Originally posted by jimarilyn
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Wasn't that the Edwin Bush case? I think so.
Alphons mother as you say wasn't able to suitably verify his alibi for the time of the murder.
The records were altered as to the time as when Alphon actually returned after initially booking his room. Wasn't a cross put next to guests who had come in late?
Conflicting reports of when this was have still not been satisfactorily resolved.
As to when Alphon first appeared at the Vienna would be just before midday. He abandoned the car at Redbridge some time mid morning (remember that the Redbridge witnesses saw the wrong car), travelled across London in a right old state (covered by his favourite mac) and went straight to the Vienna to pack up and ship out, but just being seen by a member of the hotel staff in a dishevelled state with black gloves on top of his suitcase.
Also weren't there grounds put forward by the appellant in the appeal (2002) that the police had altered the Vienna register? This was quickly abated by the judges who declared that Alphon had no involvement because of the DNA evidence. Convenient or what?
Regarding the cartridge cases found at the Vienna and from the Appeal Court Ruling (2002, para 167)
They were, after all, found at a time before James Hanratty had entered the frame of possible suspects but when Alphon, according to the message recorded on the log of 6 September, appeared to have an alibi and so was about to leave it.
Identification was both unreliable yet important to the prosecution then as is DNA evidence today.
All very perplexing!
Take care James
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