Which news stories have stuck with you?

[PepperSteaks]

When I was a little girl there was a story in the news that I vaguely remember about a little girl standing on the Christmas tree lights barefoot and dying. I can picture what I thought the girl looked like so clearly all these years later and think about it often.
Do you have any news stories that you still think about?

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Syria

Madeleine

Reallyanotherone - that's not too far from me that happened. Agree it was absolutely appalling how it was handled! Nobody should find out on bloody FB what that person was thinking I don't know!

Drcoconut - I just think kids now aren't being told honestly the consequences of unprotected sex. I understand it's been done in an effort to remove the stigma for those who are HIV+ but I think it's creating more sufferers needlessly.

I've been overly honest with dd. I've nursed AIDS & hepatitis patients - it ain't pretty and it's bloody painful!

The story a few years ago of that pregnant young mother with 3 kids. Her partner left her for another woman, so she drowned each of the children at their home and then jumped off a multi storey car park.

The first one I can remember making me was when I was around 14 and newborn baby Abbie Humphries was taken from the hospital by a woman dressed as a nurse, I found the CCTV of the abductor walking through the corridor chilling.

Plus most of these mentioned here.

Also Stephen Hilder and Gareth Williams, two deaths which raised questions.

I was in bed late one night with my then 8 month old daughter when I read a small news piece on Teletext about a 3 year old British child that had gone missing from her holiday accommodation in Portugal, obviously the next day it was major news. Sad there has been no resolution all these years later.

I lived in the same area of Edinburgh as Caroline Hogg. She was three years older than me and I will forever remember that period of shock and horror in the community.

The murder of the banker in Nairn (Alistair or Alexander something?) who was shot dead on his doorstep for no apparent reason, will always stay with me. I cannot imagine what his family have been through, not knowing why it happened and that his killer is still out there.

Obviously 9/11 and specifically the people who jumped. I can't even begin to think about the sheer terror and desperation they must have felt. I had taken it for granted that everyone was well aware of the horrors of that day but was recently talking with younger colleagues, who had been children at the time and were just shrugging it off as "just another terrorist attack" which happened a long time ago. It made me realise how that incident changed the world so that a whole generation see these attacks as something normal. Even so, some of them hadn't realised the scale of the fatalities that day or that people had chosen to jump from the burning buildings. I was 22 at the time and remember going to work the following day, wondering why people were just chatting and getting on with things as normal - it seemed that the world I knew was gone and I was terrified by the prospect of war.

I hadn't known about the murder of the British soldiers at the IRS funeral. I have just read about it as a result of this thread and feel chilled and sick to the bone.

Any news story which involves the premeditated torture or murder/execution of another person really gets to me. The ISIS beheadings, Ken Bigley etc. I suffer anxiety attacks just thinking about what the victims went through and how one human being can plan and actually do this to another. Even worse when it involves children.

I'd never heard of Suzanne Capper, it's absolutely awful what happened to her and just chilling how a group of people just suddenly decide to behave like that.

The photographs of Omayra Sanchez.is is just haunting. How awful it must have been to have been there but unable to save her.

The story that always stuck with me was Sally Clark who was jailed for murdering her two young sons, her conviction was later overturned but she then died of alcohol poisoning. I suppose my gut feeling was that she was innocent which is why I remember it.

Jamie Bulger - I am the same age as his murderers and I remember watching the news and thinking they must be much older boys as I couldn't comprehend someone the same age as me doing something so unspeakable.

Hillsborough - again, as a child of the 80's and living in the North West it was something too horrible to understand whilst it was all over the news but it has always stuck with me. When I think back to how young some of the victims were it makes me shudder.

Not in my lifetime but my Mums (she was 6/7) and it has stuck with me since she told me about it. Aberfan. A whole generation wiped out in seconds.

Suzy lamplugh
Genette tait... went missing aged 13 on her bike
Maddy McCann
Moors murderers
Viv I’m going to spend spend spend Viv Nicholson
Rolf Harris Stuart hall Jimmy savile paedophilia
Diana’s death
Tie sucking fergie
Kennedy assisination
Twin towers

Oh yes Jill dando murder

"It made me realise how that incident changed the world so that a whole generation see these attacks as something normal" my dd was a babe in arms when it happened. There's really SO MUCH that was changed as a result of this event. I find it really hard to get my head around the fact she has basically grown up in a very different world to the one I did. There's obvious things like airport security that really is jarring for those of us who remember flying pre 9/11 hell if you were going to EU or traveling in uk you rarely even needed a passport!

But there's other more subtle things too, the way news is reported, security in banking and shopping online, how crowded events are handled now... For dd all completely normal she knows no different whereas I find I'm often disconcerted by yet another change that's occurred as a result of how the "war on terror" (which I think historians will recognise as ww3).

I certainly remember when it happened thinking it was the start of another ww. My dad & ex were army, dad had just retired at that time. Ex (then husband) phoned & said to stay home, that he didn't know when he'd be home & was unlikely to be that night. People often - and I see it on mn, seem to clearly remember that day obviously. But less often do people comment that for weeks after there was fear of another incident occurring and many cancelled travel plans especially if it meant flying. Even quite early on ex & dad were sceptical that USA intelligence had NO idea of any threat before hand and both remain sceptical now if not more so.

The student who was brutally raped and Murdered on a bus in India

Hisashi Ouchi. Don't Google if you're faint hearted but the things they did to him were criminal

My curiosity got the better of me on that one. I've gone cold.
Please take it from me. Do not Google.

May have been mentioned as im still reading, but a man was convicted yesterday for the Babes in the Wood murders.

I remember the Charlie Hebdo incident. I was on maternity leave with DS and remember watching the news - they were searching outbuildings in France.

April Jones - We were on honeymoon when the story broke that she was missing. It was also accompanied by the news about Jimmy Saville. Also the man who did the space jump - felix tanembaum?

I don't think I will ever get over Grenfell Tower. I couldn't sleep for many nights. The horrific thought that it could have been prevented if the tenants had been listened to. Absolutely shocking and awful and criminal.

Katrice Lee. Katrice went missing from a supermarket in Germany, her father was in the Army there. Whilst out shopping with her mother and aunt, Katrice vanished. It was her 2nd birthday. She never made it home to the birthday she was supposed to have.
Despite investigations over the years by the British and German authorities, no trace was ever found of her.

I think Grenfell is the most shocking thing, for me, in the past decade. I also could not sleep for several nights thinking about it.

9/11 was the worst for me I still cannot hear about it without immense sadness for all the lives lost that morning and subsequently with various cancers and leukaemia due to exposure of chemicals and possible radiation.

The last two posts are connected for me. It's true that many thousands of survivors of 9/11 have been diagnosed with illnesses from chemicals, e.g. brominated dioxins. But at the time, the US government kept saying there was no toxicity from the towers. It was years before they started admitting to it. The same is happening with Grenfell: the government and council is claiming toxicity was 'low' but they haven't yet done any analysis to know. At a recent meeting, they tried to claim that 9/11 was a different kind of disaster, but in terms of toxicity there are actually many parallels.

@sonlypuppyfat I remember that. We got married at the church down the road from where she was found on the day it happened. Her poor mother :(

And James Bulger. Gives me chills even now.

Leah Betts

Posted too soon. Leah Betts, I'm convinced she is the reason I never felt compelled to try drugs despite the normal peer pressure and opportunity.