Bill McDonald
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119 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Bill McDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I explained obviously the circumstances. We had a difficult conversation. He was clearly obviously distressed and perplexed and concerned and had absolutely no idea why his brother would be in Brixham or on the south coast of Devon.
Are we looking at somebody who's taken their own life? Potentially this man, Platt, had some form of mental health worries.
And you would think at that point it would be obvious as to, right, what had happened. But actually it wasn't. And we were equally perplexed and left scratching our heads thinking, well, what's this man's connection with Devon? And we couldn't find one. And that in itself was just very odd.
You can imagine you work in a busy office with lots of people. Everybody had a suggestion. And I remember being frustrated with, you know, I was saying to a lot of people, without any evidence, you need evidence to draw a conclusion.
Everybody had a theory. I look back on it now and smile because we had some fairly imaginative suggestions, but actually none of them were anywhere near the true reality and the story that unfolded, which was the most incredible story with the most sensational ending, I guess you would say.
And, you know, you're both looking at each other with some disbelief, I guess, as to, well, what's this all about?
There's too many unanswered questions. There's too many unknowns. Because it would seem that David Davis was probably, from what we could identify, one of the last people to see him alive.
I guess it's at that point that you, I guess, a bit more switched on to, right, OK, we need to step this up a level.
And you then recall that there's been a conversation in the past about the deceased having some ex-partner.
A woman called Elaine, Elaine Boyes.
In suggesting Elaine Boyes, I think he was hoping that she might be able to answer more of the questions that would help us. And then it's right, okay, we need to find Elaine Boyes.
We track Elaine down, and she tells us a fascinating and very interesting story.
There's no playbook for this type of fraud.
You need to understand that having arrested somebody, you only have a limited amount of time that you can hold that person in police detention.
You need to move quickly.
It's difficult at this point to explain to somebody listening the speed at which things start to happen.
They're held in the custody suite at Torquay Police Station. It's myself and Ian Clenahan that are conducting the interviews. He's a tall, confident man.
Very plausible. Immediately seeking to establish rapport.
You have a sense that at every point, he feels superior.
He did what we would call a no comment interview.
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