Five indications that Dominic Cummings returned to Durham the week after Easter - the evidence is worth examining

 The evidence that Dominic Cummings returned to Durham the week after Easter  includes the following:

Firstly, he was seen by several  independent witnesses walking in the woods that weekend.

Secondly, his “evidence” of being in London is demonstrably insufficiently robust to withstand scrutiny by anyone except a gullible Prime Minister; (it may, for example, simply be evidence  that one of his mobile phones was in London that weekend ).

Thirdly, the entire Barnard Castle eye-drive test charade makes no sense if his wife was available to drive South on Easter Monday.

Fourthly, he sought to convince us that he drove North feeling that his London home was unsafe for his wife and child to be alone there; why then would he bring them back to that unsafe environment? But if he had had a week there to observe that the “unsafe” claim was  nonsense, of course he might drive back to Durham to collect them.

Fifthly, his wife Mary Wakefield wrote in the Spectator that she emerged from Lockdown into London. This implies that she had a further time of lockdown after Barnard Castle.

I can certainly imagine that the extra trip may have started as a careful subterfuge with a phone left with an aide, and possibly driving a hired or borrowed car.

Neither Cummings nor Johnson ever explained why his wife did not drive the car on Easter Monday. It may harm your defence if you fail to mention something that you later rely on.

This makes at the very least an overwhelming case to answer, and yet Cummings and Johnson have treated the public and the  regulations with contempt. If the Rose Garden was a further charade then both should resign for misleading the public on a matter of public health regulations. 

 

Or see the final verse of me singing the “Extra Extra Homes of Durham”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8W25vgR8EE

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