Another dose of reality - 16mins from start to finish, a series of events acted out by Mitchell.
This 16mins is split into two periods of in and around 8mins each. That first period starts from just after 10:50pm when he was speaking with Jodi's mother on the phone, in under 10mins from telling her had not seen Jodi he had instantly initiated an actual physical search, one directly to the path (Roansdyke Path). By 10:59pm, when speaking with Jodi's mother again, he tells her he is on/at the path. Yet he was also to claim of having a debate with his mother, of having to borrow a torch from his brother. SM he said was upstairs, that he in turn had to locate a torch from somewhere downstairs, to be out that door and on that path. The walk alone, the normal route, around 7mins. In and around 8mins he had achieved all of this. We can leave SM not being home at this point, it is also highly unlikely that Mitchell himself was home either.
10.49….Phone with Judith
10.59…..Phonecall with Judith.
10 minutes.
Further the obtaining of a torch, preparing the dog for a walk etc could be done while he was talking to Judith on the phone or having a discussion with his mum….multitasking I think it’s called. You can get a lot done in 3 minutes. 7 minutes run to the entrance to RDP. Wasn’t it you yourself who said that Luke could have washed in a burn, be seen by Walsh and Fleming, run back home through thick foliage to change clothes and be back on the Newbattle Road to be seen by Andrew Holborn in 10 minutes or is Luke only superman when it suits?
I’ll reply to the second part of your post later.
