Griffiths says, "He couldn't run away, having realized there was someone else in the street" with the narrator adding "....given the heavy police presence and lack of easy escape route, Lechmere had no choice but to cover his tracks and try to bluff things out."
You would think that people were tripping over police officers. This was the earliest stage of the murders was there really a big increase in police numbers?
Paul was 40 yards away, in the dark. If Lechmere had walked on, by the time that Paul arrived at the body (if he didn’t simply walk straight passed it) Lechmere would have been up near the end of Buck’s Row. Even if Paul had stood there yelling for a police officer there’s no way that a fellow police officer in the next street or the next but one would be stopping random people in the street on the off chance that they were connected to whatever had occurred in Buck’s Row.
Lechmere did have a choice. A very simple one.
a) Call over a complete stranger whilst he might very well have had blood on his hands or clothing and he would definately have had the bloodied knife on him. Risking as he would have been a confrontation with a police officer.
or
b) Walk away in the dark to safety.
Its that simple. Griffiths is wrong and obviously so I’m afraid.
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