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Post by cjm on Oct 30, 2015 7:34:18 GMT
That is clearly a hammer. How on earth that could have been overlooked I don't know. The missing towel is a cause for concern. The case has a history of pieces of evidence being mislaid and even pitching up on the judge's desk. Perhaps the broederbond is involved somehow?
From the beginning all sorts of rumours surfaced and the so-called circle of friends seems closer to the Mafia than a support group. I have a very dim view of them. From Van Byleveldt's initial attempts I also have the impression they are most unsupportive and in fact go out of their way to block information (except in the form of rumours).
I guess that Van Byleveldt's exit has more to do with a lack of funds than anything else.
It is said that to be knowledgeable one has to watch TV. Clearly the police don't even watch the TV crime series.
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Post by Trog on Oct 30, 2015 8:41:37 GMT
For myself, whereas I previously was intuitively almost convinced that it was the boyfriend (from behavioural considerations), I am now also rationally convinced of it. If I was the judge, I would maybe still hesitate to make a ‘guilty’ verdict, even in the light of the currently more thorough examination of the available evidence. But that is simply because the investigation was not sufficiently informed by the available evidence:
For instance, his alibi was not tested at all and is now found wanting – if this was initially rigorously pursued by the investigators Fred may have found himself in a situation where he had to radically alter his response to the charges.
Likewise, the analyses if the hammer was ridiculously incompetent. There was a suggestion of blood found on it which was rejected by the court. (At some stage a police officer (‘forensic expert’) used the exact same hammer to hit a dead pig’s head with it, in order to determine if it could’ve been the murder weapon! Surely, at the merest suspicion of blood on the hammer, it should’ve been thoroughly isolated and sent for high-sensitivity testing – e.g. x-ray fluorescence or scan electron microscopy or whatever. Not be used to clobber a dead pig!)
Incontrovertible proof of blood (any blood, even if not traceable to a particular individual) on the hammer would’ve clinched it. Fred would’ve had to explain how it got there, which he would’ve found impossible to convincingly do.
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