Originally posted by Jon Guy
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I don't agree that the Police Report can be easily reconciled with the Star article. You argue that the Police Report's reference to "footway" implies that she was pushed into the passageway. I don't see this and Begg, 2004, p157 clearly concludes that "footway" refers to the pavement outside of the gates.
In any event, footway clearly cannot refer to some distance inside the gate, i.e. where Stride's body was found.
If, therefore, you are to argue that Stride retained the cachous in her hand from the time of the initial assault witnessed by Scwartz, which is unsupported by Scwartz's evidence, as he makes no mention of the cachous, up to time of her death, then this would mean that she would have to have clung on to them during the initial attack, during the period that BS man saw off Pipeman and Schwartz, during a second, and surely far more violent, assault which would presumably involve her being dragged or forced some distance into the yard, and during the period when she was forced to the ground and her throat cut. None of this seems very likely to me.
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