Originally posted by Monty
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I think the police at the time had to accpet it as being correct but perhaps off the record didnt totally accpet it as being correct but having regard to the feelings that were running high in the community could not go public and say that they didnt belive him.
However all these years later us as researches are able to question his statement andhis reasons and motives and having assessesd and evaluated everything are entitled to accept it or reject it in total or in part.
I for one have grave concerns about the content of the statement for me it is to accurate. He decsribes colours of eyelashes and colour of stones in pendants and other colours as set out in the statement. I have carried out my own tests under similar lighting conditions to try to establish if it were possible to distinguish specific colours on simliar items under specific lighting conditions. The results of my tests show that it is not possible.
Having said all of that he could have genuinley been there and when giving his statement could have been trying to be to helpful a practice a lot witnesses are prone to do.
As to why he didnt come forward sooner you can argue on this till hell freezes over. The argument to suggest that he didnt want to be thought of as perhaps the killer simply is a non starter. Whether he came forward 5 hours or 45 hours after the event would still as likely as not could have made the police think he was the killer.
However he did come forward but by the time he did he would probabaly have known that the police did not have any witnesses in the case so therefore whatever he said he knew could not be disproved.
Of course on the other side of that having come forward and given perhaps a false statement he was then open for someone to come forward with a statement putting him somewhere else at the time he says he was in Millers Court.
Another question would be that if the killer was the one seen with Kelly would he have carried out a murder knowing that someone was standing nearby and may have heard screams etc. All of this is not consistent with the previous murders. So that may suggest if that were the killer then he may have not been the same killer who killed the other victims.
The Kelly murder is one that throws up more questions than answers.
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