Sorry, I got back much later than intended, so I'll do this in stages tonight and tomorrow.
Prosecution Timeline:
4:50 Jodi leaves the house to meet Luke.
Previously 5.30 and 5.05 respectively. The police reconstruction exactly a week later had the Jodi lookalike leaving her mother's house at "a few minutes after 5" to place her on the Easthouses road at 5.05 to coincide with the "stocky man" sighting.
4:49 - 4:54 Adrina Bryson witnesses a couple at Jodi's end of the path.
This is the timeframe in which it was claimed AB could have been driving past the entrance to the path. According to the prosecution, Jodi didn't leave home until 4,50, so the AB sighting couldn't have been 4.49. It takes 2 mins 40 seconds to walk from Jodi's house to the entrance to the path, so AB's sighting couldn't have been before 4:52:40, so the actual window for this sighting is 1 minute and 20 seconds - 4.52.40 - 4.54 (using the prosecution and police timings.)
5:00 John Farris and Gordon Dickie are on and around the path and the gap in the wall. They do not see Luke or Jodi.
5:00 - 5.15 - and John Ferris
5:40 Luke phones Jodi's home and discovers she has left.
5.32, Luke calls Jodi's home, but the call does not connect (engaged or unanswered). 5.40 he calls again and is told she has left.
5:40 - 5:55 Lorraine Fleming and Rosmary Walsh witness Luke hanging around near the path.
Originally almost 6pm - no earlier time possible because of people's finishing times at work. Original sighting claimed to be at Newbattle Abbey College entrance, not "close to the path." Police timings place the walk to Newbattle entrance to the path from the end of Luke's street (directly opposite the entrance to Newbattle Abbey College) at 5 minutes, at a "brisk" pace - that's a police "brisk" pace, not a civilian one.
5:55 - 6pm A group of teenagers (Holbourn, Houston, Elliot) witness Luke on a road near the path entrance.
At the end of his street, directly opposite the entrance to Newbattle Abbey College - see above.
6:05 Carol Heattie witnesses Luke hanging around near a driveway.
The entrance to Barondale Cottages, a few yards from the end of his street/the entrance to Newbattle Abbey College. She sees "a youth" - she does not know Luke
6:32 Luke phones David High to meet up.
6:30 - 7:30 Mrs Frankland smells a fire.
There was a second call between Luke and David High - don't have the time or direction of the call to hand - will come back to you on this - Luke had wandered into the Abbey grounds, from memory, one called the other saying "where are you" because the meeting point was an area where there was a bridge, but there were, in fact two bridges. (Having since checked out the area, there are several bridges, so I can only assume that Luke and David each knew of "a" bridge, and initially assumed each other was talking about the same bridge.)
Mrs Frankland said she smelled "woodsmoke."
7:05 Luke meets David High in the woods.
9:00 Franklands both smell a fire.
Mrs Frankland said she smelled smoke around 6.30 - 7pm, because she had been out feeding the rabbit, and again later - she thought it was around 9 o'clock. Mr Frankland didn't initially mention having smelled smoke himself at 9 o'clock- he later said his wife had mentioned smelling smoke sometime after 9 o'clock - later still, he said he saw Luke passing the window, must have been around 10 o'clock, and somehow, his recollection of smelling smoke
himself is timed at just a few minutes before he sees Luke - around 10pm.
10:00 George Ramage smells a fire.
No time originally claimed for this other than "late evening" - he had been doing some DIY and was putting the tools away when he smelled "funny smelling smoke." Specific time coincides with Mr Frankland's almost 10'oclock smelling of smoke (see above).
10:00 The Frankland neighbours see Luke.
Mr Frankland claims to have seen Luke. No statement from Mrs Frankland supporting Mr Frankland's claim of a conversation between them as Luke passed the window.
10:40 Judith Jones texts Luke's phone.
10.38 - Judith texts Luke. 10:40 Luke calls back - second try, call did not connect first time. Appeal documents have Luke's call back timed at 10.41 - I don't know where the extra minute came from - the phone logs show 10.40.
11:00 Jodi's sister, her fiancé and grandmother set out searching for Jodi.
11.09, Search trio leave Alice's house (according to official timings).
So the path that this all centres around runs between where Luke and Jodi lived. How long a walk is it from Jodi's to the path and Luke's to the path? And roughly how long would it take one to walk the length of the path; I've seen statements of between 15-30 minutes.
What are the areas at each end called? I have Jodi's end as Newbattle in my head?
Jodi lived at the Easthouses end of the path, Luke at the Newbattle end. Official police timings - the end of Luke's street to the Newbattle entrance to the path - 5 mins at a brisk pace. The path itself, 11 mins at a brisk pace. No timings from the end of the path to the entrance to the path (this was a track through wasteland)- having walked it, I'd say 2 - 3 mins normal pace, entrance to the path to Jodi's house 2 mins 40 seconds. (For completion, Luke's house to the end of his street where official police timings began) 2 mins.
So, path itself, 11 mins at a police "brisk pace." Luke's house to Jodi's house approximately 24 minutes at a march. Normal walking speed would make that a fair bit longer. I walked from the entrance to the path with someone Alice Walker's age, for example, and it took a fraction under 20 minutes for us to reach the V break, which is just over halfway down the path - even allowing the police "brisk pace" for the remainder of the journey to Luke's house, it would still have taken another 12.5 minutes to reach Luke's house.
