Verdant 001 013

This statement relates to my previous attendance at the property at ██ ████████ Road.

I have been asked to provide more detail about the instructions I received through the Verdant app.

I've had time to think about it since I was stopped at the house.

There were things I was asked to do that didn't really have anything to do with cleaning.

I was instructed to adjust electrical equipment.

Unplug something and reconnect it.

Reset a socket.

Things like that.

Sometimes I was told to move household objects.

A blue mug from one shelf to another.

A photograph turned towards the wall.

A glass moved from one side of the kitchen to the other.

Once I was told to leave the bathroom window open by about three inches.

The instructions were always very specific.

They were also always small things.

At the time, I assumed they had come from the people who lived there.

When I returned the following week, I sometimes noticed that something I had moved had been put back where it was before.

I never saw anybody while I was there.

I didn't think that was strange because the whole point of the access window was that the property was meant to be empty.

I have also been asked about the glass I mentioned in my previous statement.

I had moved a glass before as part of one of the instructions.

On my final visit before Mrs Caldwell disappeared, there was a full glass of water sitting on the kitchen floor.

That was different.

Nothing was ever left like that in the house.

I photographed it through the app.

Within about two minutes I received an instruction telling me to empty it, clean it and put it away.

I did.

I didn't question any of these things at the time.

I've been thinking about them since.

I have now been told that Mrs Caldwell was living at the property alone.

I didn't know that.

I thought her husband lived there with her.

There were men's clothes in the wardrobes. Men's shoes. Two toothbrushes. Men's toiletries in the bathroom.

I thought one person in the house was asking me to move things and the other person was putting them back.

That's what I thought was happening.

If I'd known Mrs Caldwell was living there on her own I would NOT have done those things.