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GTIR
Original Poster
19,072 posts
135 months
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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.  Maybe I'm becoming a miserable negative sod. I hope so.
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Puggit
29,476 posts
117 months
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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.
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PeanutHead
7,548 posts
39 months
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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.
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essexplumber
7,283 posts
42 months
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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.
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Dan_1981
9,553 posts
68 months
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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.
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fido
9,383 posts
124 months
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"New Addington" "grandmother's partner".
{shakes head}
Sorry.
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Mobile Chicane
14,005 posts
81 months
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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.
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longshot
921 posts
67 months
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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.
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Odie
3,647 posts
51 months
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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...
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Puggit
29,476 posts
117 months
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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.
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GTIR
Original Poster
19,072 posts
135 months
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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.  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.
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Pints
14,677 posts
63 months
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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.
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Bullett
3,491 posts
53 months
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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.
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Roo
5,844 posts
76 months
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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.
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dandarez
4,471 posts
152 months
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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.
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Guam
15,248 posts
137 months
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Roo said: Thought exactly the same thing when he was on the news last night. Even the wife mentioned it. Snap I hope I am just jaded from being on here too long!
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davepoth
19,878 posts
68 months
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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.
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pidsy
1,969 posts
26 months
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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.
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Super Injunction
84 posts
24 months
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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 http://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/local/appeal...
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CAPP0
5,814 posts
72 months
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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.
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