Or liability! I have no allegiance to any of these people.
As it stands I think there's a lot more to this case than meets the eye and I'm more inclined to see Steele/Whomes innocent.
I know I keep repeating it but I just don't understand the emphasis on Whomes' mobile calls at 18.59. We know cells/masts are situated all over the country. Whomes was in the vicinity of Rettendon therefore his calls were routed through masts at Ingatestone and Hockley. Which masts were Nicholls calls received on? I would like to see mast data for every call on all the relevant mobiles throughout the day to plot movements.
If Tate was at Rettendon at 18.44 when he received his call from Sarah Saunders which mast was this call routed through? If it wasn't Ingatestone or Hockley then this totally destroys the prosecution case. Nicholls received a call on his mobile at 19.19 and 21.22. He made a call at 19.55. He may well have made others but these are listed on the schedule. Which masts were these calls routed through? Does it fit with his evidence?
https://www.coolsmartphone.com/2016/11/10/locate-mobile-mast/
Something i have been looking at a lot is triangulation.
I was in the mobile industry at this time back in 95 - i can see with a click glance that the networks used in the statements are voda,cellnet and orange - via the dialing codes.
What people have to understand is that Orange had only just launched really, voda and cellnet were way ahead, 121 was a complete no no in rettendon, it barely worked outside the M25 in 1995.
Also -masts were not really shared in 1995. Certainly not a mast in a tiny hamlet in essex. Voda and Cellnet will have had base stations in nearby towns and certainly on the edge of the M25 - I actually had the mast database 20+ years ago for voda itself having working on behalf of them.
You are also looking at 2 - 8% of the population owning a digital mobile telephone in 1995 (analogue
cellnet and voda was still going strong).10% max.
As i say, orange, whcih if you look at statements relating to this on this site is used by tate and nicholls i think (tucker is voda) Orange was brand spanking new and was way behind in coverage.
Also being a nerd, Orange used what was then called GSM at a frequency of 1800mhz, which was roughly half the distance of Voda and Cellnet who operated at 900mhz. They began a lot of mast sharing in 98 and onwards and also voda and cellnet began using 1800mhz as it has advantages in cities for instance.