Yep, I knew that...but you'd have thought that they would have followed up all leads concerning bin lorries when the last sighting of him was when he was pissed, entering a "bin loading bay" at 03:25, wouldn't you? Especially after the mobile phone travelling to Barton Mills proved fruitless.
It is a long walk, I agree. If you zoom in, you'll see there are footpaths that head in the right direction (for Honington) off the country lane that go right round the shore. A long shot, I agree - pure speculation. BUT.... that's not the right direction if he was with his phone when it was...
I wonder how precisely his phone matched the route. It's extremely hard to be pinpoint accurate about a mobile's exact location, even using triangulation from multiple towers. GPS, I guess, but is that data saved anywhere?
"....the phone then moved to the Barton Mills area...." How quickly...