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Post mistress murder - husband arrested

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FabIsGoingToGetFit · 14/04/2010 12:21

When I first read about this a couple of weeks ago I had a feeling it was the husband who had killed her so no surprise has has been arrested.

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FiveGoMadInDorset · 14/04/2010 12:22

Well there is a surprise, not.

BAFE · 14/04/2010 17:03

Another one not in the slightest bit surprised either, poor woman

mejon · 14/04/2010 17:17

Me too Fab. Clearly a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty, but the whole thing sounded so suspicious at the time. How very sad for the poor woman's family.

localmum · 14/04/2010 17:21

I think a lot of people will be feeling the same. It was the first thing that crossed my mind too.

bellissima · 15/04/2010 09:36

Yep. The story about them bursting in 'upstairs' and attacking the wife before they came into the actual Post Office and confronted the husband. Just not credible. And big hints from the newspapers that no one had seen anyone in the vicinity. oh dear. poor woman.

Magaly · 15/04/2010 09:48

Yes it's ALWAYS the husband.

Fliight · 15/04/2010 09:50

Have just seen this, can't understand why everyone was so suspicious of the bloke - was he interviewed publicly?

Magaly · 15/04/2010 09:54

Well, I maybe I was only automatically suspicious because of the Joe O'Reilly case in Ireland where I live. He went on the Late Late show and you could just TELL!!! Everybody watching was sitting at home thinking omg! HE did it. His mother-in-law was sitting next to him as though he were a bucket of diarrhoea. It turned out the police suspected him and wanted to see how he'd react being interviewed on tv about it.

So now, I'm afraid, I ALWAYS think 'it was the husband'

Fliight · 15/04/2010 12:46

I have watched that now, Magaly...to me there was nothing obvious about it, I tried to find the bit where he gave it away, but couldn't.
There was only circumstantial evidence against him at the trial I think, too.

What I mean is every case is different, and yes there is a huge slant toward it being a close family member but that doesn't necessarily mean that it was the husband every time.

I wish I could see what people meant about Joe O'Reilly...though there have been other people in high profile cases who have appeared incredibly guilty, to me, so perhaps it is largely subjective?

FabIsGoingToGetFit · 15/04/2010 12:57

I had the feeling from reading one piece about it in the paper.

I should be a copper. I was right about Tracey Andrews too.

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FabIsGoingToGetFit · 15/04/2010 12:58

And the old bloke one with the glasses who said he and his wife had been tied up and robbed. He did it to his wife.

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Fliight · 15/04/2010 13:12

Who's Tracey Andrews?

you should be a cop, Fab

mind you i think the papers put a slant on it a bit, from what I've read.

Fliight · 15/04/2010 13:13

Oh her

yes she looked bonkers didn't she.

Magaly · 15/04/2010 13:32

Fliight, for me, the thing that screamed his guilt (Joe O'Reilly's) was the fact that he kept describing Rachel as ordinary. If he said once "she was just such an ordinary woman" he said it ten times in various different ways. That didn't seem normal or respectful to me. It was like he was devaluing her, going on about how normal she was.

Everybody else felt she was special, and that her death was a huge loss,,,, and yet, to him, she was so 'ordinary'. SO ordinary, and so worthless that he murdered her. It seemed clear to me from the position of armchair detective that he had devalued her totally in some sort of self-defence mechanism which enabled him to act normally.

I know that that is just me reading something into his choice of words, but I felt like it was a hunch with bells and whistles on it, ykwim?!

Magaly · 15/04/2010 13:33

*act normally, so he thought, rather.

DaisymooSteiner · 15/04/2010 13:35

And there was I thinking I was Miss Marple for working out it was the husband

Seems everybody else had the same idea...

Shaz10 · 15/04/2010 13:38

I guessed Tracie Andrews too! I spent ages asking my dad, "if the car couldn't overtake how did it get in front of them?" He said "just wait, you'll see", and we were right!

My dad guessed Gordon Wardell too!

FabIsGoingToGetFit · 15/04/2010 13:49

Gordon Wardell is who I meant too.

And the boyfriend who said his girlfriend went to work the day after valentine's day and he had killed her.

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Shaz10 · 15/04/2010 14:08

I once read a magazine article where they talked about the "trial by television", getting them to do public appeals to see if they'll crack.

Problem is, now anyone goes on the TV about dead/missing people, I shout "you did it!"

Fliight · 15/04/2010 14:31

Yes, I noticed that too, Magaly...I was really surprised when he kept saying 'she was just an ordinary woman'

you would tend to say how great someone was, really, wouldn't you, if you liked them.

Tears, Lies and Videotape is a good documentary about all these cases.

Magaly · 15/04/2010 15:03

oh yes, Tracie Andrews! another one whose story didn't add up right from the first second it was reported. Her story was virtually identical to somebody else's (TRUE) story that had been in the news only about a month before.

Curiousmama · 15/04/2010 15:24

I don't live far from Melsonby and a friend lives really near, she said lots of locals thought it was him.

poor lady

LouMacca · 15/04/2010 15:45

There was also the awful case of the special constable who was stabbed just outside her home and it turned out to be her husband. I remember seeing him on the TV (Crimewatch?) and I just had a feeling he had something to do with it. Slimeball.

The fact is that most people are murdered by someone close to them. I am not at all surprised that this poor ladies husband has been arrested.

Curiousmama · 15/04/2010 21:43

o' reilly interview How awful for the family and those two bairns

Northernlurker · 15/04/2010 21:47

I wasn't surprised either. I expect the police had it worked it straight away too. That poor, poor woman

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