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Skewering The Stupid Scam.
We all know that the alleged Mizen Scam is arrant nonsense which can’t be believed by anyone remotely sensible. The closer you look at it the more obvious this becomes. The suggestion, if anyone isn’t aware, is that Cross could afford to stand around waiting for a stranger to arrive because he had a plan to avoid being detained by a Constable (in possession of a bloodied knife of course) and that plan involved him separating himself off from the stranger and talking to the Constable out of earshot so that he could lie about the woman being alive and that he had been sent by another Constable (in Bucks Row) leaving Mizen to assume that he’d been questioned, searched and sent to find a PC. Meaning that Mizen had no need to detain the two men.
I know…difficult to hear without a chuckle isn’t it?
Cross and Paul approach PC. Mizen. First of all, there are two of them. This doesn’t discount the fact that they might have attacked the woman of course but it makes it less likely. Then of course they have approached Mizen totally of their own volition. Why would two guilty men have done something so stupid when they could easily have walked on unseen and remained completely anonymous? So this would immediately have given Sherlock Mizen little cause for concern. Then of course there was the possibility that Mizen might have taken their names and addresses (the men would have known that Constable’s carried notebooks) So what if Cross had given a real false name for Mizen to take down (as opposed to Cross)? How could he have got to work from then on? Surely the police would have had Constable’s on the street looking for men that came close to his description (from two people) and after finding him they put him in front of Mizen or Cross or both and it’s game over.
This raises a secondary point of course. Surely it can’t be that unlikely that Mizen did indeed take their names and addresses or workplaces?
And if Cross intended to tell Mizen that the woman was still alive why didn’t he begin the deception in Bucks Row? This would have been simplicity itself of course because Paul had ‘fancied’ that he’d felt movement. Cross only needed to have said “I think you might be right old chap.”
The least believable part of this particular piece of fantasy is that, apparently, Cross made the nonsensical and potentially suicidal decision to ‘brazen it out’ (as Christer colourfully imagines it) on the basis that he could safely talk his way past any police officer that they ran into. Clearly this is drivel of the highest order considering that he was with a complete stranger over whom he had zero influence or control. Can anyone, genuinely, hand-on-heart believe that Cross came up with this plan, before deciding to stay put, in the handful of seconds of Paul’s approach. Not a chance. How could someone admit it without embarrassment? From start to finish this whole idea is an act of desperation which betrays a lack of confidence in the silly original suggestion that a serial killer, bloodied knife in hand, wouldn’t have fled into the darkness.
Like most points used to frame this transparently innocent man it crumbles easily. A bit of common sense, a touch of reason, a glance at the evidence and all that’s left is an embarrassing pile and some creative fantasy writing. The only question is….why do they bother? Why do they carry on when it must be obvious to them that they are only making fools of themselves (and sadly, the subject as a whole)?
We all know that the alleged Mizen Scam is arrant nonsense which can’t be believed by anyone remotely sensible. The closer you look at it the more obvious this becomes. The suggestion, if anyone isn’t aware, is that Cross could afford to stand around waiting for a stranger to arrive because he had a plan to avoid being detained by a Constable (in possession of a bloodied knife of course) and that plan involved him separating himself off from the stranger and talking to the Constable out of earshot so that he could lie about the woman being alive and that he had been sent by another Constable (in Bucks Row) leaving Mizen to assume that he’d been questioned, searched and sent to find a PC. Meaning that Mizen had no need to detain the two men.
I know…difficult to hear without a chuckle isn’t it?
Cross and Paul approach PC. Mizen. First of all, there are two of them. This doesn’t discount the fact that they might have attacked the woman of course but it makes it less likely. Then of course they have approached Mizen totally of their own volition. Why would two guilty men have done something so stupid when they could easily have walked on unseen and remained completely anonymous? So this would immediately have given Sherlock Mizen little cause for concern. Then of course there was the possibility that Mizen might have taken their names and addresses (the men would have known that Constable’s carried notebooks) So what if Cross had given a real false name for Mizen to take down (as opposed to Cross)? How could he have got to work from then on? Surely the police would have had Constable’s on the street looking for men that came close to his description (from two people) and after finding him they put him in front of Mizen or Cross or both and it’s game over.
This raises a secondary point of course. Surely it can’t be that unlikely that Mizen did indeed take their names and addresses or workplaces?
And if Cross intended to tell Mizen that the woman was still alive why didn’t he begin the deception in Bucks Row? This would have been simplicity itself of course because Paul had ‘fancied’ that he’d felt movement. Cross only needed to have said “I think you might be right old chap.”
The least believable part of this particular piece of fantasy is that, apparently, Cross made the nonsensical and potentially suicidal decision to ‘brazen it out’ (as Christer colourfully imagines it) on the basis that he could safely talk his way past any police officer that they ran into. Clearly this is drivel of the highest order considering that he was with a complete stranger over whom he had zero influence or control. Can anyone, genuinely, hand-on-heart believe that Cross came up with this plan, before deciding to stay put, in the handful of seconds of Paul’s approach. Not a chance. How could someone admit it without embarrassment? From start to finish this whole idea is an act of desperation which betrays a lack of confidence in the silly original suggestion that a serial killer, bloodied knife in hand, wouldn’t have fled into the darkness.
Like most points used to frame this transparently innocent man it crumbles easily. A bit of common sense, a touch of reason, a glance at the evidence and all that’s left is an embarrassing pile and some creative fantasy writing. The only question is….why do they bother? Why do they carry on when it must be obvious to them that they are only making fools of themselves (and sadly, the subject as a whole)?
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