What is your evidence for these assumptions?
The testimony of the search trio are witness to this. Of that very manipulation. Of being led on to this path by him. Of asking for something for his dog to scent with. Of introducing the woodland at the Gino spot. Of the turmoil in thought upon minutes later being faced with Jodi being dead. - Of the shock, of trying to relate what had happened. Of coming to this V, of a dog up at a wall here and so forth - they were not using words the same at LM, of being led to Jodi, of his dog alerting to Jodi. One minute they are at this V and in seconds he is shouting out he has found something - bang. And we can see once that fog lifted a little, when that serious of events were clarified. That there was absolutely nothing that showed that it was LM's dog who led him to this V - it was him. And we know that he only clarified his lies more - of being 40ft down passed this V break. So yes, there is every evidence of manipulation - from that very moment, LM lied, when he said Jodi had failed to meet with him - in Newbattle. Of offering to search and be on the very path, next to where he had murdered her. - clear manipulation.
