When Jeremy was interviewed in September 1985, Ds Jones told him that the control room clock was always accurate.
At Jeremy's trial, Pc West said that the clock had been inaccurate on very few occasions. Immediately after confirming A/Ps Smith was working on the night in question, PC West was asked "Would you agree with this, that the Control Room wall clock rarely shows an accurate time?" and said he disagreed with that.
Presumably, Mr Rivlin was aware that A/Ps Smith had said the clock rarely showed an accurate time.
Thus, scipio_usmc, you see to be claiming that A/Ps Smith was mistaken, that Ds Jones and Pc West were right about the clock's accuracy, but that Pc West accidentally misread the clock or wrote 0336 by mistake. If that's the case, did Pc West make another mistake in recording 0342 as the time of the check of the WHF line?
A/ps Smith apparently made a claim that in his experience the clock was usually wrong, but did not say how minutes off the clock usually was, in what direction it wa susually off and how he knew it was inaccurate. Others say he was wrong. I have no reason to believe his claims over the others unless he produces a solid basis for how much it is usually off and how he knows this. Not only does credibility hang on specifics like how much off it was usally but that is necessary to attempt to use his claims to demonstrate something.
As I have already stated countless times West was not positive of when he wrote down the time. He could have simply written down the time after the call ended. He is not a 999 operator. He wa sused to basic inquiries. He heard a major tale and was so wrapped up with the substantive details he didn't bother to write the time of the call at first. I also have pointed out that the times on both logs should not match anyway. It had to have taken a couple of minutes at least for Jeremy to tell the story in full answering all questions West had and West recording everything then putting him on hold. Thus the time West called Bonnett, which is what Bonnett recorded, would not be the same as what West was recording because West was recording when his call with Jeremy was received or if he forgot to then when it ended. By definition it should be different than what Bonnett recorded anyway.
A digital clock doesn't show seconds. That is one reason I like analog clocks/watches and use them. It is also why the military does so. A call at 3:23 could be 3:23:59. That alone can cause a variation of up to 59 seconds. A call from 3:23:59 that lasts 3 minutes and 1 second before being put on hold will be considered as lasting until 3:27 so look like an extra minute is tacked on. If the clock West used was fast by 1 minute or 2 that would inflate the length even more. We have no way to know the difference in time between the 2 clocks. I doubt they were the same, most likely they were not the same in terms of seconds and could have even been a couple of minutes off. More than a couple of minutes off would be detected and corrected though. A couple of inutes off doesn't help at all to support your allegations. You are grasping at straws because of bias in favor of Jeremy.
The exact time of the WHF line check doesn't matter. All that matters is that it was checked after getting off the phone with Jeremy in response to Jeremy's call. That fact crushes the allegation you are aking. You don't want to fface this fact and still want to press ahead with your ridiculous claim but it does for the reasons I have stated at least 5 times now:
The police would have no reason to do a line check to test Jeremy's claims if Nevill phoned police after he phoned Jeremy. Calling police AFTER calling Jeremy not only explains why the phone would have been busy it PROVES the phone was used AFTER Jeremy's claim of the line going dead. So a call from Nevill to police refutes the notion that the phone simply sat continuously off the hook after calling Jeremy. They did the line check BECAUSE Jeremy claimed the call was disconnected and then the phone constantly busy. Had Nevill called they would have had no need to do the line check until after police at the scene indicated they could not get in touch with the occupants and wanted to try to phone WHF to try to start negotiations.
You also ridiculously suggest that West would keep Nevill's call a secret from Jeremy and take all of the information he already obtained from Nevill over again from Jeremy in case they wanted to conceal the call to essentially frame Jeremy. That is ludicrous. You can't come up with a rational reaosn for Jeremy not to be told and for West to thus not need to ask Jeremy for the same information again. Police are lazy they don't want to take the same information again if it can be avoided.
The longer you drag this charade out the more you are harming your own credibility and showing just how uch of a Jeremy zealot you are.
