Linear park

Yeah.

And he throws the bike down on the tarmac at the top of a cul-de-sac and then flees or runs, and it seems the trajectory of travel shows or indicates he runs between two houses into Wasteground, close to Linear Park, some Wasteground and a public park behind the houses on Northwood Road in the north of the city.

And

just to reinforce, because the term cul-de-sac, not everybody will be aware of it, it just simply means it's a blind-ended road.

More than that, they said, we actually have CCTV and they could show the police officers who were doing door-to-door, oh, by the way, this is on our phone, an app, and you can see on the app that they had... got the clip of Noah being naked.

And what was clear also on the app, and should have been clear to the other officers, there were two other angles, which is when a side angle, which didn't really help, and there's one which is, for our purposes, very significant, a angle which reflected and captured part of the storm drain, which we heard of earlier, where Noah was later to be found, the entrance to the storm drain.

Just to reinforce, the back camera overlooked the back of Linear Park and the kind of waste ground behind it, which is where the entrance to the culvert was, or the bottom end of which...

Noah was found eventually six days later.

He then dismounts again.

There's a terrace of houses, but he passes between a gap in two of the houses and proceeds into Linear Park.

That's really the last bit we know about what happened.

I mean, that's actually the last thing we know for certain about anything in all of this.

And 506 meters further down, his body was found.

So how did he get into the storm

drain? How did he know it was there? Did he know it was there? Did he come across it by accident? What happens in Linear Park? Is Linear Park, for example, a meeting place for illicit sex activities or drug activities? Do we know any of this?

Noah didn't know where that storm drain was.

And 506 meters further down, his body was found.

So the certainties in this case are he was last seen around 6.05, 6.08 on Sunday, the 21st of June, 2020, naked, running between two houses towards a wasteland and beside Linear Park, 150 meters away from a storm drain, where six days later, his body was discovered.

Well, while the police and the community rescue service, a volunteer service, were looking for Noah, Sean McCary, who's the head of that, walked around the back of the houses, pretty close to where Noah was last seen, and spotted this storm drain, this structure, which is part metal, part concrete.

And this is covering and encasing this one meter diameter concrete pipe.

You weren't going to get too many abrasions.

But there were options where he could have shouted because you go under the shore road and it's a bit, it's kind of discreet under the shore road.

So it goes from Linear Park and then it's quite steep and then it flattens out under this road.

You can hear the traffic underneath and now you understand...

And I'll give you a couple of anecdotes.

Here, in front of the City of Dreams, there is a park called Linear Park.

And this Linear Park was identified in the Berry Lake Rejuvenation Plan, which is one of the two plans applicable to Colombo at this time.

So, the one is the Commercial Development Plan for Colombo, the other one is the Berry Lake Yeah, rejuvenating plan or something like that.

I don't know.

Maybe slightly different.

So, this linear park, when Mr. Gotabe Rajapaksa was the defense secretary, no, president.

Okay.