Reply #18: You Do Not Have, Sir, Anything Like Sufficient Evidance To Make That Claim [View All]

[The Magistrate]

A person contacted more than half a year after an event is quite likely to mis-remember it, particularly if, as is the case here, it was something that at the time seemed of no importance whatever. If the fellow was recently about the place, it would be very likely he was remembered casually to have been about it from the begining.

It is certainly conceivable that there is some mis-identification in the Pakistani journey, though there is at present no reason to believe that the case. Variety in journalists accounts do not convey anything like the signifigance you seek to attach here: journalism is called "the rough draft of history" for good and well-established reasons.