JUSTICE FOR ROBERT DARBY
WHY?
If JASON MOORE was the stabber,
WHY would he . . .
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Involve his sister Rhonda by asking her to drive him to meet Martin Power and then remain in the area before driving him back home?
If Jason knew there was any chance of Power meeting Robert Darby that day, and that it could possibly lead to a violent confrontation, he would wish to distance himself from it. He had simply asked his friend Power to ‘have a word’ with Darby, someone known to him, not stab him to death.
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Enter a busy pub in broad daylight, just a couple of miles from the crime scene and a few hours after the incident?
Jason travelled by car from Epping back to the Hainault Oak pub in Barkingside with his sister Rhonda and his partner Sandra. CCTV captured the three of them talking inside the pub. He knew that Darby and his friends or associates could be out looking for Power, not him. It was only after Power warned Jason that the Darby family would come looking for him – Robert and at least one of his friends knew where Moore lived – that he left England in genuine fear of his life.
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Instruct his solicitor to instigate communications with DI Andy Jones (the SIO) to seek The Met’s help in facilitating his return to England from Dubai, where he was being questioned by local authorities regarding his passport?
As far as the police were concerned, Jason wasn’t wanted for murder, there was no international warrant out for his arrest and the MPS weren’t actively searching for him. All DI Jones did after being contacted by Jason’s solicitor early in 2012 was to simply reply by email suggesting Moore make his own way back to London.
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Walk into a police station in October 2012 and give a voluntary interview, lasting several hours, and answering every question put to him?
Jason genuinely went in to help police with their enquiries.
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Urge police to re-interview Paul Hunt, Robert Darby’s friend who witnessed the incident?
Jason (who didn’t know Hunt’s name at this stage) told the interviewing officers: “You need to get him in and question him – he will tell you everything that went on because he was there and saw what happened.”
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Co-operate fully by participating in another ID parade – seven years after he hadn’t been picked out in the original 2005 ID procedure viewed by the same witness?
Jason’s solicitor complained that this ID parade breached police protocol. By helping police with their enquiries, Moore unwittingly opened the door for them to produce witness Abdul Ahmed, who picked him out in the video ID parade, even though the accused had put on three-and-half stones in weight since the 2005 ID.
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Not flee the country again after being released on bail?
Although he had to adhere to certain bail conditions (live at a designated address, report twice weekly to a local police station and not enter the borough of Tower Hamlets), he could have obtained another passport and flown anywhere in the world. But he stayed because he thought and hoped justice would prevail.
If MARTIN POWER was innocent,
WHY would he . . .
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Switch his phone off 20 minutes after the stabbing incident because – in his words – “he didn’t want to be tracked by police”?
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Drop his BMW off at his friend’s commercial car sales premises, just a couple of hours after the stabbing, asking for it to be cleaned on the driver’s side and kept while he fled to Spain?
If there was no chance of Darby’s DNA being transferred to Power’s car, possibly via a knife or clothing, why have the vehicle’s interior thoroughly cleaned?
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Leave the country and head for Spain, in a car driven by his friend, two days after Darby was stabbed?
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Remain on the run in Spain (possibly also spending time in Holland) for nearly EIGHT years?
Unlike Moore who handed himself in to The Met, Power was arrested at gunpoint in Mijas on the Costa del Sol and extradited back to the UK on an international arrest warrant.
Leave behind his wife and four daughters?
Who leaves their closest family for eight years for a crime they didn’t commit?
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Not have his girlfriend Terrie Beales called as a witness to give court evidence on his behalf?
The last phone call Power received, just minutes before the stabbing, was from Beales. And they subsequently exchanged numerous further calls in the immediate aftermath of the incident. She clearly knows much more than she has told police. Unfortunately for Jason, because Beales was listed among Power’s defence witnesses, but wasn’t called to court to give evidence, his legal counsel didn’t include her on their list.