AIBU to wonder why the Olympics seem to be more important that a missing 12yr old girl ?

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Ok, so I know team GB are doing great in the Olympics but come on for f**ks sake ITV....we've had about 4 Olympic stories before Tia Sharp has been mentioned ! Am I the only one that thinks a little missing girl is more important than the Olympic bloody games !?

Stuart Hazell has been arrested on suspicion of murder, which I think means people should now stop talking about it - speculation and spreading of information (particularly about his background) on the internet could be seen as prejudicial if/when it goes to trial.

Gawd, just how outraged would Sara Payne have been if the first thing the police did was waste time searching her home for Sarah. And the police would have no right to force a search without reasonable suspicion. There is no one right way to proceed in these cases.

Awful story. RIP Tia.

just how outraged would Sara Payne have been if the first thing the police did was waste time searching her home for Sarah

Highly unlikely as Sarah was out playing with siblings who saw the van, and the Paynes were on holiday not at home.

Doesnt alter the fact the majority of murders, child or otherwise, are committed by someone you know.

The fact that there was no conformed sightings and no cctv of Tia after she was ment to have left the house should have been a bloody good reason to search the house.

Sarah Payne was different as Jumping said.

" If you have any concerns let someone know maybe one day you could prevent a tragedy like this. "

thanks spidering i will, i have already suffered a nasty tragedy where people were too afraid to think the worst of someone, and everyone was " scared" to talk in case the PC police shut them down for being a bit mean etc.

Thats why i much prefer that people talk and get info out there than be shamed or frightened into not saying anything at all.

Lots of people who have worked in the field and who are proffesionals have critised the way the search was conducted!

A young girl - leaves without her PHONE????? odd

She leaves house but is seen by ONE person, and NO ONE else! On no cctv foootage!

she spent the whole night alone with a man who does have two criminal conivictions....and was never seen again??????

It was all there for them on a plate!

I dont see why one team wasnt combing woods while another was simply checking out the house?

We don't know where the body was. Do you not remember the murder case from a number of years ago where the body was found, days if not weeks after disappearing, hidden behind a bath panel?

It's all well and good to say "it was obvious", but the police can only arrest someone if they ave actual evidence.

I would assume a search of some sort would have taken place. even a very brief scoop. I supose they cant really turn a hpuse upside down and put the sniffer dogs in early on whith no cause to do so.

normaly a search of the home is taken place before a missing persons report can be put into action. I know of a parent who reported a child missing from the school gates where required to go home with police to search the home before the missing persons report could be completed.

it is perfectly possible that the body wasn't there when they first searched it.

apparently so nancy66, however realisiticly how would someone be able to move a body with such police presence 24 hrs a day, there was a police and press vigil.

Has anyone other than GM, GMBF and neighbour arrested? Are they all still in custody?

Apprently its usual in a missing child case as one inspector put it - " to clear the ground under your feet first".

IE a proper thourgh search of the house first.

A top to bottom search with all kinds of dogs to smell all kinds of things in the first instance.

We used to live in a terrace house, and from our loft you could access the roof space of the house on either side. In cases like this anything is possible

According to some reports, the body was found in the attic and they are investigating whether it was moved between houses. Apparently the row of terraced houses are linked via access holes in the roof space.

More arrests.

The Grandmother and another man aged 39 as an accomplice.

Perhaps it would have been better if they had. Shannon was found alive. :(

I think it wrong to criticise the police in such a difficult case. They may well have been very suspicious from the begining but without clear evidence they had to go slowly to avoid mucking it up by spooking the suspects.

If the police dogs were taken in at the start Tia's scent would be all over the place as she stayed there regularly. The team they took in were probably dogs trained to find cadavers & by that stage they could be more thorough.

Easy to be wise after the event.

I would guess the police were not looking for a body when they first searched the house.

They might already have guessed she was dead, I expect they did.

Even so, it doesn't matter much how long a body waits.

If there was a possibility that a child was tied up or locked in somewhere, maybe bleeding, soffacating, dehydrating....... they need to be found fast, therefore it make sense to me to put all resources to lookingfor a live child first and formost, then coming back later and searching more thouroally for a body.

Do you think the "body" might not have been their when they first serched and it was moved their after they thought all was clear and serchers were already finshed

according to the police statement they say it was human error that caused them to miss the body in the first search...or words to that effect, but thay have appologised and seem to be taking reponsibility for that.

I would have thought they would have forensic clues if the body had been moved and they would not have issued the statement of responsibility that it had been missed. The police are sayimg it was missed I think that is what happened.