David Webber

But from what I understand, there was a partial payment because the company was suspicious.

Mm.

However, the thing is that this insurance policy was taken up before she passed away, before she disappeared, and that being a motive as put forward by the prosecution.

So initially the story to police was he came home and she wasn't there and looked, some clothes are missing.

Then the story changed to I dropped her off at a train station.

The train station tended to change, which train station it was tended to change in the telling.

So initially showing a detective the empty space in the wardrobe where the clothes had gone.

And then within days, he said, oh, look, you know, what really happened is I took her to a railway station so she could meet someone in town.

And then that person called me to say that she hadn't arrived.

And then there was another version saying she'd gone to the city on business.

In that version, he dropped her off at Mount Lawley train station.

In another version, dropped her off at a rail station to visit a friend for a short period.

And then later to a subsequent partner saying,

He had said that the Bernies killed her, well-known serial killer couple in late 1986.

Well, the key lies, of course, were his different versions of events.

The children, in their evidence, said that nothing was ever said, really, about her disappearance.

It was something that just wasn't talked about.

There were what would seem to be some efforts to try and create a picture to help support his claim that she'd gone to a train station.

So with Heath, for instance, he remembers Dad going to a train

a service counter at the train station so that he was only three years old, but he would then perhaps remember, oh, yes, we did go looking for mum at the train station, so she must have left.