One small but I feel significant question arises.....if those who consider Hanratty innocent, and that Alphon had nothing to do with the A6 Case, then can one of them perhaps suggest who they think actually did it? I've asked this same question quite a few times over the years I've been on these boards, and answer there has been none.
Someone, and I'm sorry but I can't remember who, said on this forum years ago that there have been no death-bed confessions, no anonymous letters to newspapers, no darkened-out televised interviews, no nothing. Not a single whisper from some dying East End lowlife who croaked that 'he knew Jim didn't do it, because', etc., etc.
I know for a fact that at least one Hanratty supporter expected there to be a last letter from Alphon confessing to the crime - but even if there was, who would have believed the lying sod? Now, there are probably those who await publication of a final letter from Valerie Storie admitting that her evidence was fabricated....
I am certain that Acott & Co very seriously and studiously interviewed known members of the criminal fraternity and also non-criminals who might have 'helped in their inquiries', but if they actually learned anything from such interviews, then nothing so far as I know has been made public. We do know, though, that Alphon was not the first person to have been interviewed regarding the A6, but I doubt if we will ever know the identities of other interviewees, 55 years later.
Graham
Someone, and I'm sorry but I can't remember who, said on this forum years ago that there have been no death-bed confessions, no anonymous letters to newspapers, no darkened-out televised interviews, no nothing. Not a single whisper from some dying East End lowlife who croaked that 'he knew Jim didn't do it, because', etc., etc.
I know for a fact that at least one Hanratty supporter expected there to be a last letter from Alphon confessing to the crime - but even if there was, who would have believed the lying sod? Now, there are probably those who await publication of a final letter from Valerie Storie admitting that her evidence was fabricated....
I am certain that Acott & Co very seriously and studiously interviewed known members of the criminal fraternity and also non-criminals who might have 'helped in their inquiries', but if they actually learned anything from such interviews, then nothing so far as I know has been made public. We do know, though, that Alphon was not the first person to have been interviewed regarding the A6, but I doubt if we will ever know the identities of other interviewees, 55 years later.
Graham
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