I agree that that was the point. But I am not sure that she was making any assumptions - those would all be yours, I think. Black woman goes missing whilst out shopping, missing for four weeks, very distressed family desperate to find her make appeals. No headlines. No multiple threads. Someone will come along in a second and say that people go missing all the time. That is true. So why all the hoo-ha about one woman?
I think everyone is sad about what happened to Nicola. But there is something disturbing about the profiling of only certain types of women being newsworthy. And to be clear, I don't think race is the factor, or the only factor. All sorts of things factor into the few cases that get attention - race, class, status, "value", morality.... What I think few people recognise is that there is an unrecognised form of mysogyny at work in all this that we often unwittingly buy into - that certain women, by virtue of a variety of factors, are more worthy of concern when they go missing. It will be a real shock when I see the news and social media dominated for weeks and weeks about a non-white/British woman, a single parent, living on the edge, on benefits, never worked in her life, from a rough "council estate" when she goes missing.