No cars were seen parked on the road never mind moving past Sadie. Carpenter needs to be questioned about the time he left the tapas. Russ returned at 9:45 and he didn't say he saw any car parked near to the apartment. And Jane can't really remember because she wasn't on a mission
So me and Matt walked back to the, to the, erm, to the flats, erm, this would have been about, about kind of twenty-five past nine, I suppose. Erm, and as we, you know, it will probably come back to, but as you asked me the other day, I didn’t certainly notice anything particularly strange or different,
I didn’t see any cars parked or anyone standing around or loitering. (Russell O'Brien)
4078 "And would it have been usually to have heard traffic noise at that time of the evening?"
Reply "No, not really, you might get the occasional car come into that car park, but mostly the car park you wouldn't have seen cars in, erm, and it's not really through road, when you look at the map it's sort of like on a 'U', so you've got the, a more main road at the top and one main T-junction to go down at the far end of the two apartment complexes, you didn't really get much through traffic, even going down the hill to the Supermarket there wasn't, there was always cars parked down there, so they must move at some point and there were lots of apartments, people must pass through, but there was never, it was pretty deserted".
4078 "Hear any cars?"
Reply "No. No, I mean, as I say, it was nearly always completely deserted, there was very few people in the resort, erm, you know, you only rarely saw, you know, occasionally people move about on the street and that was mostly during the day, erm, everybody else seemed to sort of eat earlier or, erm, used the baby sitting or whatever service, there were a few people about between and there wasn't really much of a thoroughfare for, erm, for traffic, so nothing that stuck out". (Matt Oldfield)
4078 “Were there any cars around there?”
Reply “Erm, umm, no, I don’t know. I don’t remember. I don’t remember walking past any going up here and I think I would have probably, if there had been I would have realised, because that would have obscured my view of the person walking, so I can’t think of, I can’t think of any, no”.
4078 “So as you are trying to remember it and you can think of yourself walking up that road and you have gone past Gerry and Jez”.
Reply “Umm”.
4078 “Are you conscious of any other movement?”
Reply “It’s, it’s too long now. Erm, no, not really. I mean,
I was just walking up, you know, I was like just sort of on a,
not on a mission, but I was just like, you know, on the way to, to check, so I didn’t notice anything either side.
The only thing I noticed a movement was when somebody walked across at the top”.
4078 “So you didn’t notice any car headlights or noises from cars?”
Reply “No, no, because I think, you know, if I’d heard sort of a car screech off quickly at that point, I probably would have, would have taken notice I think”. (Jane Tanner)
