Bill McDonald
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119 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Coincidence? Maybe not.
The yacht, the Lady Jane, would have been moored mid-river. He would have got on board. Kirk would have come back to his pontoon. And then Walker would have sailed the Lady Jane boat up the river, probably about half an hour, to the port of Dartmouth.
That holiday accommodation was called the Anchorage. And it's only hours later, having left that, that he's murdered at sea with an anchor.
She couldn't recall the date specifically, but remembered that during the day, as she was sat with the kids, just waiting for her dad to return, she watched the opening ceremony of the Atlanta Olympics.
And that, for us, to be able to tie that down, that was huge.
We took a decision that to get her into the UK safely, we wouldn't put her on a commercial airline, and we approached the RAF, and they very kindly agreed to fly Sheena and a Nimrod with a whole complement of RAF personnel, who had no idea who she was, into Britain. That was a very, very unusual step. It was the right thing to do.
paparazzi were actually at every airport near to Sheena's location in Canada, waiting for her to be spotted or seen for the scoop that she was leaving.
She was delicate, she was vulnerable, she was nervous, she was anxious. She wanted to come over and do the right thing.
I was so unprepared for the tidal wave of global interest that the inquiry would then take.
In Canada, unbeknown to us, it was incredibly high profile and that kind of transferred over here.
Mobile trucks from CNN, Sky News, Fox News.
In English law, the prosecution bat first, so our witnesses are heard first.
Someone Knows Something · Someone Knows Something Introduces | Uncover: Sea of Lies · 27 Jan 2025
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I'm Bill McDonald, Detective Sergeant in the Devon and Cornwall Police. So I was a team leader, effectively.
We felt that in the next couple of days, there would be something that would get reported, which was an explanation. Sooner or later, somebody would get reported missing.
We were doing stuff within the media.
We'd released a photograph of the tattoo.
Obviously, within our police computer systems and databases, you can also search on tattoos.
We were talking to different shipping companies.
We got passenger manifests for different boats and stuff.
I seem to recall there was a passenger reported missing from a cross-channel ferry, but over the coming days, sort of, actually, when you looked at the description, you looked at, you know, the person involved, none of it matched.
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