Claimed partial training, locating a toy from a tree! The bog standard play games.
You would indeed expect the dog to take an interest in the scent of its master. You would also expect the dog to take in the scent of many other dogs such as DD's 8 spaniels who had been over that break earlier that evening. And of course other dogs along the path scenting at the wall, damn dogs in the field running loose also. LM's dog was on a short lead at all times. It had nothing to scent with in respect of that young girl. But and again, this is in respect of where the dog was actually standing up at the wall, sniffing the V shape lol. You know, where DD and his 8 spaniels had been over before, no doubt on their return journey also.
Let's just remind people where the victims body lay which was some 43ft west of that V break, several feet in from the wall. Now let us remind people again of what LM claimed had taken place. Of his dog reacting some distance past that V break. Not quite 60yrds. Not bad eh? That he had to return to the break in the wall to gain access. That he turned left to follow in the direction of where his dog had reacted (claimed) parallel to on the path side of that wall. Did not happen. It was always that the dog was up at that wall at the V break, its head level with the base of that shape. That not them, LM, the dog had been where LM claimed. Straight to that V break, up and over and his pretence of going left.
Got to love this 'assuming' the murder had taken place there. WTAF has that got to do with LM's lies? It changes absolutely nothing of him knowing where the victims body had been hidden behind his "large oak tree" It doesn't erase all of that, replace the dogs interest in the V break with an alternate murder place - Hilarious.
Therefore yes, it certainly was demonstrated that LM had prior knowledge. Not least of all because he made us some fable of where his dog had been putting off this alert. Did not happen, there was no point A (LM's position) There was only point B (The V break). We really do need context not this continuous dog & wall game. His 'large oak tree' he described the body being behind. Marvellous stuff, the lad who claimed never to have been in there before. Enters that woodland alone in the dark (torch or not), takes in a big "oak tree" Pull the other one. Describes a hair fastener that only the killer could have known about. Deeply embedded in the victims hair, found by the pathologist. Victim facing upwards! Clothing, injuries etc.
Back to the evidence. It was demonstrated that LM had all but not moved beyond that wall when entering the woodland. The boy who claimed never to have been in there before. Who described the tree by type that the victims body lay behind. His "big oak tree," describing things only the killer would know, someone familiar with the scene. Such as that distinctive hair tie, no doubt intentionally left out of the reconstruction for that reason. We know his alert did not take place where he claimed, we know there was absolutely nothing to guide him to the spot where the victims body lay. But let us talk time here?
The dog is standing up at the V break, a dark woodland lies beyond that wall. The boy claims never to have been in there before. AW takes the dogs lead, she stays at the break. JaJ's with SK continue to walk away from the V break. (spot the flaws again with LM's fable?) The young couple walk around 10 -15 no more than '20' steps when LM calls out, his voice 'behind' them. AW who describes his voice as being next to her (The V break). They haste back that tiny distance and LM is indeed at the V break. He had all but not moved beyond that wall. Everything he was to describe was shown to have come from prior knowledge. All stuck fast in that web of deceit he kept spinning?
An incredulous tale from a boy with zero credibility.
