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This is the perhaps worst thing I've read. God almighty.

157 replies

HolyHellaciousHeck · 25/07/2023 17:59

[Massive content warning for abuse and child death]

This story is appalling. Every part of it is worse than the previous part. This poor, poor girl. What a horrible short life and awful death she had. God almighty.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66300209

Amber Niven

Brother found guilty of Amber Gibson's murder

Connor Gibson has been convicted of sexually assaulting and killing his 16-year-old sister in 2021.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66300209

OP posts:
corlan · 25/07/2023 18:05

The abuse didn't even stop when she lay dead.
May she rest in peace now.

SophiaElizabethGrace · 25/07/2023 18:06

This is astonishingly sad. The poor girl. Jesus Christ.

RIP.

YoSof · 25/07/2023 18:07

My god that’s awful.

May Amber finally be at peace now x

GillianMcQueef · 25/07/2023 18:09

I'm honestly not the type of person to get upset by news stories - of course I can feel empathy when bad things are reported and can say how terrible they are. But this is one of the very few stories that have had an almost visceral effect on me. One of the most awful, awful things I've ever read. God bless her.

honeyandfizz · 25/07/2023 18:10

RIP poor poor girl.

Busornobus67 · 25/07/2023 18:16

Its similar to the rape in london where the homeless man asked to have a go after.
Even in the rugby player situation the man asked to join in. (Obviously consensual with rugby player)

continentallentil · 25/07/2023 18:23

Poor girl - and it seems that she had got through so much shit relatively in one piece before her life was taken from her.

While there are men responsible for this, it’s not helped by a society and care system in collapse.

BringMeTea · 25/07/2023 18:24

I knew it would be this. That poor poor girl. What a shit life and death. RIP Amber.

Whattodo112222 · 25/07/2023 18:25

This utterly turned my stomach. Some mightily sick people in this world.

YorkieTheRabbit · 25/07/2023 18:26

I read the article and was appalled at what that poor young woman went through.
How many of these vile men walk amongst us is truly shocking.

Baneofmyexistence · 25/07/2023 18:31

I read this and thought the same. What a short, tragic life she had. Let down by everyone. Poor girl, I hope she is in peace now.

BingoBastards · 25/07/2023 18:35

@Busornobus67 I think I vaguely remember that, what was the name?

Poor Amber, so many sick people in the world. She should have been safe and protected

Roselilly36 · 25/07/2023 18:38

So sad and upsetting to read,that poor girl. RIP Amber Flowers

thatsnotmylifeitstoocrazy · 25/07/2023 18:39

Poor, poor girl. Rip Amber

MillWood85 · 25/07/2023 18:40

Sometimes there just aren't any words.

Poor girl Sad

HeyJudeNanananana · 25/07/2023 18:46

Absolutely awful

Even in death women aren't safe 😢😢

onlynotafan · 25/07/2023 18:47

😞

Ghosttofu99 · 25/07/2023 18:51

Yes it’s awfully. One of the worst things I’ve read too. Makes you wonder if the world is just full of vultures if something so terrible can happen to you and the next person to come along is just as bad. Although bizarrely a part of me feels like the second person was worse. Who does that.

MaidOfSteel · 25/07/2023 18:57

I remember this awful crime happening, not far from here. Then hearing it was her own brother arrested was beyond belief. Poor child. May she sleep peacefully now.

tt9 · 25/07/2023 19:09

sadly she is not the only one... children in these circumstances are routinely abused. sickening

Imicola · 25/07/2023 19:12

Yes, it's truly awful all that poor Amber had to suffer. Heard it on the radio this evening and I could hear the emotion in the reporters voice, she said she'd never had to cover such a horrific story and I can't recall ever having heard such a dreadful set of events. So so sad.

Riapia · 25/07/2023 19:14

I ever wonder to see men wicked,
but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Jonathan Swift.

When you think men have finally sunk as low as is possible, you have underestimated them.

Willmafrockfit · 25/07/2023 19:14

her brother,
their dad,
terrible

Riapia · 25/07/2023 19:15

Never wonder.

Lwrenagain · 25/07/2023 19:22

Absolutely harrowing.
That poor poor girl.