We're running through the chief suspects ahead of Monday's climactic episode of Broadchurch. Today it's the turn of murder victim Danny's dad, Mark Latimer.
Mark Latimer is the murder victim Danny’s father. He is
married to Beth, his childhood sweetheart, with whom he started a relationship
when she was just 15. The couple married young and they also have a teenage
daughter, Chloe. Mark runs a successful plumbing business and employs his best
friend Nige Carter. Mark also plays five-a-side football; the team also
includes Reverend Paul Coates. He has a close network of friends, including
Nige and the Millers – he and Joe will go out together with the boys, and Mark
was part of the paintballing trip when a gang of them went out together in Olly
Stevens’ boat.
Mark has a reputation for a hot temper – he chased paparazzi
photographers away from his house and there seem to have been challenges with
both of his children Chloe alludes to him having seen off previous boyfriends,
and his reaction to the discovery of Dean is no less calm and considered. Some
of Danny’s social media updates suggested that he and Mark could have a
sometimes fraught relationship, and during his interview with DI Hardy, Tom
Miller claimed that Danny had told him that Mark had hit him on at least one
occasion.
Early on in the investigation evidence was stacking up
against Mark. His fingerprints were found at the murder scene and CCTV footage revealed
him lurking in a car park. He was unwilling to explain his whereabouts on the
night in question as his excuse that he had been out on a job until 3am quickly
fell apart. Even getting Nige to tell the police that they had been out
together was shown to be a lie. Finally Chloe intervened and implored hotelier
Becca Fisher to tell the truth – that she and Mark were together on the night
that Danny was killed. Also, evidence showed that Mark had a legitimate
professional reason for being at the hut and that Susan was either lying or
mistaken
Mark seems to have been eaten up with guilt since Danny’s
murder. He has also spoken of his sorrow over what he has done to Beth,that he
has destroyed the beautiful teenage girl that she once was. Is this guilt over
his failure to his family, being elsewhere when he should have been protecting
his son? Guilt towards Beth for taking their relationship for granted? Or is
Mark showing remorse for a far more terrible deed that he has committed?
Mark was also genuinely shocked to discover that,
unbeknownst to him and Beth, Danny had been accompanying him on late night
hunting trips.
It would be difficult to give a motive to Mark for killing
Danny. Possibly his temper got the better of him. Maybe Danny discovered his liaison
with Becca. Maybe Mark is mixed up with something else that Danny uncovered.
However, motive or not, there still remain two hours where Mark’s whereabouts
is unconfirmed on the night of Danny’s death.
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The final episode of Broadchurch will be shown on Monday 22nd April at 9pm on ITV
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