Another missing person, but a very different media coverage.

[Chris Wilson]

The "aristocrat" and her lover seem to have had a totally different media coverage than the woman found in the river. This despite all the hall marks of intrigue, wealth, high society and even African cults.

It appears the missing baby that the two refused to share the location of, has now been found dead. So why has a case with Nigerian cults, a wealthy aristocratic English family with Royal connections, and a socially misfitting rapist partner of the family's daughter, on the run for weeks for no apparent reason, not been discussed and dissected to the nth degree?

 

[Chris Wilson]

Well could be down to local media as well, but I have found this being covered but not as often as NB.
I did wonder how it had gone 40 odd days without a post on here about them though, as its been in the news since they went on run near manchester.

I would have thought such a case had everything possible to pique the media and the public's interest, yet a depressed common or garden missing housewife made the front pages for weeks, not that either life was less worthy, but the media coverage was markedly different.

 

[Chris Wilson]

The premise of every Chris Wilson thread:

Rolf Harris, despite some moral shortcomings, could have taught you a few things if that's your "work"

 

[Chris Wilson]

Did you not make a thread at the time OP? A missed opportunity.

A very sad case, with a horrible ending.

No, in the grand scale of current affairs neither case caused me sleepless nights or anything beyond mild "Poirotesque" interest, if i am to be brutally honest, but the media coverage variation of the cases is interesting to me.

 

[Chris Wilson]

wasn't that like 33 years ago when he was 15?
Maybe if they hadn't been some media manhunt for 2 people, who at the time had committed no crime other than being in a relationship against her wealthy families wishes... then they would have been living a normal life and the baby would be fine.

What's the real story of why they went on the run from her aristocratic family? it seemed like they may have been fearing for their safety.

threats made against the man? the woman scared she would be abducted and imprisoned by her wealthy relatives at some mansion kept as a prisoner?

but ofcourse it's all because the guy raped someone when he was 15, why do you think these biased stories have been in the newes for months? some rich guy related to her has been paying for the media coverage obviously.

I doubt we will ever know the real truth unless she speaks to the press about it, obviously the guys a rapist scumbag because that's the perception the media wanted to give, so whatever he says will all be lies init...
seems the woman had plenty of chances to call for help if she needed to escape from the "rapist" shopping trips at tescos, hotel stays and food banks...

That's more like it!! See, there's a discussion, high emotion, a dialogue and controversy to be had in this story, yet some of the media seemed to mid page it....or plain ignore it.

 

[Chris Wilson]

If they were not chased by the police at the request of the family the baby would have been ok.

I find it strange they ran away yet, 200 officers were assign to this case.if it were anyone else would they even bother to assign 2 officer's.

3 days they found the baby, yet could not find a woman's body in a smaller area for a month.

"the couple refused to tell police where the baby was, sparking a massive hunt across a wide area of the Sussex countryside."

Perhaps the police were shamed over their (in my opinion perhaps more than a little unjust) criticism over not finding a corpse in a dirty river in the timescale the general public deemed acceptable, so they pulled out all the stops on this one, but have received little applause so far? There are other scenarios that could be mooted, but there's one.

 

[Chris Wilson]

In a case like this where a couple refuse to divulge the whereabouts of their baby when it's obvious they know or could at least come up with a plausible explanation of what's become of it, but choose to remain obstinately silent, with time possibly slipping by for its survival, assuming it's not already dead, should the UK police be able to beat it out of them?

 

[Chris Wilson]

The task force 2oo detectives were working on this a month ago. The figure is mostly more.

Dad who vanished with aristocrat partner and newborn is convicted rapist

200 police officers are working on the case, as concerns grow over the welfare of the newborn baby

www.google.com

Anathema as it may be to the anti royalists and the "everyone is equal" brigades, having the strong probability of accessing current members of the Royal household from your phone's address book does carry some very enviable clout, which, rightly or wrongly gets things moved up the police forces' "to do immediately" lists.

"In life, who you know is at times as important or even more important, than what you know". My old form master circa 1969.

 

[Chris Wilson]

Interesting. I hope it was because of the child rather than some toff being able to pull resources due to.

Hope springs eternal* Tony, good luck

From:





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Alexander Pope published An Essay on Man in 1734.

An Essay on Man is a poem published by Alexander Pope in 1733–1734. It was dedicated to Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, (pronounced 'Bull-en-brook') hence the opening line: "Awake, St John...".[1][2][3] It is an effort to rationalize or rather "vindicate the ways of God to man" (l.16), a variation of John Milton's claim in the opening lines of Paradise Lost, that he will "justifie the wayes of God to men" (1.26).[4] It is concerned with the natural order God has decreed for man. Because man cannot know God's purposes, he cannot complain about his position in the great chain of being (ll.33-34) and must accept that "Whatever is, is right" (l.292)

 

[Chris Wilson]

Hope they get the absolute book thrown at them. Though with their connections / status, no doubt they'll just have to do a couple of hundred hours basket weaving and all will be forgotten.

As one is the daughter of aristocracy, the other an alleged member of a dodgy Nigerian cult, described below, "their" connections seem somewhat disparate to me. As Bowden suggested earlier, choosing to rebel against a wealthy father and family to such an extraordinary extent seems to have been her downfall and her baby's demise.

Missing aristocrat's dad 'wants police to investigate Nigerian cult she joined'

Constance Marten spent six months at the 'cult' which her dad said 'brainwashed' her.

metro.co.uk

 

[Chris Wilson]

Seems a body of a baby has now been found

It was found yesterday as I mentioned in the opening post in this thread, the police said to expect news the family would not want to hear.

 

[Chris Wilson]

on the topic of searching times - RIP - surprising it might take 24 hours to discover a car that left the road, in seemingly, not so rural/mountainous an area.

Hundreds attend poignant and powerful vigil for crash victims

Eve Smith, Darcy Ross and Rafel Jeanne died in the crash and two others have been seriously injured

www.walesonline.co.uk

who were also reported missing. Over the weekend friends and family of the three women and two men had been desperately appealing for any help to try and find them. Then in the early hours of Monday morning came the sad news that the VW Tiguan they had been travelling in had been found.

Not that uncommon, sadly, and at the time of this tragedy neither of the B words can be utilised in mitigation.

Police failure to respond may have left couple in car crash for days

Police investigate whether officers failed to respond to call of Bannockburn crash that killed John Yuill and left Lamara Bell seriously injured

www.theguardian.com

 

[Chris Wilson]

crash site duel carriageway/roundabout

https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2023-03-06/three-found-dead-in-search-for-missing-five-after-night-out

Pistols or swords?