She named Macdonald as the killer.
Did Julie name Macdonald as in accusing him (i.e. I think it is Macdonald) or did she repeat what she said she was told?
Repeated what she was told.
Yep, she kept up a charade for a while.
Now she's accused of keeping up a charade for even longer, 25+ years longer.
Yes, she repeated what she was told, alright, but told by whom?
Well certainly not the police, she'd have made things far easier if she named JB.
Well, it might not have been Essex police, but they aren't the only force in the country.
So who do you suggest would instigate her saying this?
No one! I'm not suggesting anyone put that in her mind...though David Shaw does, and what he claims is very interesting.
Shaw claims that a man named Carr who worked for the family had a police officer son who worked for COLP. Shaw questions why officer Carr was fingerprinted when he had never been at the scene of the crime...or had he been there - and why?
Shaw claims that officer Carr had an hour long meeting during which he discussed the case with EP, made 13 points that the extended had asked to be raised and (perhaps later) made notes about the case. Shaw further claims that officer Carr gave his father, the extended family's employee, a report of that meeting.
Shaw's manuscript contains a letter that Shaw claims employee Carr wrote to the extended family about that meeting, the letter includes an offer to give the family officer Carr's notes of the meeting.
Were this letter and officer Carr's long discussion of the case with EP , Shaw asks, where JM obtained sufficiently detailed knowledge of the case to impress Stan Jones and the jury that what she claimed had the ring of truth to it? For despite getting a number of her facts wildly wrong, JM knew certain details which had not been publicised.
