This is flawed in so many way:
Why on earth at this point would the police include stocky man and the male/female at the entrance?
The construction was done to show Jodi's assumed movements,
those of walking along this road and into entrance that leads to where she was murdered.
This is at a point in the investigation where they are looking for further witnesses.
They have at this point neither confirmed the timings by AB or the girl with a male walking in the
same direction.
Jodi's assumed movements - i.e. she left her house, walked down the Easthouses Road (being seen by two witnesses) and was seen at the entrance to the path speaking with a male -
according to information in the police files.Why on earth would they
not include them? Media reports at the time (including an interview from a senior officer in the case) said the reconstruction was to try to "jog people's memories" about "anything they may have seen that could assist the investigation." How can people assist if they're given a false scenario to begin with?
To which "girl and a male walking in the same direction" do you refer?
This 15mins too late - really?
They are shown an approx. time going on the information they have gathered.
What does the request actually say in this reconstruction?
It does not ask that anyone who was in the vicinity at EXACTLY the time of
reconstruction, to the exact minute, does it?
It clearly asks, for people to jog their memories, if being in this location, AROUND said time, if they
may have seen this girl.
What? It is 15 minutes too late by the police and prosecution's own reasoning that Jodi left at 4.50pm. It doesn't ask for the "exact" time" - you make my point for me. People who passed before 5pm or after 5.15pm would automatically assume they had nothing of interest to tell the police - anything they saw (according to the reconstruction) at those times would not assist the enquiry because any person they saw could not have been Jodi, by the same reasoning.
Did the reconstruction even get under way, at the exact time planned -
One would imagine here that this is no easy set up.
There would be road closures.
Setting up of equipment.
Film location in brief.
So many factors that could put the planned timing out.
Why does that matter? If police were sure Jodi left at 4.50, they would have blocked the Easthouses Road and set up roadblocks in time to film the reconstruction at 4.50pm. How do I know that? Because they did exactly that to film the reconstruction at just after 5pm and encouraged media footage stating that Jodi left her home just after 5pm.
The fact remains, the reconstruction went out telling people Jodi left her home just after 5pm and was on the Easthouses Road by 5.05pm, whatever the "planned" timing may or may not have been.
The point you make here is, to me, ludicrous. Think about it. "We know thebank was robbed at exactly 3.45pm and two men brandishing guns ran into the street where a brown getaway car was waiting. Unfortunately, we couldn't set up the filming on time, so we'll just tell people the robbery happened at 4pm - won't make any difference, will it?"
Also, do you not state in your book about a man following Jodi into this path, this man, being one who was also on the path?
Or did the person who copied these extracts, get it wrong?
No, I did not. I have never claimed Stocky Man "followed Jodi into the path" - I've always taken the stance that no-one, ever, saw Jodi walk into the entrance to the path, so how could possibly have said what you claim here? However, Stocky Man should also have been included in the reconstruction as his presence at 5.05pm, on the Easthouses Road, behind Jodi, was confirmed by 2 witnesses.
