Which news stories have stuck with you?

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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?

Oh and Elizabeth Fritzl too. A complete mindfuck.

Lots of these. Elisabeth Fritzl. I thought of all the things I had done with my life while she was underground. How she survived is beyond me.

The terrorist attack at the Bataclan theatre in Paris.

@BikeRunSki I remember this, it wasn’t too far from us.

Another couple for me

Andrew Gosden. I wonder what happened and hope he is somewhere happy and living his life.

Claudia Lawrence.

Genette Tate's disappearance and the Yorkshire Ripper.

Holly and Jessica
Madeline McCann
James bulger
Hillsborough disaster
West's

this:
www.thesun.co.uk/news/1292094/doctor-who-heard-wife-being-raped-and-daughters-being-burned-alive-devastated-after-killers-execution-is-overturned-for-being-cruel/

Oh so many.
James Bulgers murder. Liverpool has never really been the same since. Bootle shopping centre still has an eerie feeling to it.
Nicky Allen. If my memory serves me rightly I don't think they ever found her killer.
Sarah Harper.
Sophie Hook.
Baby Peter.
Francesca Bimpson.
To name just a few of these little angels
Shannon Matthews.
Jaycee Lee Dugard. She was found alive after 18 years. She was abducted on her way to school at 11 years old. .
Missing children such as Madeleine McCann and Ben Needham. You can see the pain etched on their parents faces. If you know the worse has happened to your child. You can grieve but when you don't know one way or another must be like living in purgotary. Not knowing if they're happy or sad. If they're in pain and even if they are found one day, would they remember their parents.

Disasters.
2004 Boxing Day Tsunami
1985 Bradford Fire
1989Hillsborough
Kings cross fire 1987.
9/11 Bombing
7/11 Bombing.
Merlyn Nutall. A women who was held prisoner tortured and raped after she was abducted on her way to work back in 1992. By some miracle she survived.
The Manchester Bombings.

This poor bloke I think his name was Alan who got accidentally trapped in a giant oven in work and burned to death.

Madeleine went missing when my baby was a few days old. I find it so odd to think if she were found shed now be a teenager and would presumably be unlikely to have a happy ever after with her parents :(

Kirsty Foster. Liam Hogan. Both such unfathomable and needless deaths.

Christi and Bobby Shepherd, who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a Corfu hotel.

Orkney- the allegations of satanic abuse and children being removed at night by social workers

OJ Simpson

Challenger

A gas explosion where the whole family were killed

The motorway car crash where the family of 6 were all killed when their people carrier got crushed between 2 lorries

The Jodi Jones murder, it’s controversial but I think there may be a chance her murderer is still out there

The man who was shot on his doorstep and no one was ever charged

Jill Dando

Emma Caulfield still unsolved

The kings cross fire.

The Russian sub that sank and they wouldn’t let anyone help with the rescue

The stockline factory explosion, they heard knocking but never found anyone else alive

The Suzanne Capper murder was very similar to a murder in the US around the same time. Although Suzanne’s killers got relatively long sentences, they should never have seen the light of day again. I think they are all out of jail now.
Kelly Anne Bates murder. Truely dreadful, some people just deserve to be hung.

The murder of Suzanne Pilley. Her body still hasn't been found. Too many other women who have been murdered by men to count.

Awwlook, reference James Bulger, a colleague of mine was a bus driver in the north west. He said he used to sometimes drive past the Strand Centre in Bootle. I suppose it would always feel eerie, even after all these years.

Poppi Worthington. I've followed it since the beginning as my DD was the same age and have read the SCR. Ya harrowing, the fact that her rapist and murderer got away with it (not sorry to say it, of course he did it) and there were so many failings at so many stages by authorities that can't be remedied is heartbreaking. It wouldn't have happened to a middle class family

James Bulger. My brother was the same age (and called Jamie which all the media called James) and I am the same age as his killers. I think that was my first exposure and realisation that horrible things can happen to innocents.

Damilola Taylor. He was ten when he died, stabbed in a tower block stairwell.

Beslan siege. This sounds silly, but I was about 22-ish at the time, and it was probably the first time I’d really thought about ‘terror’ happening outside of America and possibly the U.K. I don’t know why! I remember watching it unfold on tv, unable to look away but just crying. I think I called in sick to work.

Rhys Jones. Age 11, playing on his bike in Liverpool not too far from where I live, was shot and killed. The absolute horror of watching that unfold on tv.

And that little Syrian boy washed up on the beach. I’ve never been as inconsolable as I was when I saw that picture. I have a little boy of my own who was about the same age. I think it’s a ‘but for the grace of god’ type thing that relating it back to my own world is very effecting. Or maybe just because it’s awful.

Needless to say, I don’t read or watch the news much anymore. I can’t take the awfulness. I can’t bear it.

NicoAndTheNiners I came on here to say Omaraya Sanchez, who I think is the girl who got her leg stuck and slowly died partially submerged after the earthquake.

I’m surprised no one has mentioned lee rigby either, seeing his murderer covered in blood with a knife in his hand will always stay with me.

I mentioned Lee Rigby earlier in the thread. I remember seeing it on the news and switching off because I didn’t want my son too see that.

The Batavian affected me deeply also, mostly because we also spent the evening in a theatre, which is really rare for us, and the thought of how tiny they are, inescapable, you are really sitting ducks... it was horrifying.

The Suzanne Capper case was truly awful.

Dismayed that her torturers are alive and well and enjoying their freedom.

Christopher Laverack and Michael Barnett. I was at my sister's house and we were listening on the radio about Michael. When the media announced that he'd died, we both started crying. Still, to this day, I cannot fathom how or why they couldn't rescue him.

@FrankiesKnuckle 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.

Sickening isn't it. I live locally and know people who know them. Horrific.

Aberfan. I was little at the time, the age of some of the children who died. I don't think I'd realised at the time that children did die, IYKWIM.

Also, the Birmingham pub bombings as I grew up about three miles from the city centre. There were all sorts of other minor incidents there when I was a teenager, and it was a horrible atmosphere to grow up in.

9/11 - all those people stuck in the Two Towers knowing they were going to die. I'll see that image of the couple jumping hand in hand forever.

For a happier one, the Berlin Wall coming down. I remember watching it on TV with my then OH and us both blubbing.