Five-year-old April Jones kidnapped in Machynlleth, Mid-Wales

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Oh god this is so depressing.

 

[bi0boy]

Some tweets now saying body found!

It's twitter! It's bollocks!

 

[elbows]

Useless press conference. And the police did not officially release his name.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Why? Of course police should name suspects if it helps with the investigation.

Innocent until proven guilty?

 

[elbows]

Innocent until proven guilty?

Not the same as anonymous until proven guilty.

 

[1927]

Innocent until proven guilty?

i somehow doubt that he will ever stand trial!

 

[Gromit]

Yeah, yeah, same old story. What tensions?? I suppose the locals all talk in that 'coded' language of ours and about you, I suspect. Listen, the locals have put up with years of 'incomers' (your word), coming in and seeking an 'alternative lifestyle' and the 'good-life' and, thus, transforming a town that was once simply a rural </snip>

The locals don't care too much for those coming because of the local alternative energy research centre. Labeling them wacky hippy types.

But if you aren't a wacko crusty they are friendly enough.

I used to know quite a lot of people there.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Not the same as anonymous until proven guilty.

Look at what happened when that girl went missing in Bristol... the papers will be all over this.

 

[killer b]

not sure if this is the best thread for a discussion on the merits of open justice, but i'll take the opportunity to call you a moron sleaterkinney.

 

[sleaterkinney]

not sure if this is the best thread for a discussion on the merits of open justice, but i'll take the opportunity to call you a moron sleaterkinney.

Likewise, if you think naming suspects* is a good idea.

*Or whatever the legal term is for people who haven't been charged.

 

[killer b]

i think it's essential, not just a good idea, regardless of the behaviour of the gutter press. but as i said, not the thread for it.

 

[Firky]

not sure if this is the best thread for a discussion on the merits of open justice.

 

[sleaterkinney]

I don't, I think people have the right to anonymity unless they have been charged and I'll leave it at that.

 

[weltweit]

This has made me wonder about the low key implementation of Sarah's law. Not the right thread perhaps.

 

[editor]

This has made me wonder about the low key implementation of Sarah's law. Not the right thread perhaps.

It may well prove to be completely irrelevant too.

 

[Tankus]

May also cause a miss trial, even if guilty

 

[JeffWode]

The locals don't care too much for those coming because of the local alternative energy research centre. Labeling them wacky hippy types.

But if you aren't a wacko crusty they are friendly enough.

I used to know quite a lot of people there.

The Center of Alternative Technology - exactly. I know a couple of people who worked for them. Didn't stay long. They're not the laid-back hippies you might think they are - more corporate clique and done nothing much for the actual community itself.

 

[bignose1]

Their what is usually usually worse?
In an unrelated matter, I the whole bottle.

Estranged husbands...fucked up selfish cunts who take the whole family with them...
dont get the second part re bottle.

 

[gabi]

I sense hefty lawsuits ahead if this guy whose name the keystone cops have leaked to the press is found not to be involved.

If he is involved I expect epic van-banging on a scale not seen since Soham.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Estranged husbands...fucked up selfish cunts who take the whole family with them...
dont get the second part re bottle.

Sorry, I was making a joke about your misspelling (or rather using the wrong) they're.

Probably not the time or place.

 

[Santino]

I saw five minutes of the news coverage this morning and it had already turned into horrible, mawkish grief porn.

 

[gabi]

I saw five minutes of the news coverage this morning and it had already turned into horrible, mawkish grief porn.

I just saw that 'volunteer' being interviewed on the beeb. have to say i was cringing.

 

[killer b]

I sense hefty lawsuits ahead if this guy whose name the keystone cops have leaked to the press is found not to be involved.

on what grounds?

 

[gabi]

I think the precedent might be the Bristol murder a year or so ago where that dude with the weird eyebrows got his name leaked and subsequently sued.

altho in this case they seem fairly sure it's the right guy.

 

[Clair De Lune]

Press are all over the place, anyone could have given them the mans name.

 

[silverfish]

I just saw that 'volunteer' being interviewed on the beeb. have to say i was cringing.

its always the interviewed "volunteer" or step uncle that does it

 

[gabi]

one guy had driven from manchester and looked well fucked off that the cops had told them to back off

 

[Dan U]

I sense hefty lawsuits ahead if this guy whose name the keystone cops have leaked to the press is found not to be involved.

If he is involved I expect epic van-banging on a scale not seen since Soham.

it doesn't necc follow that the police leaked it (although obviously it is likely)

it is a small town, people may have seen him get nicked, seen the police around his seized car, seen his house being turned over and gossip spread.

i am more surprised at the media naming him just now tbh, as you imply they have been burnt before.

 

[Pickman's model]

one guy had driven from manchester and looked well fucked off that the cops had told them to back off

yeh, now what's he going to tell the dole?

 

[ChrissyJones]

Just so distressing. I doubt she will be found alive now. Just horrendous