Website launched for Mark

[Myster]

More photos of the house, grounds and crime scene... http://www.freemarkalexander.org/gallery/

If he was worried about the whereabouts of Sami for several weeks, did Mark not think to search the garage just in case he'd locked himself in and couldn't get out ?  According to the text under the garage door photo, Sami's body had been stored there for a period before burial.

[Myster]

There was nothing to stop Mark moving his dad's body at nightfall on such a sparsely populated estate, and if anyone did spot what they thought could be suspicious they would be none the wiser if Sami was already wrapped up in plastic bags or sheeting... no different to seeing a bundled-up carpet being dragged into, or out from storage.

[Myster]

Or Sami's body could have been carried / dragged from the house where he met his fate via the side door facing the back garden which was sheltered from prying eyes (see overhead photos), to the white garage door, then stored inside until the burial site had been prepared to receive him.

[Fact Checker]

The police will have interviewed all the neighbors in that street to find out if anyone saw Sami after he supposedly disappeared so two people claiming to have seen him now is just a little bit convenient given all the previous publicity.  Or are these the people his son claimed he was meeting in London on his secret trip away in which he was invisible and didn't spend a penny?

The latest sighting comes from a witness statement taken on 22 February 2010 which has been tucked away in the list of non-material statements all this time. Unfortunately, Mark's legal team missed it at trial, and we have only got hold of it now. The witness was the neighborhood watch coordinator at the time, and said that

"I caught a fleeting glimpse of Sami in front of his driveway, he was alone and I said good morning, he did not respond to this. He was in my view for only a couple of seconds, but I am 100% certain it was Sami... I am 80% certain it was... either on Sunday 11 October or Sunday 18 October".

This is now the second confirmed independent sighting of Sami alive after 5 September, the first being the meeting that he is recorded as having with Peoples' Voices (a charity contracted by Buckinghamshire County Council) on 8 September.

[Fact Checker]

But I can't get my head around why Mark ordered such a large amount of concrete to cover yet more previously laid "underpinning" concrete, supposedly to stop roots undermining the garage wall, when the trees which were causing the problem had already been removed.  Why not just backfill with the soil which had originally been in the hole, or barrow a few loads of gravel? from that large industrial-sized bag (shown in one of the photos) at the front of his house instead.  The use of so much impenetrable concrete implies an intention that his father's remains would never be discovered.

This wasn't an isolated work area, there are two other sites just like the one where Sami was found (http://www.freemarkalexander.org/gallery/). These were installed using the same methodology, following the removal of trees.

We have a copy of Sami's original planning application for the area where he was later found:

"When the house was built in 1986 the lime trees were much smaller than they are now and the builders had no idea what distance to allow. 17 years on, the trees now pose a visible threat to the foundations of both the house and the garage"

Mark believes that the construction site was used opportunistically by those responsible for his father's death, because the work was happening around the same time.

[Fact Checker]

And by immediately pointing out "while he was still at university?" this statement alone strikes me as manipulative. Is this written to suggest university students don't commit murder?

Mark was barely 22 when this awful event occurred. The fact that he was at university establishes both lack of motive (he was due to move out in September 2009, so if he wanted to get away from home as the prosecution suggested all he had to do was wait; it doesn't make sense for him to throw his life away like this), and a strong alibi (Mark was living with his partner who recalled that they spent every night together).

Why is Mark charging £1 to view the CCRC's statement of reasons? http://www.freemarkalexander.org/case-file/

This is both a legal measure and a security measure. The documents are made available subject to Licence Terms, which are only enforceable if a valid contract has been made. The rate of £1 was set by our site technician to cover transactional and administrative costs, so we are reliant on him for this.

[Fact Checker]

On his website it is naively claimed that he couldn't have murdered his father as he was at university fifty miles away. The truth however is somewhat different.  He could have driven back to the family home, killed his father, hidden the body and returned to his university lodgings at any time and nobody would have been any the wiser.  He could thereafter have returned to bury the remains after attempting to cremate them.

The prosecution ruled this possibility out themselves when they established the chronology at trial. Mark could not have driven anywhere without being picked up by ANPR cameras. The police retrieved all the local taxi journals and were able to identify any occassions on which Mark travelled by train and taxi. Mark's defence team have painstakingly retraced his steps between September and December 2009, and there is strong alibi evidence. Mark simply wasn't in the vicinity of Drayton Parslow anywhere near long enough to carry out the crime.

Only someone like Mark with an insider knowledge of the property and of the neighbours could have managed to dig a grave and bury a body in such circumstances. Had he been discovered he had an excuse for being there.

The question perhaps then, is who else had this kind of knowledge and access? Where are the four individuals who were working for Sami, in his home, at the time? Employed on recommendation, paid in cash, these individuals were not working for an agency, and had not been vetted. They were able to avoid registering with the authorities because of Sami's benefit scam. These were people who the neighbours would have been used to seeing coming and going as well.

What about the long list of individuals Sami was in contact with online and on his mobile, but who the police could not identify or trace? What about the victims of Sami's fraud?

[Fact Checker]

There was nothing to stop Mark moving his dad's body at nightfall on such a sparsely populated estate

Mark's movements show that he was never at the house any later than about 19:00, because he always travelled back to London after a visit. He never spent the night in Drayton Parslow between September to December 2009 because he was at university, living in London with his then girlfriend. She testified that they slept every night together and that he never stayed away anywhere else.

[Nicholas]

Fact checker why didn't Mark phone his father when he was in Moscow in the December or buy him a gift/souvenir?  https://youtu.be/hBtuFEB2ezA?t=229

But send the neighbours Christmas cards from the both of them!

"His son Mark, 22, had told his girlfriend and social services he was in regular contact with his father. 
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-10778640

[Nicholas]

Mark was barely 22 when this awful event occurred. The fact that he was at university establishes both lack of motive (he was due to move out in September 2009, so if he wanted to get away from home as the prosecution suggested all he had to do was wait; it doesn't make sense for him to throw his life away like this), and a strong alibi (Mark was living with his partner who recalled that they spent every night together).

"Samuel kept himself and his son apart. The picture is of the father and son living together in this house, more or less isolated from those who lived around and about him," Mr Price added. He said Mark commuted to lectures in London, caring for his "cantankerous" and "difficult" father, who had had a colostomy bag fitted in 2008.

Mr Alexander regularly boasted about Mark's academic achievements and intended for him to study at the University of Paris Sorbonne as part of his degree, without knowing that his son had no plans to take up the placement. Mr Price said: "The degree of control he exercised over his son, Mark, was disapproved of by others who observed it, and was resented by others whom it affected directly.

"For example, Senta Nazarbekova [Mark's girlfriend] described what she saw of the father-and-son relationship and how, as it seemed to her, Mark struggled under the weight of his father's expectations and his control of him. On the face of this, it seems Mark did not, or possibly could not, resist. To Samuel, Mark would have appeared every inch the dutiful and obedient son."

In September last year, however, Mark moved with Ms Nazarbekova to a flat in Fleet Street, central London, and told his tutors he could not go to France because his father was bed-bound. The prosecution alleges that it was likely by this time that Mr Alexander had already been killed.

During questioning by police, the accused insisted that his father was still alive. He claimed he had last seen him just before Christmas last year and his father was then living in a Christian community in London.

Mark Alexander denies murdering his father between 20 August 2009 and 5 February this year. He also denies unlawfully disposing of his body and two charges of perverting justice, by lying about his father's wellbeing and by dismembering his body and burying it in the garden.

[Nicholas]

Mark's movements show that he was never at the house any later than about 19:00, because he always travelled back to London after a visit. He never spent the night in Drayton Parslow between September to December 2009 because he was at university, living in London with his then girlfriend. She testified that they slept every night together and that he never stayed away anywhere else.

Sami may well have been dead by the time he moved in with his then girlfriend.

[Nicholas]

The latest sighting comes from a witness statement taken on 22 February 2010 which has been tucked away in the list of non-material statements all this time. Unfortunately, Mark's legal team missed it at trial, and we have only got hold of it now. The witness was the neighborhood watch coordinator at the time, and said that

"I caught a fleeting glimpse of Sami in front of his driveway, he was alone and I said good morning, he did not respond to this. He was in my view for only a couple of seconds, but I am 100% certain it was Sami... I am 80% certain it was... either on Sunday 11 October or Sunday 18 October".

This is now the third independent sighting of Sami alive after 5 September, the first being the meeting that he is recorded as having with Peoples' Voices (a charity contracted by Buckinghamshire County Council) on 8 September, the second being the disputed sighting by a neighbor of Mark and Sami working together on 1 October.

This isn't the first murder case where witnesses have been mistaken with dates and times and sightings

[Nicholas]

This wasn't an isolated work area, there are two other sites just like the one where Sami was found (http://www.freemarkalexander.org/gallery/). These were installed using the same methodology, following the removal of trees.

We have a copy of Sami's original planning application for the area where he was later found:

"When the house was built in 1986 the lime trees were much smaller than they are now and the builders had no idea what distance to allow. 17 years on, the trees now pose a visible threat to the foundations of both the house and the garage"

Mark believes that the construction site was used opportunistically by those responsible for his father's death, because the work was happening around the same time.

Marks a proven liar!

[Nicholas]

This is both a legal measure and a security measure. The documents are made available subject to Licence Terms, which are only enforceable if a valid contract has been made.

Ha ha

It's a way of making money

There's no reason to charge £1 for the CCRC statement of reasons!

[Angelo222]

Mark's movements show that he was never at the house any later than about 19:00, because he always travelled back to London after a visit. He never spent the night in Drayton Parslow between September to December 2009 because he was at university, living in London with his then girlfriend. She testified that they slept every night together and that he never stayed away anywhere else.

Her testimony doesn't make it true.