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Marelle Sturrock

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MrsMuddle · 27/04/2023 09:04

I’m struggling to come to terms with this awful news. I knew Marelle and David through friends, although I only met them a few times. Those poor children she taught will be scared and traumatised. I know the police narrative, but I just can’t believe it.

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gawditswindy · 27/04/2023 09:57

It's horrific. The poor, poor woman. She'd have been so excited about her baby. Why are women not safe?

roughtyping · 27/04/2023 09:57

Also really struggling with this. I knew David a long time ago and just can't wrap my head around what's happened at all. Making me very teary.

whitesnowflake · 27/04/2023 10:03

It's horrific for everyone involved. Poor Marelle and her baby - such an exciting time, first child, about to go on mat leave, everything to look forward to. So desperately sad.

ididntknowthat11 · 27/04/2023 16:25

I also can't believe this.

My auntie was friends with his mum many years ago. A lovely woman and by all accounts a lovely family.

I know you can't go by appearances and nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors.....but I just can't see David doing that.

I live just past Milngavie although currently on holiday so I feel a bit detached from what it currently going on there.

Just such a horrible tragedy.

Obviously if he did he did....but at this point is it a foregone conclusion?

Poor Marelle and her baby. And I feel for David's mum so much. And Marelle's family as well, of course.

RandomGeocache · 27/04/2023 16:36

Condolences to this poor woman's family.

I live really near Mugdock, it's a huge area. The bit with made paths and loads of dog walkers, there are other bits which are much more wild. There was lots of police activity on Tuesday, helicopter buzzing around all day, quieter today.

MonsterRehab23 · 27/04/2023 17:06

So so awful, poor Marelle and her baby. I didn’t know her but she’s the same age as me and I live fairly near Craigton, I walk past their home near enough every day. Its horrific.

ididntknowthat11 · 27/04/2023 17:08

@RandomGeocache I live there too. It is huge. Plus a lot of water nearby.

I know the poor man's mother is distraught not knowing what was happened to him and my heart aches for her. And I don't mean that to in anyway diminish the sympathy I have for Marelle and her family.

The whole thing is just so tragic. And I suspect nobody will ever find out what happened and why.

BlueThursday · 27/04/2023 17:18

Horrible for all involved

we go to mugdock often and clearly just want to avoid the area right now. Not that I think we are in danger but just the rubber necking nature of it

CherryPieface · 27/04/2023 17:31

Yes, I’m Glasgow too and it’s just awful. Can’t imagine what happened.

weebarra · 27/04/2023 17:34

It's so awful. She looks so happy in the photos I've seen, so alive.
It's not far from where my parents live, we used to go to Mugdock a lot as children.
RIP Marelle and your wee baby.

Ohheyitsme1 · 27/04/2023 17:36

It’s a terrible thing to have happened. I’d “hoped” she was only just pregnant, but to read she was 29 weeks and the unborn baby didn’t survive…just terrible.

I hope they find him alive.

MsPavlichenko · 27/04/2023 17:36

If men who abused/ battered/murdered their wives were all easily identified in advance tragedies like this would never happen. I don’t know what has happened here, but the police are looking for her partner.

LiliLil · 27/04/2023 19:16

It’s just so sad

BlueThursday · 27/04/2023 19:20

Body of a male found in the reservoir.

so much heartache for those involved

Yousee · 27/04/2023 19:34

It was inevitable but still such sad news. Anyone who knew them knows how devoted they were to each other. This is tragedy upon tragedy upon tragedy, whatever has happened.
I'm going to miss them so much.

MenoRageisReal · 27/04/2023 19:44

MsPavlichenko · 27/04/2023 17:36

If men who abused/ battered/murdered their wives were all easily identified in advance tragedies like this would never happen. I don’t know what has happened here, but the police are looking for her partner.

Exactly. You wouldn't believe what goes on behind closed doors sometimes. Even in the most "ideal" relationships on the outside.

I'm sick of men murdering women. Heart sore for Marelle and her unborn child, and all who loved them. No sympathy at all for the murdering coward who took their lives and futures.

MsPavlichenko · 27/04/2023 19:44

Again, appearances are only that. Abusive men don’t go around with a stamp on their forehead. They may appear to be the loveliest of men. Some of the time they may be. They may be loved by their partners.

They are still abusers, often violent and too often killers. Pregnancy is often the first time the abuse manifests itself, or sadly ramps up.

storminamooncup · 27/04/2023 21:05

She looks so happy, as does he, in the photos.
But a smile can mask a lot.
If a woman dies and her partner goes missing, its pretty obvious what happened.
The question now is to determine whether it was deliberate or accidental.

Sugarfree23 · 27/04/2023 21:49

Just tragic all round. I can't help feel sorry for both her family and his.

How does his poor mum, pick up the pieces, knowing what he did and killing himself.
They both look so happy in the photos they have released.

ProseccoOnIce · 27/04/2023 22:29

There is a special place in hell for men who kill, abuse & cheat on vulnerable pregnant women.

MsPavlichenko · 27/04/2023 22:45

The police launched a murder enquiry. That suggests they were fairly sure her death was not accidental. They are not looking for anyone else. That suggests that they think he murdered her.

bideyinn · 27/04/2023 22:50

This is heartbreaking. They looked like such a lovely couple. One thing that is puzzling me is that the police were alerted by her colleagues that she had not attended work. Was she absent on Monday too and they’d tried to contact her? It seems like an extreme reaction from colleagues to call the police?

MenoRageisReal · 27/04/2023 22:54

@bideyinn the reports I read said the last time he was seen was Sunday evening so I'm assuming she was dead by then and yes therefore was absent Monday and then Tuesday when they called the police.

bideyinn · 27/04/2023 22:59

MenoRageisReal · 27/04/2023 22:54

@bideyinn the reports I read said the last time he was seen was Sunday evening so I'm assuming she was dead by then and yes therefore was absent Monday and then Tuesday when they called the police.

Thanks, that makes more sense. It is just so awful. Their poor families will probably never know what happened.

LouBaloo · 27/04/2023 23:05

MsPavlichenko · 27/04/2023 17:36

If men who abused/ battered/murdered their wives were all easily identified in advance tragedies like this would never happen. I don’t know what has happened here, but the police are looking for her partner.

Whatever happened, there’s two families out there right now grieving and trying to make sense of their losses. I agree about about the abusive men though!

Goodness knows what Marelle went through before her death but my heart goes out to her and her unborn baby. I’m assuming Marelle never turned up for work and couldn’t be reached by phone on Tuesday, neither could he as he could have been her emergency contact at work. I read a press report that colleagues went to her home and called the police.

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