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Frik
Original Poster
11,954 posts
112 months
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DonnyMac
3,044 posts
72 months
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Hopefully not enough information to form an opinion; Father refused visitation rights? Please; fingers bloody crossed.
I don't want to start the thread with blame, but... What on earth was a five year old doing outside at 7.30 when they should be being read a book and tucked up for the night; isn't it dark at that time now?
Clearly, you shouldn't attribute blame on differing family lifestyles as I'm still amazed that 15-20 miles from London you can find yourself in a scene from the Darling Buds, but I just cannot imagine my 6 yr old being allowed out in London, well, ever.
As mentioned, fingers crossed.
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robuk
462 posts
59 months
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Machynlleth is not a big place at all and is quite rural in terms of getting to and from.
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XG332
3,766 posts
57 months
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OT my favourite fish and chip shop is in Machynlleth.
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XG332
3,766 posts
57 months
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OT my favourite fish and chip shop is in Machynlleth.
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XG332
3,766 posts
57 months
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OT my favourite fish and chip shop is in Machynlleth.
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mrmr96
11,958 posts
73 months
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^ We get it.
Hope she's found safe and well soon. BBC news were saying she was seen getting into a van, but they didn't give a description of it - which I thought was odd. Surely they'd want people keeping an eye out for it? Or if they said "White Ford Van" it would cause more problems?
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172ff
1,405 posts
64 months
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She's at Jimmy Savills house?!?
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Superhoop
2,489 posts
62 months
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The piece on the news this morning just described the van as 'light coloured'
The bit I found strange was, after reporting she had been seen getting into a van, they then said that police and locals were searching the local area - Surely if they should be searching for the van, which lets face it, could be miles away.
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Changedmyname
4,756 posts
50 months
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People still leave the doors open and often leave the keys in the cars,around here (mid Wales)so a youngster playing outside at that time is quite the norm.
I hope she dosen't come to any harm.
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Puggit
29,536 posts
117 months
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Sadly I must echo DonnyMac's thoughts. I live next to a playground and see children as young as 2 without adults (but with older siblings around 12 years old) on an almost daily basis. Some of them have been brought from the village, a few hundred yards along an A road, in pushchairs. Despite being able to see the playground from the house my children (aged 4 and 6) don't go out alone, yet. I hope she's found safe and well 
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Megaflow
3,345 posts
94 months
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DonnyMac said: Hopefully not enough information to form an opinion; Father refused visitation rights? Please; fingers bloody crossed.
I don't want to start the thread with blame, but... What on earth was a five year old doing outside at 7.30 when they should be being read a book and tucked up for the night; isn't it dark at that time now?
Clearly, you shouldn't attribute blame on differing family lifestyles as I'm still amazed that 15-20 miles from London you can find yourself in a scene from the Darling Buds, but I just cannot imagine my 6 yr old being allowed out in London, well, ever.
As mentioned, fingers crossed. Exactly. I mean WTF is a 5 year old girl doing out by herself after dark. I realise that it's not her parents fault she got abducted just because she was out after dark, but at 7.30pm in the middle of Wales, I'd wager it is properly dark to, not just dusk.
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Davel
6,874 posts
127 months
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Just hope to god that she's found safe and well.
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M3333
1,541 posts
83 months
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Some guy on Sky news was just saying 'the family must be devestated' 'we are all thinking of them at this time but will leave them alone'
Weird thing to say for a girl that thus far is only 'missing'.
Really hope they find her safe and well.
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tonker
43,846 posts
117 months
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I hope she's OK, but I do wonder whether it's time for another Shannon Matthews.... - it seems a bit neat for someone in such a small place to see a 5 year old get into a van, but the person who saw her didn't recognise the van or think it was odd - certainly not enough to at least record the oddness of it.
Do we know of the relationship status of the parents and whether either of them have access to a van (and where they both are...)
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petemurphy
2,957 posts
52 months
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heres an idea for a website - somewhere everyone with cctv in the area can upload their footage when something like this happens and then people on the interweb with time can search it and tag sightings with diff levels of likelyhood.
saves police time and realises my dream of being in spooks..
eg could find any light coloured vans here
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Sheets Tabuer
12,144 posts
84 months
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tonker said: I hope she's OK, but I do wonder whether it's time for another Shannon Matthews.... - it seems a bit neat for someone in such a small place to see a 5 year old get into a van, but the person who saw her didn't recognise the van or think it was odd - certainly not enough to at least record the oddness of it.
Do we know of the relationship status of the parents and whether either of them have access to a van (and where they both are...) She was out cycling with a friend, the friend said she got in a van. I assume the friend was around the same age so perhaps they didn't see it as odd. It's going to be a world of pain ascertaining the facts from a 5 year old witness.
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Frik
Original Poster
11,954 posts
112 months
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The worst case scenario of a random snatching is by far the least likely scenario to happen. Fingers crossed for a good outcome.
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Twincam16
27,239 posts
127 months
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Frik said: The worst case scenario of a random snatching is by far the least likely scenario to happen. Fingers crossed for a good outcome. Certainly her apparent willingness to get in the van (surely the friend would have described a struggle if there was one) suggests she knew her abductor.
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fathomfive
6,889 posts
59 months
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petemurphy said: heres an idea for a website - somewhere everyone with cctv in the area can upload their footage when something like this happens and then people on the interweb with time can search it and tag sightings with diff levels of likelyhood.
saves police time and realises my dream of being in spooks..
eg could find any light coloured vans here You could tie in with a manufacturer of pitchforks and flaming torches too 
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