Missing girl - how long before the media/public care?

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(With apologies to Tonker)

So a 14 year old girl goes missing in mid December and as of yet the case has attracted approximately 0.001% of the attention of the Clifton case.

So why's that then? Not white enough? It took a week to find a body in the Bristol case during which time the case was awarded an awful lot of public attention so it can't be due to the unresolved missing person element of the case.

Funny how some stories "make it" and others don't have the legs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-121134...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-121076...

Let's hope she's found safe and well soon.

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badgers_back said:

Shes run away to be with her boyfriend who her parents don't like.

Oh and to avoid school

If only the authorities/her parents/her friends had thought of that! I'll send the Met a link to your post so they can knock off early.

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anonymous said:

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Excellent news that she's been found.

My post above wasn't intended to sound as mocking as it might have read and was to some extent a reaction to the utter tripe/fantastic speculation that has been posted as fact on the Yeates thread, along with the bleedin' obvious posted as original thought. I didn't want the girl dead, I just wanted her found.

I happened to be working in one of our South London offices yesterday and a quick canvass of the staff there revealed that to a man they were full of absolute tosh were very knwoledgable on the Yeates case but none of them were even aware of the missing girl less than two miles away. That says something for the lack of attention she had been given. While I understand teenage girls (even young teenage girls) have a habit of leaving home I found this case to be interesting because she had no previous record of this sort of thing and has been out of contact for three weeks over the coldest Christmas period for years.

At what point would I have wanted a media storm to help find my daughter if I found myself in such a situation? While it may be co-incidence it is remarkable that within 12 hours of a heightened media effort the girl was found.

And yes, tonker, it's a shame her search will have cost the wider taxpayer a few quid, but I'd bet the search cost barely a drop in the ocean compared to the cost of policing the recent student marches, for example, or a multitude of other incidents we could name ad nauseum. Let's just hope the girl doesn't do it again. Or get pregnant and demand a council flat (she won't be getting one from Merton or Wandsworth councils I can promise her).