Lets get Lechmere off the hook!

[Herlock Sholmes]

Indeed he could have given himself a cast iron or close to cast iron alibi if he'd adjusted him times to match Paul's.



Sh*t I best cover up these wounds to avoid attracting attention to them, then I'll attract the attention of the first passer-by to my handiwork... Great plan.



Mmmm I've an easy opportunity to make my escape, you go up Hanbury Street, I'll go along Old Montague... cover more ground improve our chances. However I'll go with you so I can find out where you work and make sure I dump a body there next week to implicate you for grassing me to the newspapers, even though as this juncture in time you actually haven't made your report yet.. but you will, I'm sure you will.



He didn't mention someone running off to give the coppers doubt in his guilt... I think this is because he wanted a couple of books, a fakeumentary and dozens of YouTube videos made about him some 130 years later so his Great Great Granddaughter could falsely adopt his birth name and wander around the internet claiming 'Lechmere dunnit' at every opportunity.




Thick as a whale omelette...

And yet there are some that still think this guy was guilty? How has this happened? Why have so many jumped onto this bandwagon? It’s all very strange…you’d think that people were being biased wouldn’t you?

[Geddy2112]

And yet there are some that still think this guy was guilty? How has this happened? Why have so many jumped onto this bandwagon? It’s all very strange…you’d think that people were being biased wouldn’t you?

No just ignorant. I do love the point that he goes with Paul to find out where he works so he can dump a body there the following week because he dobbed him into the papers. Even though at that juncture in time the interview had not happened and the report had not been published. It's called Stow b/s. I wonder at times with tigers, bagels, Nichola Bulley, gravestones and flesh in Doveton St drains he actually, according to my dear mother should put his brain in gear before engaging his mouth...

[scottnapa]

since Paul and Cross walk to work nightly, I would have thought they would have crossed paths many times, yet they do not recognized each other. Curious.

[Fiver]

since Paul and Cross walk to work nightly, I would have thought they would have crossed paths many times, yet they do not recognized each other. Curious.

They weren't headed to the same destination and they didn't leave for work at the same time. If not for Cross spotting a body and slowing down, at best Robert Paul would have seen Cross' back in the distance in poor lighting and Cross couldn't have seen a man walking behind him unless he turned around. Paul also said he was running late, so this wasn't his usual time to walk down Bucks-row. (Cross' testimony makes it unclear if he was running late before he found the body or because he found the body.)

Their routes would never had them approaching each other from opposite directions, so they never would have seen each other's faces.