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Which news stories have stuck with you?

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PepperSteaks · 08/12/2018 18:05

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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TheWiseWomansFear · 08/12/2018 23:11

@DumptonPark that was in North America, in the US. They didn't believe him that it was active until his head blew off.

GingerInAJam · 08/12/2018 23:12

The couple whose son whose disabled and much adored son had died. They put his body in a backpack and jumped off a cliff together. It was such a tragic story.

NotScrewingUpNow · 08/12/2018 23:14

this time of year 4 years ago

Was it only 4 years ago? Thought it was 3. Doesn't matter anyway.

I was about to give birth or had just given birth (DD born 30th Dec). The story of the mother who jumped off a cliff with her newborn stuck with me at the time as it been feeling really low and was considering doing the same thing.

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JediJim · 08/12/2018 23:23

I also know the bus stop where Stephen Lawrence was killed. Hasn’t changed that much really, I used to drive London buses including in Eltham, only a few years ago.
Such a terrible murder, Neville Lawrence was so heartbroken he had to move to Jamaica.

FrankiesKnuckle · 08/12/2018 23:29

The image of the little boy washed up on a beach a couple of years ago, drowned off an immigrant boat,
Absolutely broke me for days.

Just the last few days, the 23 day old baby who died of a skull fracture and was found with multiple rib and other fractures. The parents - who each blame the other - got 10 years apiece.

10 fucking years.

imabusybee · 08/12/2018 23:36

Definitely Sophie Lancaster. I was a few years younger but had suffered physical and verbal abuse from similar groups of people as those who murdered her. Absolutely horrifying

JediJim · 08/12/2018 23:36

Growing up as a teenager in the 90s I look back with fond memories, but there was some really terrible crimes in that decade, mostly already mentioned on here.
Also Philip Lawrence, the teacher who was stabbed to death trying to protect one of his students. Mid 90s.
Knife crime in London is sadly nothing new, despite what the media says.

BikeRunSki · 08/12/2018 23:38

Holly and Jessica, Millie Dowler, Madeline McCann, Jamie Bulger, April Jones

But less high profile cases, and not a child kidnapping, I was very intrigued by Neil Dovestone.

SouthWestmom · 08/12/2018 23:38

Otto Warmbier

A little girl taken from a tent in her garden and murdered

April Jones

An horrific gang related one where two girls were abducted for telling taken to a room and abused repeatedly then taken to a park and one survived attempted murder

BikeRunSki · 08/12/2018 23:39

And the murder of Anne McGuire, the school teacher stabbed todesthrt by a pupil in Leeds. At the time, her daughter was my osteopath.

Bacardi101 · 08/12/2018 23:43

April Jones kidnaps and murder has stuck with me over all of the other horrific crimes. I’m a bit of soulless human but I cried buckets, even had a few night terrors. Poor little girl must have been terrified

SouthWestmom · 08/12/2018 23:43

Philip Lawrence

First time I realised adults were brave and fallible

224as · 08/12/2018 23:52

Bijan Ebrahimi, the man who had suffered harassment for years by his neighbours and then was beaten and set on fire and killed by the same neighbours who falsely accused him of being a pedophile.

RaspberryFlump · 09/12/2018 00:00

Actually I read it last week about an Orangutan that was taken as a baby and used in a brothel, the palm oil workers would pay £2 to have sex with her. She was shaved daily and made to wear makeup and perfume. When she was finally rescued the brothel keeper had visitation rights! The poor orangutan would scream and defecate when she saw her. This story just upset me so much.

Shockers · 09/12/2018 00:02

Raspberry... fucking hell Sad

EnglishGirlApproximately · 09/12/2018 00:24

raspberry I read that too, absolutely horrifying.
One that sticks with me I saw by accident, I was quite young maybe 7 or 8 and I got up past bedtime and sneaked into the lounge where my parents were watching the news. There was a report on ‘necklacing’ in South Africa, I can picture the mans face now. Can’t have been much more than a teenager. My mum was very upset with me for watching it in secret which I totally understand now.
Also, Hillsborough, Bradford and Heysel have had a lasting impression on me - I’m very wary of crowds in enclosed spaces and make sure I’m near an exit if I’m anywhere busy.

BitOutOfPractice · 09/12/2018 00:25

The black panther. Very local to me and absolutely terrified me

poppanda · 09/12/2018 01:00

So many of the ones already mentioned but two local ones have always stuck with me: Jessica McCagh and Jolanta Bledaite. Especially when it was reported that two young girls were the ones to find Jolanta's head washed up on the beach.

GunpowderGelatine · 09/12/2018 01:05

The Philpott children. Shook me to the core. Looking back at the parents interviews it's so clear there was more to it Sad

booksandcaffeine · 09/12/2018 01:30

Quite a few:

The Grenfell Tower fire
9/11 (I was 8 when it happened)
7/7
The Manchester Arena bombing
Holly and Jessica
Baby P (just horrific)

booksandcaffeine · 09/12/2018 01:31

gunpowder those poor children 😞

Definitely more to it than what's known publicly.

HarrySnotter · 09/12/2018 07:31

@Twoheaped The two British soldiers whose taxi took a wrong turn into an IRA funeral and the priest giving them their last rites.

This had a profound effect on me. I had never seen anything so awful or violent and it has always stayed with me. It was was, and is, harrowing.

NotScrewingUpNow · 09/12/2018 07:44

RaspberryFlump

Sick! Can't believe what's I've just read. Absolutely sickening.

cptartapp · 09/12/2018 07:45

A Preston teenager Janet Murgatroyd who was murdered after a night out and dumped in the River Ribble in the 1990's. I was the same age, and remember also wandering home alone drunk in the same town that hot summers night. The killer has never been found.

AgentCooper · 09/12/2018 07:58

James Bulger - I was only 6 but I remember finding it so scary. Now I have a toddler DS I find it unbearably sad.

Joanna Yates - I was in my early 20s, and going through a depressive episode. I prayed to God she'd be OK.

Dunblane - I was 9 and it was the only time in my life that I saw my grandad cry

Damilola Taylor - that wee boy's sweet face has never left me