ACCESS/OPPORTUNITY/MOTIVE

Access/Opportunity/Motive

Professor David Wilson.
Professor of Criminology at Birmingham City University.

quote
" the first thing i want to say, and i deliberately asked to have this here first, is Access/Opportunity/Motive, because most crimes are actually solved by these TWO issues, Access AND Opportunity.
WHO had ACCESS to the " victim " and WHO had the OPPORTUNITY to use that access to affect the crime
Hollywood and TV have concentrated on the motive aspect, to make a good tv story, but i tell my students not to. In fact you don't need to worry about motive, CONCENTRATE on WHO had access to the 'victim' and who had the opportunity and then of course most crimes are cleared up.
92% of crimes are cleared up using just the access/opportunity aspects only."

Q1. Who had unfettered access to Madeleine McCann that night?(3rd May 2007)
Q2. Who had the opportunity to cover a crime that night?(3rd May 2007)

If your answer, to the two questions above, is probably only the McCanns and their 'friends' then surely that is where SY HAVE to call them in to be re-interviewed.

Isn't it?
The odds are pretty well stacked in police favour in solving this 'mystery crime' odds are 1/9 ON!

Well you don't need to be a Professor in Criminology to have worked out the likely culprits!

I watched him on the box as well. Very convincing. I too thought of this case when he said what you quoted above. Very interesting.

Here's a link to the programme yesterday about the Suffolk Strangler.

http://www.channel5.com/shows/killers-behind-bars/episodes/the-suffolk-strangler

Next week's case will be about the Scottish serial killer Peter Tobin.

Not Born Yesterday wrote:Here's a link to the programme yesterday about the Suffolk Strangler.

http://www.channel5.com/shows/killers-behind-bars/episodes/the-suffolk-strangler

Next week's case will be about the Scottish serial killer Peter Tobin.

I SAW THAT PROGRAMME,VERY INTERESTING,ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE FACT HE MAY HAVE KILLED BEFORE HIS LAST LOT OF KILLINGS.

Very interesting, yes.

And the motive aspect must surely apply to the crime itself - and in this case, if one assumes the crime to be 'covering up a death' one has to ask oneself, who would have a motive to conceal a death and what could that motive be?

To the title of this thread may I add Inclination.