Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes
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Secondly, why do we appear to treat Smith as an absolutely unchallengeable witness? Policemen have been wrong before. Whilst I accept that it’s very likely that he did see Stride it can’t be impossible that at 12.30 at night in a poorly lit street with Smith thinking that his wife was at home in their warm bed and he was trudging around the backstreets that he saw a woman of similar build and dress. He then saw the body and convinced himself that it was the same woman. Who knows?
As for me supposedly treating Smith as absolutely unchallengeable, try the following...
Originally posted by NotBlamedForNothing
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Thirdly, can we be sure that Stride was standing in the gateway? Busman was between Schwartz and Stride so he may have assumed that she was standing there because that’s where BSMan halted. Sp perhaps Stride wasn’t standing there; perhaps she was walking north on Berner Street? I made a suggestion that she may have been avoiding BSMan after being seen with him by Marshall so she ducked into the gateway hoping that he hadn’t seen her. But he had. Hence the pulling.
Someone leaving the scene and returning a little later isn’t mysterious or unlikely. It’s normal, everyday behaviour.
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