Not interested in some continous tit for tat Faith. I am interested in highlighting the actual truth around reason as to why LM became prime suspect, remained as such and subsequently convicted. Deflecting on to others does neither excuse nor explain their actions.
There was no 10 mins there was 35-40 mins that evaporated into air. Leaving around 13mins with not the slightest hint that anything was rushed. Their memory was crystal clear in the copious amounts of description around LM. And without a doubt it was put together the evening beforehand. Cover more later perhaps. But of the following and time and worry:
We have of course covered part of this, that chalk and cheese situation, and we can do so again. CM had told the police that she was trying to get a hold of her son that evening, worried something may have happened to him. He had been walking up an isolated path as darkness fell, on his own but with the benefit of having the family business guard dog and his phone with him. Such was her claimed worry for his safety, that she did not attempt to phone Judith's, the place he was heading to, just him, with no reply to a phone he had in his possession when leaving home.
We go back to just before 7pm and he has called his mother. They claim it was him asking if Jodi had been to the house yet? His mother aware of more that Jodi's here. That this girl had not by that point arrived at the other side of that isolated path. Some 90 mins after her son had left home to go meet with her. CM made no claim of being busy, pre-occupied with anything that made her lose track of time. They further claim that Luke arrived home around 9pm and again asked if Jodi had been to the house. Telling him (claimed) not to worry, she would simply have got caught up "gabbing" somewhere. So we are now well over three hours later. He had not of course arrived home at this time, another conversation fabricated. He arrived home around 10pm, he had not been surpisingly early home from his curfew time, but he had left the boys and should have been home, if going straight there.
So back to the favourite bleat of Judith not worrying about her daughter, and you answer yourself once more. It is early evening, there is absolutely no knowledge of a girl walking any isolated path, this "up here" could have been several places, LM could simply be late, wrong place, anything. But they had been pre-occupied, telling the court that they had lost track of time, that it certainly had not seemed around 3/4 of an hour since Jodi had left. No further call, and believing that the meeting without a doubt had taken place. Spending the evening together, and when late home, the first person to be contacted was LM, showing that her mother fully believed that is who her daughter had spent her evening with. So it is more than plausible, they certainly had given an account of being pre-occupied/busy. But it was in mind in the aftermath, for she did ask LM why he had not called her back, to let her know that Jodi failed to turn up at all, his reply "I thought you had grounded her"
As with LM in his innocence (cough) Is on that road by his account, in what would have transpired to be around 90mins. Idling and twiddling his thumbs, going nowhere near that path. Of a young girl, his girlfriend, not appearing on the other side. Not worried, not concerned, shrugs one shoulders and phones his friends instead. They are late and he phones them back instantly, chasing them up. That is the difference.
I may start another thread around that whopper of a lie, that other favourite piece of blatant disinformation. "they all agreed the dog found Jodi then changed their minds" Where you scream "No one gives a dam what Luke said ------------" Desperately trying to erase his evidence. But they do give a dam, those accounts that screamed at the police - special knowledge from LM.
