Karen Buckley missing in Glasgow

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26 year old occupational therapist student missing in Glasgow.
Mumsnetters Please keep your eyes and ears open - you might find something beneficial to her being found.

mkz

You know he hasnt been convicted right?

RIP Karen, thoughts to family and friends.

There is a fund to help the family if anyone is interested and set up by her nursing University friends

xxxxx

Tragic. Such a waste of a life full of possibility.

The news I feared and every parent's worst nightmare
Thinking of all of Karen's family, friends and colleagues - wishing you strength and hope you can be a support to each other

www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2015/0416/694432-cork-student/

Hi quietly .. There is a link to the fund from this rte site.

How awful, that poor girl and her poor family. Unbearably sad.

Mkz - WTAF, give it a rest would you.

"He is only 'detained'. He is not a confirmed suspect and tbh, HQ isn't usually too pleased when threads get speculative like this."

Agree. I think too many posters are making ridiculous statements they know nothing about. Surprised it's taken at least 8 pages before MNHQ has actually stepped in....

Mkz has been obsessed With how the man detained looks from the get gon.

Get go

I know, I know, absolutely ! It totally rang untrue what he said, especially that her friends said it was so out of character.

I will ask to have my angry post deleted, I was so incensed for her, her family and her friends. Regrettably, her voice can now only be heard through her friends and family, she doesn't get the opportunity to contradict what has been said.

I chose to believe what they say about her, over some stranger.

edited to add...

Over some stranger who has been arrested on suspicion of her murder.

Just heard the news on the radio. This is so sad. Her poor, poor parents and brothers. It's just cruel.

RIP Karen.

Regrettably, her voice can now only be heard through her friends and family, she doesn't get the opportunity to contradict what has been said.

mkz the thing you appear to most disturbed about regarding this case, is the suggestion that this woman may have gone back to the flat of a man who you deem to be ugly.

Your posts are vile, you have no idea what happened when she left that club, or under what circumstances she left. Your posts reek of 'ha, I knew it' and I really suggest that you stop now.

The whole thing is just awful, I just cannot imagine what her family are going through.

Sorry MKZ I didn't realise that you knew her.

The thing is, naturally the Police wil have to see him as a suspect. He confirmed he ws with her til 4am and they onlyhave his word that she left freely when he said she did. There is every possibility that she did leave then and was attacked by someone else.

Imagine being the last point of contact before something like this happens? Imagine everyone online spouting about ypu being a murderer. About how you must have done it because, frankly, look at the state of you - the only way you could get a woman would be to abduct/attack/merder her?

At the moment he is still presumed innocent. He is someones son. He could just be telling the truth.

Murder. Not merder.

AldiQ7. No, the thing I am most disturbed, angry and devastated about is that a young girl had her life cut short in the most violent way at the hands of a stranger. That her parents, her brothers, her family and friends have had to live through the horror of the past 5 days, something no one should ever have to endure and a future that will always be overshadowed by the unnecessary loss of her beautiful life.

RIP Karen Buckley.

It's just too soon to speculate on anything. I think it's just enough to say, we don't know anything. At all. Even the things which were initially accepted as true might not be at all. The 21 initially said she went home with him and was intimate with him consensualy. Now we don't know if that's true at all. We just have to wait for the police to do their work.

I hope that the legal process is good and the truth will out.

Meanwhile her poor family are in agony,

We don't actually have it confirmed WHO the 21 year old is. ok it's more than likely that it's the guy interviewed the other day but he has at least one flat mate. what's to say it's not someone else from the flat.

Despite what some posters think about his appearance she is seen on cctv getting into his car freely, she wasn't dragged kicking and screaming. Maybe she just wasn't as shallow as other people

I'm sorry, I am all fired up and gutted and I am firing up other people with my opinion. I understand where you are all coming from with regarding the legal due process.

No nothing confirmed. Incidentally nothing to indicate the man she left with was a stranger. She may have known him. It's all speculation.

I also can't believe the thankfully few posters claiming she wouldn't have gone with that lad willingly because of a photo they've seen.

This is a tragedy for her family, not an opportunity for some to play a smug "I knew it" and "he looked a right dodgy un". Pathetic

Ah, I didn't know about CCtv showing her getting into the car. For all we know he could have offered to run her to the banklink/Spar etc. But anyway now I'm speculating. That's the danger.

It really doesn't sit comfortably with me that the police released that statement about how "they became consensually intimate". I don't really see why that was necessary. Even if it was part of a strategy, I don't think they should have done that.

This has really upset me. How it really could happen to anyone out walking alone. Women really can be so vulnerable. Poor Karen, what an awful thing to go through, such a waste of a wonderful life, helping others, and this is done to her. And I feel sick thinking about her family, it's beyond awful. How can they ever cope with this?

Thanks for the link Meerkat, I'll be donating. Although it feels so pointless as I just don't see how anything can help her poor family, but hopefully it might make logistics or something easier. Oh it's so, so awful. How can people like this be living amongst us?