MurielSnark
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I have never heard of any journo asking a potential interviewee in advance for contacts of their next of kin or emergency contact? I doubt that happened.because there was duck all wrong with her.
i've mithered over this before. jack named her AA sponsor and her ex partner as contacts, probably without their permission. I think she done this because the only other people who could go down would be her parents or SB's dad, both of whom know she's full of tit and would say as much to someone phoning to say how worried they were about her.
I think the whole thing was orchestrated because:
1) She wanted LJC back and LJC said no, and so the 'we're very worried about Jack' call was to worry LJC at a time when she'd already moved on
2) AA sponsor probably has her card marked and Jack knows it, but wants to still play the addict hand. IMO, she added them deliberately so that someone else was contacting the sponsor with a 'we're very worried about Jack' call, reinforcing the point she's hammering into the sponsor that she's not a liar, and she is very vulnerable.
I don't think i've explained this well at all. TLDR: she planned the whole thing to get attention from the sponsor, LJC, and to add a bit of excitement to the story and the day in general.
I think Shatty & co couldn't rouse Jack when the driver arrived to collect her and they started phoning around. Because LJC is probably easy to each on a weekend thru mutual journo contacts or cos Shatty has her number himself, they called her. Interview was on a Saturday so Agent Adrian's office was closed but perhaps they had his mobile and called him too. Either LJC or Adrian gave Shatty the AA sponsor's number because, by that point, they were genuinely worried and neither of them was in Southend. The AA sponsor presumably is local to |Jack and could be mobilised to do a door knock if needed.
As to how much Jack engineered and pre-planned this chaos, I'm still unsure but fraus' arguments on this are compelling.
OT: Tim Dowling, Shatty and Adrian Chiles are a triumvirate of bores with no new ideas and a totally complacent approach to their cushy jobs. It is my personal bugbear that they just go on and on and that one of them is married to the Guardian Editor in Chief. There's so many cool, bright journos out there being retrenched or scrabbling around the freelance pools and I wish someone would clear out the dead wood at the Graun and reinvigorate them.