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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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Etinoxaurus · 13/12/2021 08:23

@GoodnightGrandma

A quick Google shows that 180,000 people go missing every year.
Utterly irrelevant- that includes late home from the pub, missing trains and lost phone scenarios. Missing then never found is, thank God, vanishingly rare.
LubaLuca · 13/12/2021 08:26

I've read about it, it was in the national press.

I do wonder if the police knew of her fate. In other words, there was no race to find her, it was just a matter of time, so they didn't need the public's assistance. I read they'd arrested somebody early on in the investigation into her disappearance.

TheWayTheLightFalls · 13/12/2021 08:26

She was last seen on November 28th. Sadly, she's probably been dead since November 28th.

This. Though I know Brunswick Park , where she was found, quite well, and am a bit surprised about it being the location after so long. It’s a small park and not overgrown or unkempt at all, I can’t imagine where a body could be dumped.

Rainartist · 13/12/2021 08:28

Sadly the other case was the exception rather than the norm, her friends launched a massive campaign involving media and social media most people don't have that Sad

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Tillsforthrills · 13/12/2021 08:30

She did vanish into thin air too on her way home from work.

I’m genuinely terrified how many women are murdered in this country and I feel that after Sarah, it seems to just be accepted.

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boltz · 13/12/2021 08:31

@Etinoxaurus yes in this article www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-59622199

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Tillsforthrills · 13/12/2021 08:32

And pre- Sarah too.

I accept that her friends helped a lot and am grateful that bus and home cameras helped very much in solving her case. Truly awful.

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Tillsforthrills · 13/12/2021 08:33

Even so, even with the help of her friends and even though the media was quiet at the time, the difference is shocking in how her case and other women’s has been treated.

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boltz · 13/12/2021 08:34

The stats always say you are most likely to be murdered by family members (as if that's reassurance) but I remember an article posted on here that the majority of unsolved murders were female victims. I will google it.

Prescottdanni123 · 13/12/2021 08:40

The news report that I've read says that circumstances are not suspicious, meaning that the police don't think that it was murder.

Although I agree that the fact that she was missing didn't feature in the news very much.

boltz · 13/12/2021 08:41

Even so, even with the help of her friends and even though the media was quiet at the time, the difference is shocking in how her case and other women’s has been treated.

Sarah was the anomaly which isn't right but she was.

tintodeverano2 · 13/12/2021 08:42

According to missingpeople.org.uk someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. And that's not accounting for the ones no one reports.
It's simply impossible to report about every person that goes missing.

gogohm · 13/12/2021 08:42

In this case it's only when she failed to show for work anyone realised she was missing, at that point it was publicised

ShakesFist · 13/12/2021 08:43

I'm in London and it's been quite a visible news story

I think there are degrees as to how unusual someone going missing can be - what I found sad is Petra was only reported missing to the police 5 days after she was last seen so a lot of time had passed by then :(

someone is reported missing in the UK every 90 seconds
www.missingpeople.org.uk/for-professionals/information-and-policy/information-and-research/key-information

FelicityPike · 13/12/2021 08:47

There’s a young man (19) who’s been missing since May from Saltcoats in Ayrshire. Bet he hasn’t made the English news. It’s sad when news outlets stop reporting on them, almost like they just give up after a certain length of time.

Nevertime · 13/12/2021 08:51

I think there's been a lot of coverage actually, with her being a nurse. The coverage for the previous sad cases only really took off after the bodies were found.

BlueSoul · 13/12/2021 08:51

Pre social media times, a much loved very close relative of mine was missing and later found to have died. It was practically impossible to get any interest from the press whilst they were still missing, despite a huge amount of effort on our part to raise awareness and spread the word. We were absolutely hounded afterwards though. Front page news then. Sad

Sadly some missing people are more newsworthy than others.

SirensofTitan · 13/12/2021 08:51

@AndreaC74

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.
Are you in the UK?

Without taking anything away from any awful murder or poor police investigation saying that the UK is completely unsafe is nonsense in the extreme. I just looked it up, 600 murders last year in a population of over 60 million

Judging media coverage is subjective because it depends on which media a particular person chooses to consume. Like posters above I was aware of this case which now appears to possibly be a suicide The police were possibly aware of from the start which will impact the public profile of any missing person case.

October2020 · 13/12/2021 08:53

Generally, when police have a good idea why they've gone missing, there isn't the same interest. Either because they know who did it already, or they wanted to go missing, or sadly they took their own life.

The ones that hit the papers are where there's a mystery... because deep down we are all vultures feasting on the misery of others.

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 13/12/2021 08:53

But it was in the news- splitting hairs about how much coverage is a bit ridiculous. I’m desperately sad tor the woman and her family but it does appear it wasn’t murder. Clearly those cases which are more sinister make it to the news in a greater way- the press must be giving some info they don’t disclose.

Nevertime · 13/12/2021 08:54

@Tillsforthrills

She did vanish into thin air too on her way home from work.

I’m genuinely terrified how many women are murdered in this country and I feel that after Sarah, it seems to just be accepted.

There's no suggestion that this is murder, in which case it's absolutely correct that the media goes quiet on the subject now she's been found.

There wasn't early coverage because no one reported her missing Sad

Thatsplentyjack · 13/12/2021 08:58

@Tillsforthrills

She did vanish into thin air too on her way home from work.

I’m genuinely terrified how many women are murdered in this country and I feel that after Sarah, it seems to just be accepted.

She didn't vanish into thin air. She was obviously either murdered where/close to where her body was found, or she was abducted and dumped. I think "she vanished into thin air" minimises what happened. I can't really explain why, and I know you didn't mean it like that though.

I can assure you it's not just in this country.

Thatsplentyjack · 13/12/2021 08:59

There's no suggestion that this is murder,

Oh, apologies, I thought she had been murdered. Ignore my last post.

Nevertime · 13/12/2021 09:00

She didn't vanish into thin air. She was obviously either murdered where/close to where her body was found, or she was abducted and dumped. I think "she vanished into thin air" minimises what happened. I can't really explain why, and I know you didn't mean it like that though.

She wasn't obviously murdered at all. Police don't think it was murder.