Psting in AIBU for traffic - Bristol mum and newborn have gone missing, please keep your eyes open if in bristol!

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Apologies for posting here but the Avon and Somerset police are running an urgent appeal for the safe return of Bristol mum Charlotte Bevan and her four day old baby, who have gone missing from a central Bristol maternity unit and haven't been seen for over 12 hours. PLEASE keep an eye out for her and phone the police if you see her - she's white, around 5'8, dark hair, wearing a black top, black trousers and hospital slippers or flip flops. Her baby is wrapped in a stripey blanket.

Hoping and praying for a safe return sad

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/03/mother-baby-missing-bristol-maternity-hospital

I'm not making any assumptions, but would women aid contact the police if ( and that's a big if) she decided to flee DV.

I haven't seen anything new on the news. I hope they are safe and warm, wherever they are.

I really hope she is found safe and the baby is ok.

I do get a feeling we are not being given the full story here though.

Of course we're not being given the full story.

Only the parts which might help find her.

"I'm not making any assumptions, but would women aid contact the police if ( and that's a big if) she decided to flee DV."

I wondered if DV was the issue. He may seem charming to all her friends and family but nobody apart from her knows that there may be a completely different side to him and this was her chance to escape. I hope she is safe.

Yes of course WA would contact the police! The police would aid her in her desire to escape an abusive relationship.

The poor woman has mental health issues according to the press..where on earth could she hide though?

she has nothing on her feet really! She's got a tiny baby....someone is either hiding her or she is dead. It's awful to say but it's not as though she's in any shape to escape and get away on her own...she's quite distinctive looking too.

I agree. Think her family need to prepare for the worst. There was no hesitation as she left, it was very purposeful

She might have gone to a friends? It's possible she was picked up in a car..there's no footage of her outside in the street. Maybe that's why she didn't bother with changing....she was in a hurry.

Just lying here in bed thinking about them. So very cold here tonight. I do hope someone is protecting them.

I think she met someone. I really do. No WAY would she have got far without turning up on CCTV somewhere nearby. Far to noticable and easy to spot....tall...all in black with a baby in a distinctive blanket.

Met up with someone she knows I mean.

They've found a body in the Avon Gorge

Body found in a gorge...

Oh no

Sad task ahead for those police officers now

Oh no that's horrific.

Guessing they need to keep searching for the baby

Oh ....no....

Holding out that tiny ray of hope that baby was stashed somewhere warm and dry.

where is the baby? :(

Can't sleep after hearing this news. Rip

Poor, poor woman.