Hi Steve,
I've read most of the available books on the A6 Case, but even after all these years I still can't get my head around many of the almost-unbelievable coincidences with which this case is peppered. You couldn't make it up!
Regarding PLA, I think that he had a genuine pants-filling fright when he was named as a suspect - far from being Woffinden's 'manipulator', I think PLA was scared stiff, and remained so until Valerie Storey failed to identify him at the first ID parade. He must've breathed a massive sigh of relief. Once he reckoned he was in the clear, I believe he went all-out to exact revenge and make a profit, an exercise that he continued for years after JH's execution. He was fuelled by Jean Justice (whose motives for getting involved in the first place were not exactly altruistic) and also by the comparative ease with which he found he could make money out of the A6 Case. It's known that he successfully sued the police and at least one newspaper, and without any shadow of doubt he sold his story to other newspapers. When he released his bank-account details (as Miller rightly points out, only after sufficient time had elapsed for his bank to destroy any cheques made out to him) it was seen that not only had he made a small fortune, he had pretty quickly got rid if it, too. Which is absolutely typical PLA - feast or famine, live for the day.
PLA was also a superb actor, as anyone who's seen the filmed BBC interview in Paris will know. He took the interviewer for a ride. I wonder how much PLA was paid for that interview - can't see him doing it for free.
Cheers,
Graham
I've read most of the available books on the A6 Case, but even after all these years I still can't get my head around many of the almost-unbelievable coincidences with which this case is peppered. You couldn't make it up!
Regarding PLA, I think that he had a genuine pants-filling fright when he was named as a suspect - far from being Woffinden's 'manipulator', I think PLA was scared stiff, and remained so until Valerie Storey failed to identify him at the first ID parade. He must've breathed a massive sigh of relief. Once he reckoned he was in the clear, I believe he went all-out to exact revenge and make a profit, an exercise that he continued for years after JH's execution. He was fuelled by Jean Justice (whose motives for getting involved in the first place were not exactly altruistic) and also by the comparative ease with which he found he could make money out of the A6 Case. It's known that he successfully sued the police and at least one newspaper, and without any shadow of doubt he sold his story to other newspapers. When he released his bank-account details (as Miller rightly points out, only after sufficient time had elapsed for his bank to destroy any cheques made out to him) it was seen that not only had he made a small fortune, he had pretty quickly got rid if it, too. Which is absolutely typical PLA - feast or famine, live for the day.
PLA was also a superb actor, as anyone who's seen the filmed BBC interview in Paris will know. He took the interviewer for a ride. I wonder how much PLA was paid for that interview - can't see him doing it for free.
Cheers,
Graham
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