Teenage girl missing in Bristol....

Teenage girl missing in Bristol....

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mjb1

2,556 posts

159 months

Saturday 28th February 2015
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Maybe the father's just having a nervous breakdown? It can't be any easy thing to cope with.

GloverMart

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11,815 posts

215 months

Saturday 28th February 2015
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mjb1 said:
Maybe the father's just having a nervous breakdown? It can't be any easy thing to cope with.
Yes, true that.

Baryonyx

17,996 posts

159 months

Saturday 28th February 2015
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GloverMart said:
Yep, confirmed on the BBC....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-31672...

Another strange quote, this time from the girl's grandfather who says that the father won't be helping with the search due to his "frantic emotional state".

scratchchin
Has the article been edited? I couldn't find the quote.

GloverMart

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11,815 posts

215 months

Saturday 28th February 2015
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Baryonyx said:
Has the article been edited? I couldn't find the quote.
No, I don't think so. I've followed it on Twitter and it was mentioned on there. Sorry for giving the impression it was in that article. boxedin

Wings

5,814 posts

215 months

Saturday 28th February 2015
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What was significant to me was the removal from her home of her mobile phone, laptop and tablet, the same all without chargers, and apparently all of the same not used since their removal. Also was the odd quote from her mother, that Rebecca would not visit her and her brother, without being accompanied by her best friend.

It may also be significant that a search was carried out today at Vassels Park, the same some distance and also outside of the area of Rebecca's home.

tleefox

1,110 posts

148 months

Saturday 28th February 2015
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There's lots of strange elements to this. One I read in the week was a quote from the step-mother along the lines of "we're still trying to work out whether anyone else in the house at the time saw her leave"

How hard is that to work out?

superkartracer

8,959 posts

222 months

Saturday 28th February 2015
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Its the FATHER !! the brainless on PH said so .... him and his twin brother.

torqueofthedevil

2,074 posts

177 months

Saturday 28th February 2015
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Saw the interview earlier. Looks very guilty.

Re the two arrests - is it beyond reason to say that the police, could arrest some people who seem a bit suspicious but who they don't actually think did it, to further monitor their real suspect's reaction?

They must use that as a tool?

GloverMart

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215 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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torqueofthedevil said:
Saw the interview earlier. Looks very guilty.

Re the two arrests - is it beyond reason to say that the police, could arrest some people who seem a bit suspicious but who they don't actually think did it, to further monitor their real suspect's reaction?

They must use that as a tool?
I guess they could do but, and I suppose this is far fetched, what is stopping them saying they've arrested two people but not actually arresting anyone to elicit some reaction from whoever is guilty?

Spotted this too on Twitter earlier from the Daily Mail online...

https://twitter.com/Ak2oid/status/5717819617500856...


Edited by GloverMart on Sunday 1st March 00:34

Pints

18,444 posts

194 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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GloverMart said:
I guess they could do but, and I suppose this is far fetched, what is stopping them saying they've arrested two people but not actually arresting anyone to elicit some reaction from whoever is guilty?

Spotted this too on Twitter earlier from the Daily Mail online...

https://twitter.com/Ak2oid/status/5717819617500856...


Edited by GloverMart on Sunday 1st March 00:34
Just me who pictured a scene or two from Breaking Bad when seeing that photo? frown

Skywalker

3,269 posts

214 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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Pints said:
Just me who pictured a scene or two from Breaking Bad when seeing that photo? frown
yes

Hope that we are wrong.

superkartracer

8,959 posts

222 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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torqueofthedevil said:
Saw the interview earlier. Looks very guilty.

Re the two arrests - is it beyond reason to say that the police, could arrest some people who seem a bit suspicious but who they don't actually think did it, to further monitor their real suspect's reaction?

They must use that as a tool?
No, false arrest is a crime .

torqueofthedevil

2,074 posts

177 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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superkartracer said:
torqueofthedevil said:
Saw the interview earlier. Looks very guilty.

Re the two arrests - is it beyond reason to say that the police, could arrest some people who seem a bit suspicious but who they don't actually think did it, to further monitor their real suspect's reaction?

They must use that as a tool?
No, false arrest is a crime .
Ok maybe it doesn't happen much I am only speculating. But rules are bent a little at times when needed and it would be very easy to cover yourselves - basically - we have plenty of reasons to suspsect so and so, but just incase we are wrong - make sure u are paying particular attention to out original suspect.

It is very interesting the things that psychologists look for when somebody is lying - ad had been said earlier - the terminology they use "she was a good girl" instead of "is" and referring to murder or rape etc. The reaction when you tel them that you have caught somebody and you think you have got the right person must be so telling. If imagine body language that would be very telling followed by a load of questions that would further reveal their guilt.

allergictocheese

1,290 posts

113 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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No, the police can't arrest people they know aren't involved to measure the reaction of the people they suspect are.

Doing so would be a criminal offence.

Don

28,377 posts

284 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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This is really fking bad. I've never seen one of these turn out well. Poor girl.

HTP99

22,544 posts

140 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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It always amazes me at how slapdash someone is after murdering someone; her laptop has been found in undergrowth in the local area, assuming it was disposed of there by her killer (assuming she has been killed), if that was me I would do my hardest to make sure any personal items couldn't be found, I would break up the laptop and dump bits miles away or in a river, or local industrial bins, or on a bonfire, I'd remove the hard drive and try my best to destroy it.

So often, obvious things are found and found very easily and quickly.

Anyway back to the arrest thing, perhaps no one has been arrested and they Police are just saying it to gauge a reaction?

Mezzanine

9,212 posts

219 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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You are thinking too logically and calmly about it all HTP.

Most abductors/murderers are clearly not normal, rational thinkers by dint of doing the murdering!

kev1974

4,029 posts

129 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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I think at the moment it is just "A" laptop was found, not necessarily "HER" laptop. Don't believe I've seen anything confirming it was definitely hers.

TVR1

5,463 posts

225 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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torqueofthedevil said:
Saw the interview earlier. Looks very guilty.

Re the two arrests - is it beyond reason to say that the police, could arrest some people who seem a bit suspicious but who they don't actually think did it, to further monitor their real suspect's reaction?

They must use that as a tool?
As others have said. This is definately no go. However, arresting someone in order to question someone on the basis of ruling them out, after questioning, is acceptable. It can and does happen. IANAL but do have a degree in CJ. My interest in the subject was sparked many years ago for a particular reason.Later, in my 20's I had an incident-not in this Country BTW and In the days of no CCTV, of having to account for my movements-it was very difficult to prove a negative. Can't say I disagree with it though-even though it did make me raise a concerned eyebrow- just in the wrong place at the wrong time-or not, as it turned out. Bodies in The Barrel case, South Australia, if any one is interested.

jules_s

4,285 posts

233 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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Laptop is not related to the case

Police are searching a house in Southmead