The volume of evidence that links to Canaan, albeit some of it a bit tenuous, seems to point to him being responsible:
Suzy had apparently been on recent dates with a Bristol businessman who took her motor racing and had to end dates early.
JC had to get back to the bail hostel and had lived in Bristol.
JC apparently liked motor racing.
SL had asked her sister to borrow 'sloaney' clothes for a date, JC liked girls in pleated skirts, preppy/public school types.
JC was apparently known as Kipper in prison.
JC was on day release from Wormwood Scrubs when SL went missing.
His colleagues said he often went to the Fulham bars that SL went to.
JC told Gilly Paige, a former girlfriend and professional ice skater, he had buried Suzy, Gilly later retracted the statement. Former girlfriends were very frightened of him and what he was capable of when spurned.
JC was good looking and charming and seemed to turn nasty when he was rejected. SL had told her parents she was going to finish with someone she'd initially liked. Did she do that at lunch on the day she disappeared, not at Shorrolds Rd but somewhere else nearby? Had she invented the Shorrolds Rd appointment as she didn't want to let the office know her plans? Had she finished with him previously and the lunch date was his attempt at winning her back?
Numerous eyewitness accounts of JC in the area of Fulham on the day. Including a cab driver that saw a man in a left hand drive dark BMW, JC allegedly had one that was later traced. Also the photofits before JC was named as a suspect, they look like him.
Someone in Fulham paying for a bottle of expensive champagne and leaving without getting change and someone else later seeing a man answering his description in Fulham holding a beribboned bottle of champagne. His sort of OTT gesture (?).
His ex girlfriend, Daphne Sargent said:
'As soon as I heard about Suzy, I knew it was John, it had all the hallmarks, right down the to champagne'.
Shirley Banks murder
He would likely have got away with that if the police hadn't found her tax disc screwed up in JC's belongings/& her car.
He was clever and told the police he had bought the car at auction.
He had changed the number plates on Shirley Banks's car to:
SLP 386S - he initially responded to police, when questioned, that this number plate change was linked to SL only to change his mind saying 'no, no, no'.
SLP - being SL's initials and 86 being the year she was abducted.
I would have thought that was a coincidence only he had left Sandra's body in 'Dead Woman's Ditch' - a certain mindset? Sick sense of humour? Someone that did that might also change a number plate as above, referencing an earlier crime?
He kept Shirley alive overnight and she called in sick to work. Did he get more artful re: abductions/murders as time went on? His crimes seemed to get increasingly violent.
I read that when the police asked why JC just didn't confess to SL murder he said 'it isn't as simple as that, she's got company'. A joke at police's expense?
Sandra Court was found dead in a ditch in May 1986. JC denied ever being there but a pay-and-diplay ticket proves he was in Bournemouth on day she was murdered.
These sort of abductions or attempted abductions and murders of women who fitted the SL profile seem to stop after JC was convicted and sent to prison. He tried to abduct businesswoman Julia Holman just before Shirley and there were other similar crimes he committed.
While living in Bristol JC had an affair with his solicitor helping him get custody of his child in 1987, despite previous rape convictions etc she wanted a relationship with him. Clearly he was charming and convincing.