This is regarding the British guy who was accused of butchering his gay lover in England and was captured yesterday in Central Park.
I was watching the report on the news last night where they showed surveillance camera footage of him in Heathrow airport departing for NY.
Assuming he wasn’t dumb enough to use his real name and passport when he purchased his ticket, is sifting through airport (or train station) surveillance tape common procedure in a murder investigation?
I think he did use his real name and passport. He left very shortly after the murder, and before he was a suspect. (Possibly even before the murder had been detected.) Unless he happened to have a passport in a false name lying around the house, he didn’t have much choice but to use his own - and quickly.
Yes, security video tapes will often be reviewed , but usually only from cameras in or near the crime scene. Sifting through all the videos from all international airports and seaports on the off-chance that a suspect has passed through using an assumed name would be a mammoth task, and I can’t imagine they do it very often. In any event movement control and security at seaports is very light compared to airports, and there wouldn’t necessarily be video footage of everybody who passed through (except perhaps in “crowd scenes”).0
I just read in the paper that he actually used his real name at the hotel he was staying at in NY, and a British couple summoned police after spotting him on a Central Park bench reading a newspaper article about himself!
Not the sharpest tool in the box.
No, he left that behind.
Ouch !