It was a strange thing to say, "But I just thought it was"?
Could it be that Murat had been discussed by members of the tapas group prior to the identification episode? It was claimed that Murat was there on the night of the disappearance, something he vehemently denied. Was he the perfect stooge?
This has been discussed at length before on this forum. My opinion has not changed,
The few words bolded above - is an unfinished sentence IMO - but the typist has put a full stop instead of the customary several full stops used to indicate that. There are many examples of the same mistake being made by the typist doing that. For example:
QUOTE4078 “So you don’t feel, in your heart of hearts”. (an unfinished sentence - but ending in a full stop)
4078 “You don’t feel it was the same person?”
Reply “No, I don’t, no”.
End quote.QUOTEReply “I know, the problem is, it’s just getting the Press and the”. (an unfinished sentence but ending in a full stop)
End quoteIMO that should have been typed as
''I know, the problem is, it's just getting the Press and the...'' (an unfinished sentence - therefore ending in several full stops)
QUOTE Reply “You know, or said yeah, had said that he wasn’t there on the night, so you know was immediately, I think it was immediately, I’m not trying to push anything onto Robert MURAT’s door, cos as I say I don’t think it was him that I saw”.
4078 “No”.
Reply “But I just thought it was”. (an unfinished sentence but ending in a full stop)
End quoteIMO that should have been typed as ''But I just thought it was....'' and as she was talking about her reasons for phoning Bob Small at the time - I think that comment was in relation to why she thought it was important to do that and was not referring to her surveillance of Murat. To claim that it was Murat she saw at that point would make no sense at all because of her comment immediately prior - stating that she did NOT think he was the man she saw.
It's highly pertinent IMO that the police officer asking the questions (and who - unlike us - was actually there at the time) didn't consider - 'But I just thought it was.' - as being a contradictory claim to her two previous ones.
If she had - then she would have surely homed in on it and made a point of clarifying exactly which of the claims made by JT was the correct one - because if she thought JT was now claiming that the man she saw on the 3rd was in fact Murat - after twice stating that he wasn't the man - then that would be an important change of evidence which needed to be recorded. No such clarification takes place in the wake of that comment.
AIMHO