By the time Luke contacted JuJ Jodi had left the house at least forty minutes before. As far as JuJ was concerned Jodi and Luke we’re staying in Easthouses so 40-50 minutes was an excessive amount of time for her still not to be with him. Why didn’t she call Luke again to see that Jodi had turned up? As a mother surely it would be the natural thing to do?
Mr Ovens statements "I told Luke, Jodi had already left to meet him"
Common sense yet again. This is an ordinary evening, his daughter had left a short while ago to meet with her boyfriend. The boyfriend phones and is told she had already left to meet him. It's early evening in summertime. The family go about their evening, probably not given this a second thought, why would they? There is no phone call back, natural assumption that the pair had met. They couldn't phone Jodi to let her know Luke had phoned as Jodi did not have a phone.
Another area of suspicion upon Luke, whilst it is feasible that a teenager may delete her personal message to her boyfriend, having used her mothers phone, why would Luke have completely deleted everything from his? Not so feasible? Who was Luke worried about that may read them?
It gets to this girls curfew time, It appears JuJ gives her daughter some leeway here, gets to over half an hour of being late and she is annoyed at her daughter, first day of all her punishments being lifted and she stays out later than she should. She texted Luke's phone "Right Toad get home, you're grounded"
As soon as this mother realises her daughter has not been with Luke - she is frantic. How do we know this, as by 10.50pm she is phoning the police. This speaks volumes to me. It shows clearly that this girl was not in the habit of not being or doing what she had set out to do - on this occasion it was to meet with Luke.
We have Luke, who tells his friend that "Jodi is not coming out" Who told this girls mother that he thought "she had grounded her again" Who claimed himself that he was waiting around for nearly two hours on her turning up? Who knew she was not supposed to use this path alone, and even if he did think she was walking this path alone, he did nothing. By his account, she did not turn up, she was to be walking this path. He did not phone back to see where she was.
Yet again, clear, precise reasons as to why suspicion fell upon LM, why he could not be eliminated from the investigation.