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Ive been thinking. (shocker…. I know)
What will the future effects of these cases bare on the police and publics efforts when the next child (and we know there will be one) goes missing?
Are the police going to take from this recent case the facts that they should have been looking at the parents from the start rather than look for the child?
Are the public going to be so cynical that there only concern will be not IF but WHEN it’s revealed that the families are involved, they are incarcerated, never to be released again?
I worry terribly that someone innocent in the future will go missing through nobodies fault and the police/public who have been through this last year will go all out looking for blame and vital time will be lost.
I know Ive named the McCanns in this and that case is still unclear, but peoples opinions have been more than aired on there culpability in the matter of there daughter’s dissapearance. And the two combined do leave a very bitter taste.
I just hope to god myself or anybody I know has to experience it.
What a legacy the Matthews and Co have left. I worry the days of people pulling together will now be very long and distant memories.
I just hope people dont think every case in the future will be like this. :shock:
Police will always look at family members first. In most cases(though not all) they turn out to be guilty. This one is pretty unique though.
What was the motive? Was there any motive, apart from the Mother getting cold feet about leaving her bf, and spinning a crazy yarn about the disapperance? As I said it’s pretty unique.
I blame the press for turning it into a media circus. It becomes a story and not real life and people lose interest.
Oh and have you got any evidence to back up your story about you thinking cus i’m really finding it hard to believe :lol:
:wink:lol chickeman
I was thinking back to other cases like James Bulger, Sarah Payne, Hollie and Jessica from Soham. All victims of third parties. I know each case was difficult, its not really the circumstances Im comparing, but the fact that they all concern abduction of some sort.
I cannot imagine as a parent what it must have been like to go through what they went through, but really am concerned that because of recent events some poor family somewhere will and will also face the onslaught of finger pointing not only from the public and media but perhaps from the police. That on top of a missing child is a horrendous thought.
Lets hope that this will not be the case, but I can see that some people will always be cynical no matter what the circumstances.
I hope I never have to go through anything like this, this latest twist in the Matthews story will leave a bitter taste for a lot of people.
I Know what ur saying Shaz but at the end of the day any innocent parents in that situation would only appreciate the police’s thoroughness if it means getting their child back into their arms i know i would sit in a police cell and have my finger nails pulled with pliers under interrogation if it meant they could clear me and look in the right places for their safe return, but yes hopefully that wouldnt be at the risk of them not looking elsewhere at the same time.
yeah poli i hear what you’re saying but i think shaz is more concerned about the vital period – where the cops should be out concentrating on finding the missing child, rather than thinking hmm i wonder if the parents had anything to do with this? The first 24 hours are the most precious in tracking down evidence, we’ve seen this in the McCann saga..if the proper precautions arent taken the child could be taken out of the country and may never be found.
yeah thats very true the first 24 hours are the most crucial so i would hope they wouldnt not search even if they did suspect the parents, i doubt just 1 case like this would stop a proper investigation going ahead …. lets hope so anyway
@~Pebbles~ wrote:
yeah poli i hear what you’re saying but i think shaz is more concerned about the vital period – where the cops should be out concentrating on finding the missing child, rather than thinking hmm i wonder if the parents had anything to do with this? The first 24 hours are the most precious in tracking down evidence, we’ve seen this in the McCann saga..if the proper precautions arent taken the child could be taken out of the country and may never be found.
But hasn’t it also been proven that blaming the mother was the right thing to do all along in this instance? It’s not their fault she neglected to tell them information which would have given them a good place to start. And I can’t imagine that every cop in the force thought ‘Let’s not bother looking or even asking if anybody knows her usual haunts etc. Let’s just decide that it was the mother and sit around scratching our arses until she tells us something’
Perception isn’t always the same as fact.
@johnboy25 wrote:
But hasn’t it also been proven that blaming the mother was the right thing to do all along in this instance? It’s not their fault she neglected to tell them information which would have given them a good place to start. And I can’t imagine that every cop in the force thought ‘Let’s not bother looking or even asking if anybody knows her usual haunts etc. Let’s just decide that it was the mother and sit around scratching our arses until she tells us something’
Perception isn’t always the same as fact.
But the mother wasnt blamed ALL ALONG. We only found out about her involvement a week or so after the child had been found. She didnt neglect to tell the police about information which would have led them to shannon on day one, she deliberately withheld it to save her own skin. It appears that she was planning to leave her current screw and trade him in for the uncle, but she bottled out. He swiped shannon, she was fingerprinted at the scene within the timesclale of her disappearance, but failed to tell anyone that she had been there. Whether or not she knew he had taken her remains to be seen.
She didnt neglect to tell the police about information which would have led them to shannon on day one, she deliberately withheld it to save her own skin.
Isn’t that pretty much the same thing though? Fact remains that while she was praising the police for their efforts, there was one piece of information which could have been acted on and avoided all the publicity and the concern, not to mention all the excess work for the police (door to door, paperwork etc – the stuff a lot of folk don’t realize goes on behind the scenes – before you even start on time spent on the actual search itself)
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