Bill McDonald
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119 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Someone Knows Something · Someone Knows Something Introduces | Uncover: Sea of Lies · 27 Jan 2025
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You would think distinctive tattoo, circumstances, media coverage, press, something would come out somewhere. But it just didn't. It was just, it was just unexplained.
An autopsy is looking at something which will give you more information. And you're looking for clues.
The cause of death was recorded as drowning because of sea water detected in the lungs. So clearly, when the body entered the water, that person was breathing and they drowned. And that you would expect if somebody had fallen into the sea or if somebody was taking their own life or there was an accident at sea. Drowning would be the natural cause.
And he said, look, Rolex keep records and you might be able to identify this person by contacting Rolex, right?
But when the son of a fisherman says something... Each Rolex watch has a, and we're talking obviously there's fake and there's real Rolexes, but a real Rolex will have a serial number which is recorded by Rolex. That's unique to that watch.
And just over a week later... Rolex were able to tell us that, yes, the watch had been serviced, it had a service history, and it had been serviced at a jeweler's called Fattorini's in Harrogate.
And sure enough, they had a record, a card in a filing system, which had the serial number of the Rolex watch, and then underneath had a name. R.J. Platt. And the Platt was P-L-A-T-T. R.J. Platt. Of course, it doesn't mean to say that just because the watch has got a service history from a man called Platt, that the person wearing the watch is the person called Platt.
But it certainly took us further forward than where we were at that particular time.
They matched. And by searching his service record, it confirmed the fact that they had a record of this tattoo.
So we're starting to get some real progress.
The brother lived in Hay-on-Wye. He welcomed me into his studio. He was a cartoonist.
And he confirmed that actually the stars were in the shape actually of a Canadian maple leaf. And he talked about his brother having dual nationality and holding a Canadian passport and the fact that he loved Canada.
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 talking about 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.
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