Nick Bickerstaff Manchester

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It's inevitable that we'd have to look at Nick Pickerstaff's version of events and regardless of the comical video that I'm sure you've seen before, we still have to treat it as a piece of evidence. So quickly at the backstory with this one is that Nick is waiting in the fire for his daughter and his daughter's friend. It also suggests that the two younger kids are waiting for them back in the hotel with the mother. There's only a couple of articles that Nick did and it doesn't really confirm very much as far as the information regarding where he was standing specifically, what time the bomb went off or anything like that. He just describes that bodies were flying and that his reasoning behind doing this particular video was that he thought a second bomb might go off and if anybody was to find his phone that his family would have known that he was trying to find his daughter at the time. Whilst we can't pinpoint exactly when Nick was in the fire, he says that it was about 25 feet away from the blast. So again we've got another person who was fairly close to it but completely uningured. Right so let's get this video out of the way. Ellen! Ellen! Ellen! Ellen! Ellen! Ellen! Ellen! People are laughing and they don't know what's behind me. People are busting for bits and walk their bodies everywhere. Ellen! Ellen! Ellen! Ellen! So before we break down Nick's video, here is the map of how the arena looks. So Nick is seen the doors of 110-111 and behind him are the doors for 210-211 which is like an upper tier of the arena. The fire can be exited through effectively 206-207 sort of that side. So he's not really that far away. When I've described the concourse in my previous videos, I'm talking about that white ring that is effectively in the middle. That's where you've got your merchandise stalls and other bits and pieces but they're built into the wall and the merchandise store that I think they're talking about when they were making makeshift stretches are the ones that was the one that's in the foyer. Based on the newspapers they said that the torso of the bomber had landed sort of outside of where it says 207 just in that sort of area there. And whilst we don't really know where Nick is standing, we've got to assume that he must have been near these particular doors otherwise he would have had to walk over dead bodies in order to get from one side of the foyer through into the concourse to then film what you've just watched. So potentially he could in fact be standing near or next to Andy Holy as they were waiting for people to come out. Now it's only because Nick doesn't say either way but we were assuming that he didn't stay to help anybody. Even though Andy was sent flying from the foyer doors towards 106107 sort of that area and he's also ignored the torso if it was lying there on the concourse as per 207. And then he must have walked off towards the 11011 210 what 211 sort of area and because that's where he's started filming so let's pick it up from there. So at this point we're looking back down the concourse back from where he must have come from because the foyer is down that way. You're not going to be able to see the foyer but if you wanted to head towards it that'd be the direction you'd be going and the reason why I've paused it here is because you can see a guy from showsec there and then there's another person there just in between these two people in the foreground and ultimately if he's so concerned about finding his daughter he could simply ask them as to what's happened and ask for assistance in some way. So you can see a bit further down the concourse area and you can see that the people walking up from the direction where he's come as well. I actually think that the people that are shouting are actually mimicking him and because later on he says that people are laughing at him for what he's doing. And there's another showsec guy just going past him and here's another one that he's practically bumped into. So it's at this point you can see where he's walked up to but the most important thing to take on board with this is not so much his positioning because he doesn't really walk very far in this video but actually the reactions or the lack of from the other people that are in the area with him they're just walking about fairly casually in comparison to him. So this last bit of his video is the most telling part of it all because ultimately the video is strange let's just just put it that way but if it was just him walking about shouting out on its own then you could sort of overlook it as just this odd thing but it's because he says he was in the foyer and because in this particular video he says people are laughing at me but they don't know what's down there there's bodies ripped apart etc etc and he can only know that if he was actually there and if he wasn't there which I don't believe he is because he's not injured and he's certainly not showing any signs that he's got anything on him you know like say debris or dust or all this stuff that the foyer was supposed to have going on at the time then he can only know about these dead bodies with four knowledge I know it's a mad world that we're living but if he's not in the foyer and that he's then gone and seen the the foyer thereafter seeing the bodies and thought I know what will be a great opportunity I'll walk around the con course filming myself trying to look for my daughter that is just way too big a stretch he's just that's just not a normal human reaction he's not going to see dead bodies and automatically click to chance a mod people are laughing and they don't know what's behind me people butching to bits and walk their bodies everywhere Ellen Ellen Ellen so what we're going to do is watch a ITV interview that he did now it's a bit like Andy Holywear we've got this ridiculous story but the introduction of the daughter gives it that level of believability but before I play that video he is looking for his daughter that's sort of the bottom line of this particular story and one why is he filming himself why wouldn't he just use his phone to ring his daughter or his daughter's friend if he had their number why does he seem to be just isolated to this one area you'd assume that he'd really be running around like a man man if of course he is so traumatized by what he's seen and fears for his daughter's safety does he not know what seat his daughter is sitting in in order to go to the correct entrance or exit of the arena but then again in the ITV interview you're going to see the ticket is sitting on the table in front of them the Schumini has actually seen what he says is seen why is he not going to do security staff and saying you know that something has happened down there I think you need to go help or I can't find my daughter can you help me find her why is he ignoring them it's all about him doing this video nothing more the justification of doing this video is that he thinks that a second blast might happen and that if somebody found his phone did know that he was looking for his daughter all along it's just a very very weak reasoning behind it and even people that are commenting on the sonarticle are labeling this guy as a chancer I mean they're people that aren't even looking at this particular event in the same mindset as us and they're labeling them a fraud so to round this video off I'll leave you with the ITV interview and yeah thanks very much for watching I was just watching patiently like you do wait for your child to come out just watching people go by and then the next thing the bomb went off I literally saw where it was I could see it now went off obviously people started flying in the air and things and where went quiet and I just started screaming my daughter's name Alan I did start to record something on my phone I thought if another bomb goes off now at least if my phone was found I was finally able to know that I tried to say that hello everyone just just just run everyone just run and I've always spent anything in crying screaming and obviously just panic and then we just like oh I think we don't know what's happening it could have been anything so we just ran and I was crying everyone ran in the screaming or shoo you know trying to get out the way trying to get out I don't even know how to explain the scar it was hard to find Alan it would be eventually found each other by pinpointing the side I could have got to run my dad's was because it was all closed off you know you just looked and then the smoke those people crying you know you could see inside like what's happening you just want to get a puddle and you felt scared because it was so close to the building you still thought in the back of your mind that there was a bomb gonna go off again you see on the tail of your name tell us a tackle around the world and then for you to actually experience it it's still not a hit me pop play like I'm still just shaking like I haven't stopped shaking pop plays and it's happening you know I never thought I'd cry like that in my life but by God I could have speed lost night I could have speed I could have survived family I think that's something that's part of the world that happens maybe it's part of the world