Missing girl - Tia Sharp
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GTIR

Original Poster:

24,741 posts

291 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-191593...

I hope to god that this girl has just run off because her mum wouldn't buy her a Willy-i-am CD.

However, when articles quote the "uncle", and "step-dad as the last to see them I just think the worst.
Also, why didn't she have a phone (she's 12yo FFS) and why was she allowed to go on her own?

It all smells fishy. frown

Maybe I'm becoming a miserable negative sod. I hope so.

Puggit

49,488 posts

273 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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As soon as I saw the uncle had carried out an appeal years of reading PH brought me to the worst conclusion.

PeanutHead

7,839 posts

195 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Read the story in the metro this morning, thought the same about the uncle making a plea to the public.
Hope it turns out OK.

essexplumber

7,756 posts

198 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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There's a pic of the poor girl making stupid gang signs and next it a pic of her mum and partner (in The Sun) couple that with the fact that she is out shopping alone at the age of 12 and it all reminds me of poor little Shannon Mathews.

If I had a 12 year old daughter she wouldn't be out shopping without an appropriate adult and I'm not sure I'd even let her have her own mobile phone, I bet she had arranged (using said phone) to meet someone while out shopping. I just hope she returns safe and well.

Dan_1981

18,018 posts

224 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Why is it that some missing children make national news like this but other cases don't even get reported locally?

I'm always surprised to see how many children go missing without even the slightest of mentions.

fido

18,672 posts

280 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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"New Addington" "grandmother's partner".
{shakes head}
Sorry.

Mobile Chicane

21,867 posts

237 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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PeanutHead said:
Read the story in the metro this morning, thought the same about the uncle making a plea to the public.
Hope it turns out OK.
My thoughts as well.

longshot

3,286 posts

223 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Apparently her phone was at home on charge.

It makes me shudder every time I see a story like this.
I just hope she is found alive and safe somewhere but it often isn't the case.

Odie

4,187 posts

207 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Im an uncle to a 13yo and if she went missing I wouldnt be making TV appeals, i'd be too busy out looking for her...


Puggit

49,488 posts

273 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Odie said:
Im an uncle to a 13yo and if she went missing I wouldnt be making TV appeals, i'd be too busy out looking for her...
It seems to be a police test - they set up the grieving relatives to see how they act.

GTIR

Original Poster:

24,741 posts

291 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Puggit said:
Odie said:
Im an uncle to a 13yo and if she went missing I wouldnt be making TV appeals, i'd be too busy out looking for her...
It seems to be a police test - they set up the grieving relatives to see how they act.
yes
Everyone can lie and some people are very good at it.

Put them in a situation they are not used to, oh I don't know - in front of a load of reporters and TV cameras for example - and the cracks start to appear. That's what happened with Shannon Matthews' parents and those idiots that killed their own kids, lots of sobbing but no tears and unable to look at the camera, especially her.

If the family are involved there is more of a chance she is alive.

Pints

18,450 posts

219 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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longshot said:
Apparently her phone was at home on charge.

It makes me shudder every time I see a story like this.
I just hope she is found alive and safe somewhere but it often isn't the case.
They reported yesterday that it was her mother's phone, which she'd let her daughter use, which was at home on charge.

Bullett

11,145 posts

209 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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longshot said:
Apparently her phone was at home on charge.
Yeah right. A (nearly) teenage girl leave her phone at home? Most teenagers seem to get the shakes if they are not in the same room as their phone.

Roo

11,504 posts

232 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Puggit said:
As soon as I saw the uncle had carried out an appeal years of reading PH brought me to the worst conclusion.
Thought exactly the same thing when he was on the news last night. Even the wife mentioned it.

dandarez

13,922 posts

308 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Let's all hope she turns up safe and sound.

The interesting part is the mobile phone. We all know what kids are like with mobiles.

Mrs Niles said:
“I can’t understand why she wouldn’t have her phone with her.

“When she used to come around here she’d sit there with the phone glued to her ear.

“Sometimes I’d have to tell her to put it down because she was driving me mad.

“I have heard that her phone was on charge, but that’s so strange to me because when she stayed at mine she would charge it at night. She never went anywhere without her phone.”

Fingers crossed it's just a strop and she gets back home safe.




davepoth

29,395 posts

224 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Dan_1981 said:
Why is it that some missing children make national news like this but other cases don't even get reported locally?

I'm always surprised to see how many children go missing without even the slightest of mentions.
Somehow the journalists get wind of there being a suspicion of something other than a runaway child.

pidsy

8,627 posts

182 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Sky news top story this lunchtime-

"stepfathers agony over missing girl"

Its a terrible time when the immediate thought is that someone in the family is responsible - like in so many other cases.

Super Injunction

99 posts

180 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Dan_1981 said:
Why is it that some missing children make national news like this but other cases don't even get reported locally?

I'm always surprised to see how many children go missing without even the slightest of mentions.
It is strange - there is a girl now stated as missing where I live. Local news only at the moment yet I think the story about Tia came out sooner after she had gone missing. Maybe there is some knowledge behind the scenes setting the scope of the appeal frown

http://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/local/appeal...

CAPP0

20,602 posts

228 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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dandarez said:
Fingers crossed it's just a strop and she gets back home safe.
She's been missing since Friday hasn't she? Unfortunately I can't see a 12 y.o. stropping for 5 days, tbh.

bigandclever

14,257 posts

263 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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I hope she turns up safe and well.

idle speculation I've got an awful feeling 'SH' has something to do with this, but of course that is only based on conflicting newspaper accounts.