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During 1984, when the kitchens had been installed at the pub and the billiard room converted to a dining room, the raised ‘stage’ section installed for diners had created a cavernous void consisting of several thousand cubic feet of empty space underneath. But in good old British navvy style, the builders had emptied rubble, rubbish and refuse from the building works into the void before sealing it with floorboards and finishing it with ceramic tiles on top. The Harp can was among the rubbish put underneath the floor.
In 2007, during a purely cosmetic makeover, the stage area had been lowered from above, and the floor put back to its original height, before being tiled over again. But the pile of rubbish remained untouched beneath the floor; the now vintage Harp can and the odd-shaped pile of rubbish left undisturbed.
‘So you’re saying that we need to look underneath that pile of rubbish because it’s about the right age and it’s been undisturbed since the 1980s?’
‘I’m saying it’s a very solid, viable line of enquiry considering we have evidence that Suzy might have been going to the pub the afternoon she went missing, yes. When we consider that there was a huge space under that floor in 1986, that it was easily accessed, that Michael had problems with blowflies down there on a couple of occasions, and that there’s an odd-shaped pile of rubbish and the right vintage of Harp can in there, one that wasn’t sold at the pub – it makes me very suspicious of what’s underneath.’
From DV - so I misremembered the date. But the fact is that the whole floor came up in order to be refitted lower down, I suppose to make more headroom. It seems impossible for a body to have been under that floor and not noticed when that was done. He calls this "a purely cosmetic makeover" but dismantling a floor and refitting it doesn't sound cosmetic to me. The fact they had to retile it suggests it was dismantled - that there is no clever way to have dropped it in one piece.
In 2007, during a purely cosmetic makeover, the stage area had been lowered from above, and the floor put back to its original height, before being tiled over again. But the pile of rubbish remained untouched beneath the floor; the now vintage Harp can and the odd-shaped pile of rubbish left undisturbed.
‘So you’re saying that we need to look underneath that pile of rubbish because it’s about the right age and it’s been undisturbed since the 1980s?’
‘I’m saying it’s a very solid, viable line of enquiry considering we have evidence that Suzy might have been going to the pub the afternoon she went missing, yes. When we consider that there was a huge space under that floor in 1986, that it was easily accessed, that Michael had problems with blowflies down there on a couple of occasions, and that there’s an odd-shaped pile of rubbish and the right vintage of Harp can in there, one that wasn’t sold at the pub – it makes me very suspicious of what’s underneath.’
From DV - so I misremembered the date. But the fact is that the whole floor came up in order to be refitted lower down, I suppose to make more headroom. It seems impossible for a body to have been under that floor and not noticed when that was done. He calls this "a purely cosmetic makeover" but dismantling a floor and refitting it doesn't sound cosmetic to me. The fact they had to retile it suggests it was dismantled - that there is no clever way to have dropped it in one piece.
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