Dreadful news about girls murdered in Soham

[MaryLou]

I've been very upset about what happened in Soham and wondered if others were feeling the same way. I had to go to work today and my father in law who was looking after my two children aged 6 and 8 decided to take them to Legoland. I felt so worried all day, even though I do trust him - I even burst into tears in front of a work colleague!

Reading the papers and hearing the frightening news really seems to have affected me. Does anyone else feel the same way? I keep thinking that the chances of it happening are very slim but it still affects what you allow the children to do. What can we do to protect our children without wrapping them in cotton wool?

I got a horrible "Spam" today suggesting that someone at the Airbase may have been responsible for this crime.

It should be looked into, I agree but I don't like things like that coming to me quite frankly.

Thanks to everyone who replied to my post about letting our children play. It has helped to reassure me and put it into perspective.
I will have to gradually let my DS be more independent I know, and I wouldn't want him to have problems caused by overprotection.
Being a parent has to be one of the hardest jobs doesn't it.
Thanks winnie1 for the previous thread.

Apparently police are still searching Ian Huntley's home. A rumour I have heard is there is still not enough evidence against him incriminate him for the murders of the girls. I have got more gruesome details but only if you want to hear. R

I want to hear, Rhiannon (but am willing to be overridden).

Apparently they were disposed of in the school incinerator but as there was still evidence they were then dumped in woods. I was told that they found a finger and teeth (I presume in the incinerator).

This could all be urban myth but wondered if anyone knew anything else as it has been a while now since the arrests. R

I thought when they were found there were "two bodies"? For Milly Dowler they said "human remains"...which sounds awful.

Imagine being the person who finds something like that. You'd never be able to forget it. I still remember finding a hedgehog in a state of decomposition when I was about 10.

Rhiannon, in the summer, when my husband first heard the news about Ian Huntly, his first thought was that the school incinerator had been used for the disposal of the bodies.

Oh god, I feel like vomiting, that's just so gruesome, Rhiannon. It must be terrible enough to lose a child but to have them mutilated and not even be left with a proper body to bury doesn't bear thinking about.

There's a long-running case in Scotland of a missing woman, mum of two. They think she was chopped up and fed to pigs. The murder trial begins next year, I shudder to think what the evidence will be.

They did say they had found two bodies (which suggests a whole body and not human remains as in Milly's case) but that they were in a state of decomposition. Also they identified the bodies fairly quickly, whereas with Milly it took a long while, again suggesting that the bodies were more or less intact. They do not know how they died yet, but that could be more to do with the decomposition than with anything else.

I should imagine that once the girls were officially missing, the school would be closely watched and visited by the police interviewing their school friends, I am sure that any activity by Ian Huntley would have been noticed. Huntley joined in the search on the very night they went missing, so he couldn't have disposed of the bodies that quickly. I think this is just a horror story some sicko has conjured up that feeds on everyone's imaginations. Can you imagine if Holly and Jessica's parents heard of this? It is wrong to presume such things unless the police release such information. As they haven't we really shouldn't be discussing rumours that have no grounding. It is upsetting and distressing enough that they were killed, without knowing any more gruesome details. My thoughts are focused entirely on their parents and family.

I agree with Rhubarb.The families of Holly and Jessica, and of Milly have suffered, indeed are suffering enough.We should be remembering them,not gruesomely discussing a rumour.Lets stop this now.Please.

Hear hear GRMUM