John Johnston

The first thing that I found unusual was that it was a female who appeared to perhaps have drowned, who was lying face upward, which is unusual because when a person drowns naturally, they would normally be face down. From evidence found near the scene... We found a shoe quite close to the body. We found another shoe further up the beach.

Something happened that she was out of fear, fleeing from an attacker.

You had apparently bloodstained clothing, wet clothing, damp shoes. There were scratch marks on their arms. One of them had it cut somewhere around about the bridge of their nose.

I felt that we had the right people, that one or more or perhaps even all of them had been responsible for her death, and that there was circumstantial evidence at that stage.

All of these things built up to sort of give a picture that somehow or other she had come into contact with these four men and that one of them or all of them were responsible for the horrible death that she made.

The information that he provided was information which we term as someone having unique knowledge of a crime that could only have been known to the person who actually perpetrated the crime.

It actually fitted in with the pathologist's interpretation, which fitted in with her own interpretation of the events, and, you know, the fact that she was held. Now, that prisoner could not have known that. There is no way that he could have known it unless somebody came and physically told him.