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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And then we both stand there and we're looking at each other and it's like, oh my God, that's that moment, you know?
And he said, well, there was the anchor in the net.
But interestingly, the anchor wasn't in the net, in with the fish, down at what we called the cod end.
We had a local scenes of crime sergeant and he'd been involved in investigation all the way through and he takes the anchor and I can remember coming back in a day or two later and he's very excited and he's clutching the anchor and he's got photographs that have come from the post-mortem and he has a photograph of the anchor laying on the bench next to the body
And the anchor shaft perfectly fits the bruising on the thigh.
And it didn't just match. It was a really, really strong evidential match. It wasn't a question, well, it could be the anchor. It was almost, yes, that's the anchor.
I said, don't touch it, don't switch it on, don't do anything with it, just box it up, bring it back here.
Not only could they say that that was the date and time that it had been switched off, they could also say the location at which it had been switched off.
five miles off the coast of Tynmouth, out to sea, virtually contemporaneous on the spot where John Coppock recovers the body.
She was delicate. She was vulnerable. She was nervous. She was anxious.
And that in itself was a, I know, a very emotional and hugely significant moment for Barbara Walker, Sheena's mother.
As soon as we started to uncover what was happening on the ground here in July, the picture really started to... really crystallize in our minds.
You're the first people I've worked with that have taken the trouble to come down and actually come and see it properly. Because I think you have to see it to really understand it and see how it all fits together.
Could that have been an abortive attempt on that particular visit? Was it a dress rehearsal for what was to come? Was he just putting the final preparations to his final plan? We don't know. The only person really that could tell us that would be the two people involved.
They wanted to extend the stay. Father was insistent they extended the stay. That property, Potter's Loft, they were unable to secure that. There was obviously other people coming in.
They had to vacate. So Sheena had to move everything, all their, all their clothing and the kids and everything they brought with them down the hill into the old brew house.
As we're stood here now, it's an idyllic setting. It's a beautiful stretch of river. And it's difficult to conceive that this is the backdrop to what eventually would be the day of the murder.
So the sequence would have been able to come out of this accommodation as we're stood here now, walk down the pontoon.
Kirk would have come over, picked him up, and they would have taken him the short distance upriver to the river mooring.
As you look up through the trees, you'll see a large white house set back on the hillside.
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