Tom Holland

So there is, I find, an incredible pathos about that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He doesn't have a job at the time.

So when he runs into Mary Jane walking down Thrall Street around 2 a.m.

and she asks him for money and he says, sorry, I haven't got anything.

Can't help.

Yeah.

And Hutchinson then says after this exchange that Mary Jane had had with him, he had watched her be approached by a second man.

And this is a person who's pale-faced, according to Hutchinson, and very well-dressed.

He's wearing an Astrakhan coat.

And the two of them haggle, terms are agreed, and Hutchinson then watches the two of them disappear off Dorset Street down the dark alleyway that leads into Miller's Court.

Yes.

And he will then go on to give another, even more detailed description of this man.

And people may wonder, it's dark.

They're standing in shadows.

How plausible is it that he would have seen every detail?

And we will come to this in due course.

But just to finish detailing Hutchinson's evidence, he said that he'd waited by the entrance of Miller's court for just under an hour and that neither Mary Jane nor her client reappeared.

If he can be trusted, they had disappeared into her room around two o'clock.