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Oh no. Not another little Madeleine.

(86 Posts)
JO4 Tue 02-Oct-12 11:18:33

here

Greatnan Sat 06-Oct-12 22:33:43

I am told there are sad people who spend their time going round forums trying to cause trouble. Good job we never get anyone like that here.

Greatnan Sat 06-Oct-12 22:37:01

The police have now told the parents that April is dead. How very tragic.

Elegran Sat 06-Oct-12 22:48:12

Mmm

feldmarschallin Sat 06-Oct-12 22:51:41

Really dreadful, Greatnan, and impossible to know how to deal with this kind of news. Mums of our generation taught our children about "stranger danger" but (and I know we shouldn't pre-judge this particular case) it's clear that the danger didn't and doesn't come from the stranger. And now we are grans, how do we warn our grandchildren and whom do we warn them against? Surely encouraging them to be suspicious of everyone isn't the answer? Very heavy heart this evening.

absentgrana Sun 07-Oct-12 09:29:27

I read in yesterday's newspaper that April had been allowed to stay out playing later than usual as a special treat because at the parents' evening at her school she had been given a "glowing report". How terribly ironic and desperately sad.

crimson Sun 07-Oct-12 14:01:35

Then again [not wishing to detract from the tragedy of the event] the awful man was probably biding his time and would have found another opportunity at a later date.

whenim64 Tue 09-Oct-12 08:19:20

Reading updates on the search for April Jones this morning, and wondering why the police won't say where they think she may have been hidden, then the realisation hit me from photos of police taking vehicles through fields of mud, and a striking sentence describing him as an ex abattoir worker. I now understand why they fear they might not be able to recover her remains. How dreadfully harrowing this has been. I can't begin to imagine how her parents will ever come to terms with losing her in this way.

MaggieP Tue 09-Oct-12 09:00:37

OMG, what a dreadful thought whenim64, that would make some sense of this tragedy .

Greatnan Tue 09-Oct-12 10:35:31

If he refuses to give any information there won't be much the police can do. Ian Brady never revealed where he had buried Keith Bennett's body.
He will almost certainly have to be kept in solitary confinement if he is found guilty - your 'normal' criminals don't like child murderers. It must be hard for the police officers who are having to deal with him.

crimson Tue 09-Oct-12 14:31:27

Did they not say as wll that he had worked at a leisure centre? I wonder if he acted suspiciously and lost his job there?