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To wonder why there's not been more news coverage *trigger warning*

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Flossy856 · 04/07/2018 13:10

Why is the story of this poor girl so far down all the news websites?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-44704892

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PolkerrisBeach · 04/07/2018 13:53

First item on the BBC Scotland news.

Her death was being treated as "unexplained" until they had the results of the post mortem, at which point they said they were investigating a murder.

MrsJayy · 04/07/2018 13:53

Social media a blessing and a curse people think they can say whatever they like,

PolkerrisBeach · 04/07/2018 13:56

Also meant to add that the people who need to be hearing about this are the people in Rothesay. At the moment it's a live investigation and Police are appealing for anyone who was out and about searching on Monday morning to contact them.

It appears very clear that the answer is on Bute. Police know that. Let'ss please not get into idle speculation about "whodunnit".

Igneococcus · 04/07/2018 13:57

The Times had a short report in the main news section yesterday and a longer one today. I also thought I saw it reported on the main BBC evening news yesterday but that might have been the Scottish section already.

Strugglingtodomybest · 04/07/2018 13:57

I have seen this on the national news, it's been on the BBC Breakfast news for sure, it's the only news I watch.

Birdsgottafly · 04/07/2018 13:58

She was put into the Care of her Grandparents and her Father. I read a really early report, when her Mother had found out on FB that she was missing.

I think because there was SS involved and wasn't in the Mother's Care, is why there was a lack of reporting.

This and the three year old dying on the bouncy castle, is just awful.

MrsJayy · 04/07/2018 13:59

My apologises I hadn't seen it on the news yesterday and have had no tv/radio on today

Eliza9917 · 04/07/2018 14:01

@HollowTalk Wed 04-Jul-18 13:22:39
I wonder why her dad doesn't have the same surname as his parents. I know it's nothing to do with anything, but it's odd.

Hardly. She probably just married someone else after the DF's father.

bakingdemon · 04/07/2018 14:02

It was one of the top items in the Today programme's bulletins this morning. They also played clips of the police officers at last night's news conference.

Igneococcus · 04/07/2018 14:03

HollowTalk his mother may have remarried.........not that odd

If the Times go the names right, then the father and grandfather have the same name as the girl, the grandmother has a different one.

HollowTalk · 04/07/2018 14:04

@Eliza9917, no it was that his parents didn't have the same name, though they were reported with the same name elsewhere. It's not important though, obviously.

Birdsgottafly · 04/07/2018 14:07

I think now that all Family have been informed etc, the reporting will be a lot more.

Initially, there always a chance that the other Parent/Family have taken the child.

AjasLipstick · 04/07/2018 14:07

It's extremely odd that the Grandmother reported her missing on Facebook. And her Mum didn't even know she'd gone missing.

Very upsetting and very odd.

PattiStanger · 04/07/2018 14:08

I'm not in Scotland and I know all about this, it certainly is being reported elsewhere.

It seems a complicated situation from what I've read

HollowTalk · 04/07/2018 14:09

That was terrible, wasn't it, Ajas? And then someone sent the mum a link to the local newspaper... if there was time to get it published, there was certainly time for someone to tell the mum. If they couldn't get hold of the mum then surely her local police could've gone to her house?

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Flossy856 · 04/07/2018 14:09

*MrsJayy

I think the OP was meaning it wasn't on national media*

Yes that's what I was thinking. There's been some coverage but not as much as you'd expect. The police have done press interviews. I wondered sadly if world cup fever was pushing it down the reporting list

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Birdsgottafly · 04/07/2018 14:12

AjasLipstick,it wasn't the GM who put it on FB, in was the Neighbours. I suppose you would run out to look for her and tell people as you went. You would want to assume she had wandered off.

It started to be shared and the Mother saw it before she had been told by the Father, because it being 6.30am.

Birdsgottafly · 04/07/2018 14:15

On our Local News, the little girl on the bouncy castle, the Moors fires, other fires and a couple of child drownings, took over Sad.

HollowTalk · 04/07/2018 14:15

I've read in several places that it was the GM who put it on FB.

AjasLipstick · 04/07/2018 14:16

Birds No, it was the Grandmother "Angela King". It's reported as such in all the newspapers and I've also seen the post.

HollowTalk · 04/07/2018 14:16

Would it matter that it was 6.30 am if your child had gone missing?

I wondered whether she had gone missing at 6.30 or whether someone woke up and realised she was no longer at home.

AjasLipstick · 04/07/2018 14:18

Hollow well...it's an odd reaction. Most people would be very active in searching for her immediately and then, in calling the police and speaking to them.

Not posting on Facebook.

ilovegin112 · 04/07/2018 14:20

It was on sky news with the police live last night

CreamCol0uredP0nies · 04/07/2018 14:20

Absolutely tragic case.
I’m in England and it has been reported widely in the national media here.
It would be unsurprising if there have been reporting restrictions in place due to the sensitive nature of the police investigation.

Yes, there is World Cup frenzy in England but not to the exclusion of all other news and the tragic death of a little girl.

BarbaraofSevillle · 04/07/2018 14:21

Exactly Birds. This alleged murder has been in the news, but if the prime suspect(s) are immediate family and a body has been found, either there isn't a lot more to say at this stage, or they don't want to compromise the investigation or trial if there is one.

There are also a lot of other big news stories at the moment, like the wildfires raging across northern England, the Thai footballers, drownings, world cup, bouncy castle death.

Unfortunately, there could also be an element of a remote Scottish island being far off the radar of London centric news organisations.