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To wonder why the nurse that was found dead…

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Tillsforthrills · 13/12/2021 07:59

Young nurse Petra Srnciva vanished two weeks ago on her way home from work in South London who worked at the Evelina hospital was found dead in a park yesterday.

It really makes me wonder why there has been nothing like the kind of concern over other young women in this past year that caused national outcry.

I find it really strange there’s been no real concern over her at all. So shocking and sad.

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GoodnightGrandma · 13/12/2021 08:01

I was aware of her being missing, and I live up North and don’t watch the news.
What are you trying to say ?

KatyaZamolodchikova · 13/12/2021 08:01

There was a young woman found murdered in my city a couple of weeks ago, and nothing on the national news at all (although my city is in the north and not London…) I think, OP too many women go missing and are murdered to have all of them in the news.

endofthelinefinally · 13/12/2021 08:04

Because all the news has been taken over by Omicron, Christmas parties and Boris.
I did hear that she was missing, but hadn't heard anything further.
How dreadful. Poor woman and her poor family.

Couldntmissthisonethisyear · 13/12/2021 08:05

If you're comparing to the missing woman earlier this year then her friends were very social media savvy and made sure it was out there. This lady didn't have that, just the police and news appeals.
I have seen it on my news feeds over the past week (not in london) so I don't think she had no coverage but just that she didn't have the social media campaign because no one started one and if they did then it wasn't shared to my feeds and didn't go viral.
Tragic all round, I was sad to hear they've found a body.

cheeriobye · 13/12/2021 08:09

@Tillsforthrills

Young nurse Petra Srnciva vanished two weeks ago on her way home from work in South London who worked at the Evelina hospital was found dead in a park yesterday.

It really makes me wonder why there has been nothing like the kind of concern over other young women in this past year that caused national outcry.

I find it really strange there’s been no real concern over her at all. So shocking and sad.

I agree it is strange when startling things happen and the coverage barely makes a ripple.

Two weeks is a long time to be missing so you'd expect there to be some kind of build up.

I agree the news has been most Covid related of late.

Sorry to hear the nurse has been found dead. Do we know if it is a murder investigation?

AwaAnBileYerHeid · 13/12/2021 08:12

I'd heard it on the news and I'm up in Scotland, so it's not exactly local.

steff13 · 13/12/2021 08:12

What do you mean by lack of concern? She was reported missing by a co-worker on December 3rd. She was last seen on November 28th. Sadly, she's probably been dead since November 28th.

PlasticPlantsDontDie · 13/12/2021 08:14

How depressing. It seems that it’s so common it’s becoming unnewsworthy.

What a sad state of affairs.

With Sarah Everard I do think a lot of it was that we all knew she was missing for a long time before they found her body.

santasmuma · 13/12/2021 08:15

People being obtuse saying they 'knew' about it. Knowing and having full media coverage are not the same. This woman should have been headline news from the minute she was reported missing.

GeodesicDome · 13/12/2021 08:15

Women go missing all the time, and turn up dead.

That's the scandal, not the varying degrees of media coverage.

GoodnightGrandma · 13/12/2021 08:16

A quick Google shows that 180,000 people go missing every year.

anon12345678901 · 13/12/2021 08:16

I heard about it prior to her being found dead, it's such a sad outcome but tbh, one I expected. I'm more surprised when a woman turns up safe and well after going missing, which is an unbelievably depressing way to feel.

JurgensCakeBabyJesus · 13/12/2021 08:17

Sarah Everard was the exception rather than the rule, women go missing and are murdered and go missing every week and it barely gets a mention. She was young, blonde, white, middle class and had connections in PR/media. Violence against women is seen as an inevitability in this country and doesn't usually prompt that level of outrage, it's disgusting.

toastofthetown · 13/12/2021 08:17

It's just how the news works, some stories are picked up on and some aren't. Like the Baby P case was in the national news for a long time, but over a child a week is killed by their parents and mostly aren't reported on. Similarly with missing and murdered people, if the news is full of Christmas parties, Covid variants and an updated vaccine program then there isn't enough airspace to cover everything. Terrible for her and her loved ones though.

Jacaranda75 · 13/12/2021 08:17

It becomes a news item whilst the person is still missing. This is in order to raise public awareness and try to find them. If the first the press hear of the case is when the person is found dead, it will naturally get less press coverage.

RachelTheRedNosedReindeer · 13/12/2021 08:18

I wonder if part of it is that her death has been treated as unexplained.

I remember a student going missing and it turned out later that she was murdered. The awareness wasn't really there until she was confirmed as a victim of murder.

Or else as a pp says, it's because so many women are murdered. It could also be because she isn't English, sadly. Awful to think that, but it wouldn't surprise me that the media and some people are less concerned about someone from another country.

boltz · 13/12/2021 08:18

They had already arrested someone before they find the body I believe so that makes a difference.

boltz · 13/12/2021 08:20

@JurgensCakeBabyJesus I agree plus news was "quiet" at that time.

santasmuma · 13/12/2021 08:21

@Jacaranda75

It becomes a news item whilst the person is still missing. This is in order to raise public awareness and try to find them. If the first the press hear of the case is when the person is found dead, it will naturally get less press coverage.

That isn't what happened though

Etinoxaurus · 13/12/2021 08:21

@boltz

They had already arrested someone before they find the body I believe so that makes a difference.
Is that about Petra?
Thatsplentyjack · 13/12/2021 08:21

There was a young woman (well she was only 16 so girl really) murdered where I am recently. It was her brother iirc. I don't think that was in the national news, but I could have just missed it.

Ohshittt · 13/12/2021 08:21

I never heard of this and my husband watches the news channels often. Very sad to read. I agree with PP though, I think it's quite often about social media and how forceful people are on there. I don't use social media myself so don't imagine I would get a huge backing of people on there making people aware of my disappearance.

AndreaC74 · 13/12/2021 08:22

I was thinking this too, the UK appears to be completely unsafe for women or indeed men judging by the Porte case, which the Police didn't even appear to investigate, the family of the victims did the ground work.
I guess there wasn't the media coverage because she was foreign.

AdamRyan · 13/12/2021 08:22

I think some of it depends how the police are handling the case and what they need to find out.
With Sarah Everard it was as if she'd vanished into thin air, so the police needed to use media interest to get sightings/trace her last movements/find eye witnesses.
Maybe this case is different so that's not required

Madworld26 · 13/12/2021 08:23

I just heard on the news that death is not being treated as suspicious which makes me think that they have reason to believe she hasn’t been murdered, which is potentially why it isn’t being as covered in the news as some other cases have been. Very sad either way.

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