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To think these people should not be given their 15 minutes of fame using Baby P's death

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VirginMary77 · 05/12/2011 22:08

I feel SICK reading this

www.people.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2011/12/04/our-life-was-ruined-after-moving-into-baby-p-s-horror-home-102039-23608000/

OP posts:

maypole1 · 05/12/2011 23:39

If we demolished every house were a child was abused I am afraid their would be many places for any one to live.

We have free will she should not have moved in if that was the case and she is using this poor boys death abuse how did it end up in the press someone must have rang them

Get0rf · 05/12/2011 23:39

I agree with reeling.

Not being unsympatehic or unfeeling, but the history of grim death surrounds us all.

festi · 05/12/2011 23:40

they had no idea prior to moving in, that is the point of the story.

ffs the child was brutally murdered.

squeakytoy · 05/12/2011 23:40

the house didnt commit the crimes, or have any power over the scum who lived there that did..

they should have been told though, because with the inevitable media frenzy, it was going to be local knowledge where that house was, and this is one of the reasons why people get to remain anonymous, not to protect them, but to protect the innocent people who get caught in the crossfire through no fault of their own..

fragola · 05/12/2011 23:41

I feel sorry for them - the house shouldn't have been relet at that time when there could be a risk of vigilante attacks and it shouldn't have been relet without telling the tenants what had just happened there.

reelingintheyears · 05/12/2011 23:42

^^ GetOrf.
I agree.

We don't know what happened in the 'space' we're now living in.

Get0rf · 05/12/2011 23:42

I have not read the link - I am not reading the bloody People. But I agree that the tenants should have been told prior to being allocated the flat, and given the choice to take it or wait for another vacant property.

reelingintheyears · 05/12/2011 23:44

Again with GetOrf.

festi · 05/12/2011 23:45

dont understand how you can comment if you didint read it .

Get0rf · 05/12/2011 23:48

right back atcha.

From the synopsis of the story on this thread, they are not happy to have been allocated Baby P's old house.

We could sit here and make the rest up ourselves, frankly, it is in a shitty tabloid.

I have agreed with one point - that in the case of vigilantism and/or a sense of grisly distate the tenants should have been told.

Moominsarescary · 05/12/2011 23:54

Festi the other case for us was Victoria clambie, I couldn't work in child protection, I'd never bloody sleep

festi · 06/12/2011 00:03

we looked at victoria climbie and two or three different ones.

EightiesChick · 06/12/2011 00:15

But surely the point is that yes, we don't know what's happened in our current houses but then we're very unlikely ever to know. In this case the events were very highly publicised and extreme in their awfulness. I don't think it's a 'normal' unpleasant event in the way that many houses will have had people die there. Would someone be expected to move into Josef Fritzl's old house and, I don't know, convert the basement into a playroom or a granny flat or something? I would find it very disturbing and would not want to live there or in the Baby P house. (I'm also not clicking on the article, btw)

I agree that it's a shame that houses stand empty in a housing shortage, but in that case I would like to see all the other run-of-the-mill houses made fit for habitation again, on a larger scale. It's not like this one house will make a difference. Better to turn it into something else like 25 Cromwell St.

JamieComeHome · 06/12/2011 06:24

I wouldn't trust a word of what's written in that piece. Sensationalist crap

lifechanger · 06/12/2011 06:34

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JambalayaWarmMincePie · 06/12/2011 07:00

I didnt read it as fifteen minutes of fame - I read it as a family trying once and for all to clarify that it was nothing to do with them.

The mother moved home to Blackpool to get away from the stupid people who still thought they had something to do with it.

Moominsarescary · 06/12/2011 07:02

Yes they can be, I lived in an area where a pedophile ring was uncovered, it was the biggest family envolved case in the country, going back through generations of family members.

When they moved the family living behind us because people found out and petrol bombed the house, it didn't stop vigilante groups targeting it. In the end the council stopped housing people there

Bucharest · 06/12/2011 07:20

Yes,people are that stupid, lifechanger, remember when paediatricians had their windows smashed in?

A lot of people get off on piggybacking other people's horror stories.I remember on Babycentre (where, at th time, I admit to hanging out)some madster did a youtube video of BabyP all the photos of him and newspaper articles set to Hallelujah. Madster I tell you.

I can understand the people living in BabyP'shouse not wanting to. I can't understand them not knowing before they did though.

GypsyMoth · 06/12/2011 08:44

It was before the 3 involved had been named/pictures released

Everyone thought this couple was 'them'. And police uncovered firm plans from vigilantes of a planned petrol bombing

porcamiseria · 06/12/2011 10:19

Oh dear

SnapesMistressofMerriment · 06/12/2011 11:07

OP YABU they need to set the record straight and it is an interesting story that highlights relevant issues.

TroublesomeEx · 06/12/2011 11:22

People in the street thought they were the killers?

He had a "horrid feeling" about a banister?

Give me strength! Some people will say anything.

I can understand them not wanting to live there. Not sure why it's in the papers though...

limitedperiodonly · 06/12/2011 12:26

People are being really mean about this couple. Does no one wonder about how newspapers like the People come up with sensational stories week after week?

Their quotes are quite mild and their complaint seems to be that neither Haringey nor the housing association warned them that rabid peedo-hunters might be after them because of mistaken identity.

That seems fair enough to me but the People wouldn't have found it worthwhile on its own.

The rest of it is People spin and embellishment. Has anybody outside a tabloid newsroom ever used the words: 'house of evil' and 'it sends a shiver down my spine'?

He may well have said: 'There was also a banister by the stairs and I remember having a horrid feeling about it and taking it off the wall because it was loose and dangerous' only for the reporter to omit that last bit because it didn't fit the story.

She only had to say: 'Did you know Peter's back was broken when he was slammed into it?' to be able to stitch the two together when he answered: 'Really?'

TroublesomeEx · 06/12/2011 13:02

limitedperiodonly You make a very good point about the way the couple's comments might have been manipulated, and everything else really!

But had the People or any other shitty newspaper contacted me in similar circumstances the only quote they'd get from me would be "not interested" and, if that didn't work, "fuck off".

They'd find it difficult to spin that into anything!

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