Ian Clenahan
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112 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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She gives a story that they were both down in Devon and they've come down for a holiday. She's unaware that Ronald Platt is in the area. She hasn't got a clue about it. Don't know what you're on about. Yeah, we've got a boat. He's been out on his boat. But Ron Platt, I'm not clear what you're talking about. He's not down here. So that was her interview.
Did he meet Ron Platt during his time down in Devon? Did he go on out on a boat with Ron Platt? Why has he got Ron Platt's identification in his pocket? Why is he living under the name of Ron Platt? Yeah, it was just no comment to everything.
He would talk while the tapes were off. He would talk not about the job, but he would talk about everything. The weather, you know, whatever he wanted to talk about, he would talk.
He was very, very confident that we had nothing to prove that he was involved.
He was quiet when he was being fingerprinted. And I think he, because of course the game's nearly up then, isn't it? And his fingerprints are sent off.
So we knew what he told me on the phone was lies.
When you look back on it in hindsight, we hadn't even started on the evidence gathering at that point.
They faxed us a poster of Interpol's top 20, and he was like fourth on the list.
And we're like, oh my God, in sleepy Devon, there he is, surfaced, and we've got him.
The body came ashore on the 28th of July, and then he was arrested on October 31st, Halloween, 1996, and it went to trial mid-98. We worked on it solidly to the trial date in 98, so just under two years solidly we worked on that inquiry for. That was our only job. We were on it full time.
We had to find that boat because that is the mechanism about how the whole murder was committed, wasn't it? And without a boat, you know, he could say, well, OK, I haven't even got a boat. You know, where's my boat? It beggars belief how we came across the boat.
And a lad was just walking past, a copper was just walking past the room and walked in, oh, what's this? And written on the board was the boat, the Lady Jane. We knew the boat's name, but we didn't have a clue where it was. And he'd been in some dry dock earlier on the week before and had just seen this boat and remembered the name. And he said, I know where that boat is.
And everyone looks at him as if to say, what? And he says, yeah, I know where that boat is. I saw it in an Essex boat yard last week. So everyone packs up and runs down to this boatyard. And there it was, you know, it was, yeah, we found the boat. Incredible. We actually found the boat.
And Coppock said, well, we gave it to so-and-so who gave it to his mother to sell in a car boot sale.
So then you go and speak to mother and she says, oh, no, we didn't sell it. It never sold. So it's still in my garage, you know.
So then if you put in the anchor like that, well, how did they secure the anchor? Well, they must have tucked it into his belt. So then we sent the belt off.
We found the documentation in this house for a storage container.
There wasn't one bit that was better or more damning than another. Everything just kind of fitted into place.
Sea of Lies from Uncover · S32 E7: Plausible, Intelligent and Ruthless | Sea of Lies · 27 Feb 2025
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I didn't go into court because they were worried that she might keep staring at me for reassurance and the defence might pick her up and think, well, who is this person? And try to get a little chink in the armour. Yeah, I was asked not to.
Yes, because you're going to ask as a jury member, what is the relationship?
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