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People should do their job properly
On Thursday evening I decided to call the detective inspector who was heading up the case into what happened to Bella and so on. As when I contacted our liaison officer with my theory for what happened she passed it on to him, and then he emailed me back saying that in my theory there were three gaps in time that I had not explained so it was not something he could take to the CPS.
So from receiving that email I sat down and had a few different times when I thought about it and how to explain the gaps in what I was presenting to him. Then it struck me like a thunderbolt, the gaps were quite simple to explain.
Two of the gaps were quite clearly travelling to and from the party, and the third I could also explain from personal experience. So I sat down on Thursday morning and typed up an email to him, I covered each of the gaps and explained to them all how they were, the two gaps being travelling time. Which someone who is supposed to be a detective inspector should have gathered that at least two of the gaps in the theory being presented to him would be the travel time from one part of Manchester to effectively the other side of Manchester.
I even explained why one of them was substantially longer than the other because she had left something at the party, and only found that out when she was minutes from home so had to get the…