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[The Baron]

Accusing Lechmere of the Buck's Row murder is no better or worse than accusing Anne or Mike Barrett of putting a 'bumbling buffoon' in the diary. Without evidence both are exercises in futility.

Why couldn't the murder have been committed by someone else, before Charles 'Cross' alerted Robert Paul?

Why couldn't the diary have been written by someone else, before Mike 'Williams' alerted Doreen Montgomery?

Did Lechmere confess he killed Nicholes?!


The Baron

[rjpalmer]

Did Lechmere confess he killed Nicholes?!


The Baron

Did Lechmere's wife suddenly reveal herself a year or two later, and run around telling a string of verifiable contradictions, claiming she had been in Buck's Row ten minutes before Lechmere and the body was already there?

If so, I'd tend to worry about Charlie and Charlie's wife.

[Iconoclast]

Did Lechmere confess he killed Nicholes?!
The Baron

You are absolutely correct. Lechmere did not confess to this, no.

And nor did Mike Barrett confess to creating the scrapbook text.

What Mike Barrett did was claim to have created the scrapbook text.

To be clear, there is no evidence whatsoever that Mike (or Anne) Barrett had anything at all to do with the creation of the scrapbook text and his attempt to purchase a Victorian diary in March 1992 is certainly not evidence of it despite lord Orsam's claims to the contrary so we mustn't say 'confessed', we must say 'claimed', thank you.

Ike