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‘Just seemed like a normal person’: Ian Wilkinson on Erin Patterson

Lenthall asks how Wilkinson would he would describe Erin:

Just seemed like a normal person to me... when we met, seemed quite friendly. We never had arguments or disputes.

She just seemed like an ordinary person.

I would say our relationship was friendly, amicable. It didn’t have much depth. We were more like acquaintances. We didn’t see a great deal of each other.

Heather would have seen Erin more than me, talked to her more than me. But we didn’t consider that the relationship was close.

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