Not necessarily the 5A shutter, but yes, he would almost certainly have on previous dates done same with some other windows/shutters of block 5 and surrounding blocks.
In the earlier attempted burglary at the 5G (Fenn) apartment, it is highly likely the perp entered through the window which the witness reported had been opened..
Using Heriberto's simple 3-stage method.
And before anyone says - oh that is impossible because it was an upstairs apartment he would have to climb to do that - here is the easy solution.
The entry point at 5G is likely to be the window which opens onto the publically accessible first-floor walkway.
So that window to a burglar is as easy as a groundfloor window
I think the following may be proof that little time is required to raise the shutter of the apartment; any subsequent noise either being ignored or unheard; and the person/s carrying out the procedure being able to do so unobserved.
- Snipped -
- Back at 5A of the Ocean Club, on 26 September someone forced up the external blinds of the front bedroom to an oblique angle. There appeared to be no attempt to force open the window. The security guard stated between 21:00 and 21:05 he had done the 'rounds' of the block, then walked down to the supermarket and back again whereupon he found the damage which he called in immediately.
- He and a colleague from the same security detail had conversed shortly before 21:00 noting that neither had seen any strangers other than two Canadian television journalists, a man and a woman, who had been seen at a nearby bar.
- Given the limited damage and that there had been many people at that location [presumably during the previous days and all authorised] there was no attempt to retrieve fingerprints, but inquiries were made of TV crews and journalists in and around Luz and Lagos, without result.
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