Originally posted by Kattrup
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There was an article in the Sunday Times on 3rd July 1994, which mentions a ten day event, but it's not the eleven day event proposed by Lord O, which he based - very loosely - on Mike's January 1995 affidavit.
The ten days referred to in the ST article were when Mike was supposedly tapping out Maybrick's "confession" on his word processor, at some unknown point between 1990 and 1992. Anne is not mentioned.
Lord O's interpretation was that Anne spent eleven days in early April 1992, handwriting Mike's previously tapped out composition into the photo album.
So that would be two separate tasks, the first taking Mike ten days to perform, while Anne took a day longer to perform hers.
My own interpretation is that Mike was describing the same event in a different way and on a different occasion, twisting it out of true on each, to suit what he was trying to claim at the time.
This almost certainly was Anne, who spent ten or eleven days tapping out the diary text on the word processor, with Mike's 'help', and witnessed by young Caroline, to create the transcript that was given to Rupert Crew.
Interestingly, the same article claims that stains and a glue-like substance in the binding 'betrayed' its previous existence as a photo album, yet as I previously pointed out, Alec Voller observed the glue-like staining in 1995 and indicated a dot of the diary ink which is beneath the glue.
Also, the article singles out "top myself" as a 20th century expression, but this has recently been found by our own Gary Barnett – meaning to "hang myself" - in a newspaper article from the 1870s.
So I'm afraid the article from July 1994 was spreading misinformation, if unknowingly at the time. However, we know this now, so it ought not to be used as a reliable source in 2020.
Love,
Caz
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