Amber Peat's Parents: We just want you home.

[VEA]

Another missing child.

All seem above board? Hopefully she'll turn up unharmed.

http://news.sky.com/story/1494732/amber-peats-pare...

[HTP99]

Mmmm, stepdad, press conference and appeals, these events always seem to end up only one way.

[Fun Bus]

Body has been found tonight.

It's been all over local media and, dare I say it, the parents behaviour during the press conference didn't seem right to me.

I'm not a psychologist though nor am I saying they are involved in the poor girl's death.

[citizensm1th]

step dads in for a grilling

[CAPP0]

Sorry to say, and I know this is bordering on kangaroo, but the stepfather's apparent distress at the press conference was not going to win anyone an Oscar.

And saying that she simply disappeared after a row is, well, stretching things a little. Kids of that age who have a row at home tend to bugger off to their mates, pretend (to themselves) that they've run away, then go home when they're hungry and/or pissed off that the parents haven't come looking for them.

[eldar]

CAPP0 said:

Sorry to say, and I know this is bordering on kangaroo, but the stepfather's apparent distress at the press conference was not going to win anyone an Oscar.

And saying that she simply disappeared after a row is, well, stretching things a little. Kids of that age who have a row at home tend to bugger off to their mates, pretend (to themselves) that they've run away, then go home when they're hungry and/or pissed off that the parents haven't come looking for them.

Not always true, though usually. See what evidence is discovered.

[CAPP0]

eldar said:

CAPP0 said:

Sorry to say, and I know this is bordering on kangaroo, but the stepfather's apparent distress at the press conference was not going to win anyone an Oscar.

And saying that she simply disappeared after a row is, well, stretching things a little. Kids of that age who have a row at home tend to bugger off to their mates, pretend (to themselves) that they've run away, then go home when they're hungry and/or pissed off that the parents haven't come looking for them.

Not always true, though usually. See what evidence is discovered.

Absolutely, I completely accept that my comments are presuming the standard outcome, but very very sadly the (equally) standard pointers are all there, as they so often are.

[Dan_1981]

Fairly local to us so a lot of coverage on social media.

Someone has posted a video of the area where the body has been found / tent erected - it's not remote / secluded at all.

Next to a road, directly opposite a row of houses, just away from the tree line.

Edit:,in fact it seems to be right in the middle of a housing estate - East Midlands Today have published the vid on their Facebook page

Edited by Dan_1981 on Tuesday 2nd June 22:19

[hornetrider]

Very sad outcome. Can't be the parents surely.

[Moonhawk]

CAPP0 said:

.....but very very sadly the (equally) standard pointers are all there, as they so often are.

What "standard pointers" are those - perhaps weird eyes (like Christopher Jeffries had)?

Don't know why the police waste all those resources on investigations and evidence gathering - all they had to do was look at PH. This case was sewn up at 12:38.

[Fun Bus]

For those interested, and on Facebook, look up 'BBC East Midlands Today' and watch the video which shows where her body was found.

Like Dan_1981 says, it's right by a road and amongst houses.

[vonuber]

Having just had a little baby daughter come into my life I cannot imagine what these parents must have been going through. Awful.

[Moonhawk]

from the article on the BBC website:

".....police said they were not treating the death as suspicious."

[citizensm1th]

Moonhawk said:

from the article on the BBC website:

".....police said they were not treating the death as suspicious."

I hope for the family's sake this is true

[WelshChris]

How can it not be 'suspicious' when a thirteen year old girl disappear for three days only to be found dead?

[scenario8]

Funny, I just logged in to PH, spotted this thread and suspecting it would be full of posters enjoying the schadenfreude just a little too much opened the BBC News website to see what the excitement was about and spotted that quote myself. If true it might disappoint a few regular posters - and newspaper editors.

A terribly sad day for those directly affected no matter what the specific details may be.

[Deisel Weisel]

WelshChris said:

How can it not be 'suspicious' when a thirteen year old girl disappear for three days only to be found dead?

Suicide?

RIP

[Moonhawk]

WelshChris said:

How can it not be 'suspicious' when a thirteen year old girl disappear for three days only to be found dead?

It may be fairly obvious from her injuries that her death was accidental or self inflicted.

"not being treated as suspicious" may be a PC way of saying "we aren't looking for a murderer".

[Moonhawk]

scenario8 said:

Funny, I just logged in to PH, spotted this thread and suspecting it would be full of posters enjoying the schadenfreude just a little too much opened the BBC News website to see what the excitement was about and spotted that quote myself. If true it might disappoint a few regular posters - and newspaper editors.
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A terribly sad day for those directly affected no matter what the specific details may be.

If the quote is true - I wonder how many people who did cast aspersions on the family will come back and admit their mistake?

Time and again you get internet sleuths cracking a crime within minutes of it being reported......except sometimes they get it wrong - then they go suspiciously quiet.

[CAPP0]

Moonhawk said:

If the quote is true - I wonder how many people who did cast aspersions on the family will come back and admit their mistake?

For the record, I will, happily (if I remember). I wasn't trying to be any sort of "internet sleuth" or usual suspect, it's just that these things so often roll out the same way. However, let's hope for both the parents' sake that neither of them were involved.