Originally posted by jimarilyn
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Is this just he first alibi given or any and all? I can imagine a situation where someone could keep proposing a new alibi when their last is disproved and indefinitely delay the investigation.
Isn't it very strange that not one person ever came forward to place James Hanratty in the Slough area on 22nd of August 1961, whereas a few people claimed to have either seen Peter Alphon or someone remarkably like him in the area around Dorney Common that Tuesday evening ?
What is similarly very strange is the fact that not one person has ever claimed to have seen James Hanratty anywhere in the London (or Slough) area from about 9.30am Tuesday (22nd) until around 8am Friday (25th). Several witnesses however (of good repute) came forward to say they either saw James Hanratty or someone remarkably like him on a London to Liverpool train, in Liverpool and in Rhyl at the critical times.
Even Basil Acott was impressed with Mrs Olive Dinwoodie's (and her granddaughter Barbara's) testimony. So impressed was he in fact that at one point he even suggested the ludicrous possibility that there was an air service connecting Liverpool, London and Dorney, which enabled Hanratty to leg it out of that sweet shop (around 5pm) and head for Speke Airport (about 10 miles away) and then pay for an air ticket to Heathrow and from there somehow make it to Dorney Reach for around 9.30pm.
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