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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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Tabbacus · 13/12/2021 09:57

[quote kirinm]@Tabbacus they were worried enough to do broadcast an appeal and for Harriet Harman (local MP) to do the same. But if she committed suicide which, you have to assume given the "not suspicious" point, then her body has been there since 28 November 2021. By 3rd December they were concerned because she'd not been seen since 28/11. How hard is it to look at green spaces around her area?

Instead, they didn't do their job properly yet again and some poor kids have found her.[/quote]
Yes I agree with you, sorry I see how my last sentence sounded like I didn't- even if they suspect or have no reason to think something else is at play they should look.

They have no evidence that Leah did go of her own free will, but they also don't have any evidence that she didn't; they're going by the latter to justify a half arsed and delayed investigation.

wtaf37 · 13/12/2021 10:03

@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.

Sadly, it's probably because she wasn't a middle-class white woman...
EIIa · 13/12/2021 10:09

@KatyaZamolodchikova

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.
They NEEtto be in the. We for this reason. Every single one of them
Hizz · 13/12/2021 10:09

I suspect there was a letter or note.

CherryRedDMs · 13/12/2021 10:14

Concern over murdered women and abused children is sadly the exception, not the rule. You won’t have heard of most of them.

OverTheRubicon · 13/12/2021 10:16

It sounds like there was a man suspected already. Part of the reason there isn't more outcry more often is because most young women who are murdered or go missing are victims of a man in their lives already, or are made significantly more vulnerable due to sex work/addiction/homelessness/severe mental illness . Of course this just means that there should be even more of a prolonged outcry, but it's easier for the public to dismiss these situations as someone else's problem, not so likely to affect someone they know and less of an interesting mystery.

catmothertes1 · 13/12/2021 10:18

@AwaAnBileYerHeid

I'd heard it on the news and I'm up in Scotland, so it's not exactly local.
I'm in Scotland too and watch the news/read several national newspapers online several times a day but the first time I heard/read about her was yesterday,when the body was found.
hivemindneeded · 13/12/2021 10:34

I think the police had some very strong leads from the start on this case, so it made sense not to alert suspects by raising the media profile. She phoned a friend to say she was being followed and a man had been seen lurking around the hospital. So they probably wanted to work on those in peace and not have sensational stories alert him to them homing in. I bet the trial will get full, lurid coverage.

TolkiensFallow · 13/12/2021 10:38

The difference is that she’s not white middle class British. That’s why there was less media coverage. Bloody awful.

The other difference is that her murderer isnt believed to be a serving police officer

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 13/12/2021 10:40

@TolkiensFallow

The difference is that she’s not white middle class British. That’s why there was less media coverage. Bloody awful.

The other difference is that her murderer isnt believed to be a serving police officer

The young woman in kidbrooke wasn’t white- that was pretty well covered in the media
TheresAStarmanWaitingInTheSky · 13/12/2021 10:40

I didn't know about this, awful.

RubyFakeLips · 13/12/2021 10:41

Coverage does seem victim dependent, Maria Rawlings hardly got any media coverage at the time of her disappearance or the discovery of her body, although there was very little time between the two.

I only knew about it as a friend works at the hospital where she went missing.

Thats was a random attack, 2 months after Sarah Everard, really shocking to me and barely any fuss at all.

luinagreine · 13/12/2021 10:45

I think it depends on the case what coverage it needs and the general public won't be privy to that information. A friend of mine was missing a few years ago except we knew right from the start that we were searching for a body. It took a while to find her but there was no national news coverage because we knew with her history of metal health issues what had happened, there was just no need to have widespread coverage of what we knew was very sadly a suicide. Having everyone on the otherwise of the country know that she was missing wouldn't have helped in any way.

I'm not saying that that is what happened in this case at all just that often you don't know what is going on behind the scenes because quite frankly you don't need to know.

twilightermummy · 13/12/2021 10:54

This is the first I’ve heard of it 😩

edification · 13/12/2021 10:56

Sadly, every headline story every day of the week could be about missing and murdered women in the UK, but it's not commercial/public interest/wide ranging enough to sell papers

Skiptheheartsandflowers · 13/12/2021 10:56

The police don't think it's murder? I'm not sure that's good enough for me anymore. I read the reports about the Stephen Port murders and the number of links they failed to make is appalling. They took things like the faked suicide note at face value and didn't even check it. Maybe if the Met were more generally competent and less inclined to employ psychopaths then we could all trust their judgement. I've always previously been supportive of the police but after this year's events I am far more cynical.

Hadn't heard anything about Petra at all. Poor woman.

ohreallynotreally · 13/12/2021 11:07

@santasmuma

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.
This
TeloMere · 13/12/2021 11:19

The BBC News site says "initial inquiries suggest the circumstances are not suspicious.''

Thousands of people go missing every year, we can't have front page national coverage for all of them.

kirinm · 13/12/2021 11:20

@hivemindneeded

I think the police had some very strong leads from the start on this case, so it made sense not to alert suspects by raising the media profile. She phoned a friend to say she was being followed and a man had been seen lurking around the hospital. So they probably wanted to work on those in peace and not have sensational stories alert him to them homing in. I bet the trial will get full, lurid coverage.
Where did you get this from?
Nevertime · 13/12/2021 11:26

Media coverage is usually driven by family and friends, that's why it's so unequal (and often white middle class), it's about the contacts knowledge of the system and drive of the missing person's family and friends.

As Petra wasn't reported missing for several days, presumably there were few people to do this for her Sad

Police get numerous missing people every week and the majority will have gone of their own free will. They can't start murder investigations for all of them.

Cuck00soup · 13/12/2021 11:37

A young woman has died tragically and my heart goes out to her family.

I recognise that media coverage can be helpful to find missing people or to find what has happened to them, but at the same time we have no right as the general public to that information.

RobotValkyrie · 13/12/2021 11:42

I think the only reason she got any coverage at all, is because she was a medic. And yet it took almost 2 weeks for her disappearance to even make the news.
Sick world.

Tilltheend99 · 13/12/2021 11:43

It’s very sad.

I’ve been following this story and there has been quite a lot in the news about it as well as Harriet Harman campaigning for her safe return.

They arrested someone over it the other day which usually makes the rules on reporting certain aspects of a case tighter until it goes to trial.

I am, as I’m sure many on MN are, outraged and saddened. If there is not a clear level of ‘national outrage’ at the moment I think it is more down to the fact that everyone is a bit preoccupied with the massive waves of Covid and Government corruption washing across the country at the same time.

It is worrying how the level of stranger murder against women seems to have increased over the past two years.

edification · 13/12/2021 11:58

Sadly, this is now being reported as not suspicious. There's a lot that doesn't make it into the news. Expect mental health issues were known and therefore no manhunt or media explosion required.

NatriumChloride · 13/12/2021 12:05

The cynic in me says that because she wasn’t white, popular, pretty, MC, well connected etc… her disappearance got very little media coverage.