Just this really. i don't live locally there anymore but reckon that, if i still did, this thing would have got to me over this whole past week, as a walking about alone a lot woman. Just awful. wtf has happened exactly i hope it all comes out in full. Is she definitely dead then?
I’ve been out to take my car for it’s MOT and walked back, stopped in to buy some groceries. Everyone is talking about it and everyone seems really quite shocked. Even round here where the OB don’t have much support, that’s the thing that’s making people raise their voice and wave their hands about, that it’s a cop.
Two different people said that the only explicable reason they could fathom for a copper to be involved in her assumed death was if it was as a sex game gone wrong. Otherwise it was just... and then they trailed off and shook their heads. Two separate people volunteered that, with all appropriate caveats about it being awful under any circumstsnces. I suppose because it seems really extreme for a copper to be responsible for an abduction and disappearance, possible murder. It says something that people are grasping for ways to make it explicable. (Although apparently for some, it makes no odds that it was a copper...)
As I said, I cut through those estates all the time and there are plenty of places that aren’t covered by CCTV,. Even on a warm night with people out of doors and windows open, there are patches where you’re alone and unobservdd
If it was a regular route for her, was someone on the spy for her?
One bloke said that there was a lot of unusual rowdy activity on Wednesday night on the estate behind where they’ve blocked it off. That sounds like hindsight to me, and unlikely to be part of this story but maybe someone who was driving loops and breaking windows saw something.
A woman said that the Next Door app is saying that there is some kind of human trafficking angle, something about Dover. Again, that sounds unlikely to me. Chatter filling a vacuum. I guess it’s triggered by this Deal and Ashford connection. And maybe some kind of nasty “white slave trade” nonsense in the background.
Speaking just for myself, it made me wonder how long it would take for for me to be missed if I was abducted locally. I was up late thinking about Sarah and her family, finally went to bed and had horrible complicated anxiety dreams til I woke up early thinking about Sarah