Thanks I must have missed herShe is there. They went to sidebar right as they went on the record. John's niece and nephew may be testifying today which will not be on camera.
Thanks I must have missed herShe is there. They went to sidebar right as they went on the record. John's niece and nephew may be testifying today which will not be on camera.
This is probably the closest to what happened.I reckon they were having a row, she tipped him out of the car outside the house and drove off, backed up fast because she'd come up with a parting shot and, purely by accident, 'clipped him' (her words not mine) causing him to fall backwards and hit his head. If you remember, Natasha Richardson fell skiing and banged her head, one fall, one knock and she died, sadly it can happen.
I'm sure about this. She was telling the first responders she's hit him, and when she and Jennifer McCabe went back to find him she said 'he was exactly where I expected him to be' (again, her words not mine). I'm very sorry for her, I don't believe for a moment she tried to kill him, it was a terrible accident and she should have faced up to it, but she was drunk and muddle headed and only put two and two together as the situation unfolded. Her failure was that having 'clipped him' she didn't go back to see if he was OK because at that point he could well have been saved.
I also don't think Brian Higgins had anything to do with it. In those text messages all I heard was her giving him the come-on and him being cautious and guarded in case she was taking the piss, and him not really believing that she fancied him.
What fascinates me is the arm wounds and the only suggestion I can come up with is that Chloe was put out for a poo, found John on the lawn and attempted to drag him by the arm. Problem with that is the complete lack of Chloe's DNA or hair on John's clothes. Was there any debris on the ground which could have caused those deep scratches?
He was laying on his phone, as can be told by the phone battery temperature records, was he laying on his arm or was it out to the side? Could the snow plough have caused him any hurt (in addition to scattering bits of tail light)? If the snow was so deep it needed ploughing I think it's extremely likely that the body would have been hidden and only looked like banked up snow at that point so I'm not surprised the driver didn't see him.
After working in the NHS from 1991 onwards, you'd be surprised at how many surgeon's have been close to manslaughter charges and have got away with it because the NHS trust backed them upThis is probably the closest to what happened.
Occams Razor definitely comes into play and the shortest amount of assumptions is more than likely the truth.
It’s similar in a sense to the Lucy Letby case - either *everyone* else is lying, or one person is.
But did they collude with multiple other people to pin the blame on someone else? Or just ‘get away with it’?After working in the NHS from 1991 onwards, you'd be surprised at how many surgeon's have been close to manslaughter charges and have got away with it because the NHS trust backed them up![]()
ARCCA also gave new information at a very late stage.It’s because the current timeline breaks their case so it needs to be realigned to fit Whiffin… if the shoe were on the other foot this would be an instant no.
Hank screwed himself over today when he asked about “I hit him” and the ME said she knew but still didn’t say he was hit by a car.
But it wasn’t agreed, judge cannone asked him on the stand will you have it ready by then and he said if you order me to, I will. They’re both playing dirty games as I guess that’s what happens in these cases, but I don’t think it’s because one side is ‘losing’. The prosecution have got a much stronger position this time around.Judge Cannone asked them to have the report in for the 7th of May, everyone agreed to that, the report is in and now Hank is complaining about it.
Difference between providing information in an agreed timeline and completely changing the timeline of your case because you’re losing
Which it was ordered and turned in - Hank said they got it on the 7th but hadn’t reviewed it yet which sounds like a him problem.But it wasn’t agreed, judge cannone asked him on the stand will you have it ready by then and he said if you order me to, I will. They’re both playing dirty games as I guess that’s what happens in these cases, but I don’t think it’s because one side is ‘losing’. The prosecution have got a much stronger position this time around.
I don’t understand how anyone can think she’s innocent and such is lifeDid you see Hank slam down his laptop at the end of the day yesterday. He knows the commonwealth are failing miserably and he was so rude with his own witness. I don’t understand how anyone can think she’s guilty of this crime.
The fact that they called that ME makes me think that they'll call Proctor!! How did Hank Brennan think it was going to go, was he expecting her to lie or something?! Good for her for maintaining her integrity.Did you see Hank slam down his laptop at the end of the day yesterday. He knows the commonwealth are failing miserably and he was so rude with his own witness. I don’t understand how anyone can think she’s guilty of this crime.
She said she clipped him: They'd been drinking remember, maybe the contact was mild enough just to make him lose balance, and it was falling backwards and hitting his head that did the damage, that and the hypothermia. Who knows that John was standing up anyway, he could have been tying a shoelace (or bending down getting a stone out of his trainer, hence having that trainer off), picking up something he'd dropped, lord only knows.Which it was ordered and turned in - Hank said they got it on the 7th but hadn’t reviewed it yet which sounds like a him problem.
Prosecution started off on a stronger foot with those clips but as it goes on they become more and more out of context and the medical examiner just destroyed his entire case by saying John wasn’t hit by a car. There’s no coming back from that.