Karen Buckley missing in Glasgow

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26 year old occupational therapist student missing in Glasgow.
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But I think it was his Mother who was the first to make the statement that her son was innocent. The minute she went public with that, then the media were going to have a field day without any repercussions.

A similar situation happened when someone when missing in the town I lived in. A prime suspect was named and was not treated as a suspect. Except he was, but the police were giving him time to trip himself up, which he did.

However let's very much hope she is somehow OK :(

I saw her mum on TV, absolutely heartbreaking. That poor family , I can't begin to imagine what they are going through.

There is a Glasgow community Facebook page where they are saying RIP since 7pm last night, I read it last night, lots of incensed people screaming at the admin's to remove it as nothing reported by police, nothing in the media about it and how inappropriate it is to make comment such as that etc. It is still there this morning and the admin have responded that they would not put it there if they were not 100% sure.

Really, really hope that is not the case.

There is nothing to say that if she has come to harm that there's any criminality behind it. Anything could have happened.

Exactly Maryz,

According to reports she was seen by witness(es) leaving his place at around 4am, which is why he isn't being named as a suspect.

quietly I used to always say I was off to the loo or for a cigarette and in that time meet a different friend or just decide I was too drunk or even too tired and just leave without telling anyone, also left many a jacket behind just genuinely forgetting about it.

I know a few friends who have left nights out without telling the rest of us, it happens. we dont know if she had been seeing the guy previously, a couple of dates or even just F* buddy type thing.

there's a lot we don't know, talking about it last night with dp though and he said it doesn't sit right with him that the guy let her leave alone - not offering to ring a taxi or anything. DP said he always made sure I got home safe, either by ringing a taxi for me or something when we first started seeing each other. I'm sure though that the man is probably kicking himself and if he is completely innocent in all this then will never forgive himself if anything sinister has occurred.

Her friends/family have said that she didn't like using taxis, I think. So it's possible he did offer to call her a taxi but she declined. I can't imagine there would be that many witnesses around to see her leave at 4am on a residential street, though.

Speculating, but what if she went to 'purchase' something from him, which could explain why the CCTV shows her following him willingly. What if she got chatting to him on the way to or from the bathroom and he had some great story to tell her about something or other and offered to quickly show it to her etc.

I swear, I just cannot see her going with him back to his house for sex. I just don't see it.

Yy agree maybe she thought she told her friends she was going to the loo then home? Did her friends know this guy? Mutual friends? She must've known him otherwise why go willingly to his car? I'm thinking he was sober if driving? Sometimes at uni I was out with friends and got so bored in a club I just headed home often they didn't notice I had gone (not that kind of friendship rather acquaintances) I was very independent though

Also depending on how drunk the friends were and how busy noisy the club was did they really notice she had gone? Or did she tell them she was going home with such and such? Maybe he did text her and offer her a lift home as another poster suggested? Sorry I'm speculating but it's such an upsetting case.

Mk I agree with others you absolutely can't rule that out. I've done it, the things you do when you're young, free, single and out drinking you may look back on as a parent and shudder, but it's normal.

Plus Glasgow is a very walkable city I've thought yeah that's not far I can just walk it (at 3am) before friends have stopped me

She might have been seen on CCTV, not by actual people on the street. And the interest in the grey car wasn't really explained (probably for good reason). Are police still appealing for info on that? And if so, are there any more details about make/model?

I would have (and did) walked from Kelvindale to Hill St at that age and at 4am - it's basically the length of Great Western Road.

I don't have a fear of taxis, but I also regularly used to say "yes, I'll get one on the main road if people insisted on me getting a cab home", and then walk to save the money.

I've also, when v drunk, in my early 20s, taken a wrong turn in that area and ended up by the canal completely disorientated. Turn one way and you're soon on Gt Western Road which is long and straight and everyone knows, turn the other and if you don't know Kelvindale it's easy to get lost in the dark if you're not on the ball.

Is the silver car the same car that she got into & that was seen outside his flat?

If so then who else was insured to drive it? Interested to know his flatmate's whereabouts and if he did come home that night soon after her?

I really can't see it, she is a very attractive and trendy girl.

If the photos of him are how he looks now, I can't imagine her wanting to have sex with him just like that, randomly pick him up in a bar and head off for sex. Drunk or not.

If he was really hot, I might have a different perspective, or if she knew him already, and knew him as a person, than I would also think differently.

Very shallow perspective on the looks front, I realise.

Maybe she did know him previously, that has not been commented on yet, that could throw a whole different light on the matter, but as it stands now, no, I very much doubt she chose him as the one she wanted to have sex with that night.