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Old 25-02-2019, 01:01
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Originally Posted by hummingbird View Post
There was a lot of rubbish in the car when it was found .... food wrappers and such? Could have also had someone else's bridge ticket picked up of the floor at the service station. Do they have CCTV to go with the time?
The bridge ticket was found at his flat. But had there been CCTV it wouldn't have told them anything cept he was on his way to his flat Mind, had they clocked him on some it would have cleared up the mistake over the time wouldn't it? I don't think the police even looked at what footage there was from the bridge for 2 years did they? And when they did there was nothing though the quality was very poor anyway. Maybe that's why they hadn't bothered before but even so it sounds like they were half hearted in their attempts to locate him or would certainly have given that impression

More broadly if SHR was asking for other tickets during the time she was writing the book it could just have been because they'd been wondering about the time format and wanted to cross check it with a few different tickets. However it came about it was ultimately confirmed to have been based on a 24 hour clock by the manufacturer wasn't it?

So far, the ticket seems to be the only genuine bit of thought to have gone into the book

Along with the Escape doc mentioned there's an old interview in Q magazine in which Martin Hall talks about taking a call from James to say he couldn't get any answer from Richey's room so Hall had come to the hotel and asked for the door to be opened then sat in there for a while hoping he'd maybe show up there....before he started making calls to see if anyone had heard from him and I think the management company were given access to his personal contacts so they could try everyone who may possibly have heard or seen sight of him. The only thing I can imply is that the fact James went on to the US as scheduled meant that whilst there was of course concern from the moment James couldn't get a reply there wasn't real anxiety until it became apparent no one had heard from him and after 24 hours a missing persons report was filed as is absolutely what should be done in such circumstances. Yet the book seems to imply that there's an Agatha Christie mystery surrounding who was at the hotel, when, who entered the room first, when, who is 'Vivian' only once briefly alluded to in 23 years, never again asked about and now apparently the subject of amnesia on the part of the band and missing from all known records..as if it's a potential bloody crime scene .....Sure it serves a purpose to make it a talking point, imply there is still scope for an investigation to not be just left on the back burner but it's also very disingenuous
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