They have net confirmed cause of death yet - PM was inconclusive, nor have they said where the murder was carried out, or when/how. We do not know if beheading was the cause of death, a deliberate post mortem action, or the result of animal action on a body left in woodland.
The defendant was charged with murdering Mee Kuen Chong in London and then transporting her body to Devon, according to press reports of the court hearing, so that much is known. It would also be very clear to a pathologist whether decapitation was ante or post mortem, so the fact that the cause of death isn’t yet clear strongly suggests it was not that imho. If done post mortem, that could be for any number of reasons – to impede identification of the victim, to obscure the cause of death, to prevent identification of a particular murder weapon, for ease of transportation, to keep the head as a trophy, etc. I think ‘animal action’ is highly unlikely as a cause of complete decapitation, unless you think the Beast of Dartmoor has been staycationing in Salcombe. So there’s actually quite a lot known and published about the crime, just not much about the defendant.
This level of information entirely normal at this stage of English legal proceedings.
Not unusual anyway. If the cause of death was known it would usually be stated for the record.
There is no need for speculation about the sex of the offender in this case - it was easily established from the accused's social media history. But even after that had been pointed out, some posters continued to question it, post slogans etc. That looks really bad, as it shows that people just pile on (and haven't RTFT, or spotted that it's been moved because there was no S/G angle)
I think it’s a reasonable question actually, and certainly not one you’re entitled to proscribe. There’s an unusually small amount of publicly available information about her compared with the norm in the internet age. There might be lots of reasons for that, and the acquisition of a new identity is one. In conjunction with the violent nature of the crime, it’s a valid hypothesis imo.
I don’t see that her sex has been ‘easily established’ either. She does look female in the photos I’ve seen and she’s similar in looks to her sister, who is definitely female – but so what? Unless you think all transwomen are stubbly six-footers with prominent adam’s apples and implausible wigs, I’m not sure you can say with certainty – unless you’ve gone considerably more than the extra mile in your research. That’s not ‘piling on’, it’s keeping an open mind.
And of course we’re talking about the sex of the alleged offender.
It's good to read that there was some publicity about Mee Kuen Chong, whilst she was still a missing person, and so the hope would be she was found. After all people don't normally vanish from their normal daily lives.
There are around 350,000 missing episodes per year in the UK, actually, and that’s just the ones that get reported.
I do not think the press coverage in the 'missing' phase was anything like other cases this year when missing people have been found dead.
I disagree. Taking the number of missing episodes per year I’ve just mentioned, are you saying you think there are 100,000+ disappearances so far this year that have had more publicity than Mee Kuen Chong? I think the number is orders of magnitude smaller, probably in single figures, in fact. I think most people in the UK who have no special interest in the phenomenon of missing people would be hard pressed to tell you the names of more than two of them – Sarah Everard and Richard Okorogheye – so if by 'other cases' you mean 'two very specific other cases' then, yes, that's true, for the very specific reasons that pertain to those two very specific cases. It's bemusing how significant you think this is.
The other point you're missing is that, just as Sarah Everard became emblematic of women's inability to go about their business unmolested by men, and Richard Okorogheye's case shone a light on firstly the continuing issue of institutionalised racial bias in the police and secondly the ongoing crisis in male mental health, it's perfectly possible that Mee Kuen Chong's disappearance might have gone on to be hugely consciousness-raising about the vulnerability of older people living with dementia in the community. Except that then she rocked up 250 miles away with her head missing, which understandably changed the narrative completely.
And I don't think it's right to accept that that's just how things are.
Literally no one has said that, and some of us have made quite specific suggestions for change.
Tbh, it seems as though you’re just looking for reasons to tell the thread off and I'm at a loss to understand why.