about themselves appearing online in connection with SL. DV makes no mention either despite SL and the wife apparently being friends and partners. I strongly suspect he was warned off the matter as it was such an obvious port of call.

I think it's a back story, ultimately of background relevance only but nonetheless part of explaining SL's personality and behaviour.

JMO a deal with this couple is far more likely. We know PSS drank wine together, seemed to be bezzie mates for a while, some business arrangements were talked of. Iirc it wasn't a particularly lucrative deal for Sjl and if she did go cold on it, perhaps it's understandable. Strange that nothing is said of it by DV; guessing the couple lawyered themselves up pretty heavily. From research carried out on here, TS went bankrupt soon after Sjl's disappearance. . So there's motive, perhaps.

She may have been involved in other deals - given the housing market at the time and contacts she may have had I wouldn't be surprised (jmo) but if so likely something would have revealed itself in the investigation.

 

[Konstantin]

that nothing is said of it by DV

I don't think it's strange tbh. It's a distraction from his main hypothesis/narrative so he didn't mention it.

 

[rvlvr]

I’ve wondered if Diana was alluding to the couple re her musings in the December ‘86 article shared in post #2,127 by LSW a few weeks ago?

As we discussed at the time, the SL Trust was founded on the premise that Suzy “disappeared during the course of her work as an estate agent while showing a client round a house in Fulham.”

That may be what happened.

But Diana’s theory deviates quite markedly from that. Diana had a flair for the dramatic, of course, though what she says in that article is hardly wild.

"I think Suzie has been killed. I think I know why the car was parked in Stevenage Road, but I'd rather not say."

She also believes that Suzie might not have taken a telephone call from "Mr Kipper," even though the diary entry is clearly made in her handwriting.

"She could have been told to enter it," says Mrs Lamplugh.

Police confirm that there is no evidence that Suzie took such a call.

Suzie is assumed to have left her office to go to her white Fiesta, but Mrs. Lamplugh believes she never drove it.

She says: "I think someone could have been waiting for her, or followed her when she left her office.

"When the car was found, the driver's seat was pushed back. I think it was like that because someone else, with longer legs than Suzie, had driven it.

"And when the car reached Stevenage Road an accomplice could have been waiting there to drive this person away."

 

[kes1972]

What are his strong links to the Fulham area?

Exactly, he must have had thrm to have tun to pubs there, otherwise he would have ran a pub where he came from