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Kmacg

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Damn! That's crazy.

A former churchwarden jailed for murdering a university lecturer has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal.

Benjamin Field, 35, was sentenced to a minimum of 36 years in prison for the murder of Peter Farquhar, 69, in Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, in 2015.

On Thursday, senior judges ordered a retrial, saying jurors at Oxford Crown Court had "not been properly directed" over evidence related to Farquhar taking spiked whisky.
Did anyone watch the drama they did about this? It was horrendous and so so sad. I dont beleive for a moment that he is innocent.
 
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Tell.A.Tale

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I know this is a serious thread and these are serious cases but Thumbalina is the cutest name I’ve ever heard for a dog. I hope she is ok and returned to his family and not stuck in a Spanish shelter!
 
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SaLou

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Good news, she's been found.

The girl showed up at a koban (police box) in Yokohama at around 8 p.m. on Saturday and was taken into protective custody.

She was unharmed, police said.

She reportedly told police that she had gone out to visit a location famous in anime (a "pilgrimage site") and spent time at places like internet cafes, but eventually began to miss her parents. - Japan Today
 
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It’s just been reported that a body has been found. Not yet formally identified but his family have been informed. So very sad, a life of struggle for this poor lad and it’s ended in tragedy. Life can be so cruel.
 
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hello from me

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I think in a rural area, there wouldn’t be much else open at that time. I’m not getting the milk and wine thing. If they said she’d stopped in to buy some water, that would seem logical. But milk and wine?!
A body has now been found. Such a shame.
 
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Multi-21

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I’m confused by the Rachel Booth case. Why was she jogging at 3.50am?
Was the garage near her house and she was shopping before she went home or was she planning to jog carrying the wine and milk?
The shop assistant said she had jogged from 45 minutes away so was going to jog home carrying her shopping?
It says the last sighting of her was by her family so did she make it home but the cctv from the garage is just so people know what she looked like?
Sadly I feel like it’ll have the same outcome as other recent missing women near water but the timeline seems confusing at the moment
 
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Nelly's mum

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Has anyone read about the missing boy in Llandudno?

“ An extensive search is under way for a "vulnerable" 16-year-old boy who was last seen at a seaside resort wearing only his swimming shorts.
Police were alerted at about 14:00 BST on Saturday after Athrun, who is autistic, was reported missing from West Shore Beach in Llandudno, Conwy county, close to the boating lake and playpark.”

Initially looked like he was vulnerable as he’s autistic and possibly non verbal, but then people discovered this page where his parents were documenting what seems like very private information (now taken down)
Very odd, and sad.
Poor guy, I have no doubt his parents love him but there is a complete lack of privacy and dignity there.
And why would you take a person who is struggling with their MH, with suicidal ideation around drowning, to the beach?
Poor Athrun 🙁
 
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Tangerine Dream

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Did anyone read the story of the poor little French boys left in the woods in Portugal wearing blindfolds by their mother and stepfather (why is there so often a stepfather in these horrible cases?). They were abandoned with backpacks of meager supplies of water and food and told they were playing a game.

In the end they walked miles and, thank God, came across an adult couple who helped sort them out and they are now with the authorties.

Stepfather is reported to have mental health problems but what the fuck is wrong with the mother?

I can't we these vile excuses for mums.
 
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Nottonightbabe

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Maybe milk to line her stomach to down a bottle of wine and hop in?
Just awful tbh.
And as someone said, the cold water shock will be what works first in thayt situation
The milk could have been to make the wine purchase seem more regular. I don't know anything about her history but if she was a frequent buyer of alcohol for herself, she might buy a normal item alongside so it wouldn't raise eyebrows. And milk is a very cheap and normal seeming item. Even in that situation, it'd be a reflex to do that, chuck something 'normal' in with the wine. That's not me assuming anything about her at all, just wondering if that's a possibility.
 
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FFS_stopit

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Two babies dying a week 😞😞 potentially 800 bodies buried and they’ve found 99 so far. Those poor babies and their poor mammies!!

I can’t imagine having to be a part of the team working on this… it would be traumatising beyond belief!

 
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LottieM

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There is an article in the Daily Mail online today where they’ve spoken to the sisters’ stepmother and aunty. Their parents separated and the mother had mental health difficulties. Their girls were teenagers when their mother disappeared, and her body wasn’t recovered from the lake for a couple of months which must have been incredibly traumatic. They then lived with the father and stepmother and had a younger stepsister who lives abroad.
The sisters lived together. They were well educated and had good jobs. None of them had a partner or any friends, according to their relatives. They didn’t drink or go out, apart from to church. The stepmother and aunt don’t know why the sisters went to Brighton and said they can’t recall them ever having been to the seaside in the past except once when they were children. They had no connection to the city. Some speculation that they might have gone to the celebration for David Attenborough’s 100th birthday.
What strikes me is that this is a really unusual scenario. They weren’t in Brighton for a hen do or to go out for the night. It wasn’t a hot summer’s day when you might fancy going for a dip in the sea. It was midweek, middle of the night, and cold. The sisters were found fully clothed and wearing their shoes. They must have planned the trip in advance because the article mentions the police going to a rental property in Brighton where they were staying.
We will likely never know what really happened but to me it seems like the sisters may have tragically planned this.
 
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Boogs

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I’ve been reading about a woman who has gone missing in Coventry. Reanne Coulson has not been seen since 21st May. Her family tried to report her missing but as she lives a chaotic life (addiction issues and sex work) they said they had to wait a month despite the family saying her not being in contact was out of character. Earlier this week they arrested a man on suspicion of kidnap and murder who is now on bail and yesterday they arrested another man on suspicion of murder. My heart breaks for her family. The life she was living makes her so much more vulnerable, the concerns from the family should have been taken seriously at the start. It makes me think of the ‘milk carton kids’ who weren’t seen as being at risk due to being ‘streetwise’ despite their young age. No trace of them has ever been found.
 
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Aussie

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The case about the young girl found dead in Scotland & her father being arrested is really odd. I know as it's just a recent thing, there hasn't been much released. Apart from they were camping on an industrial estate & other people taken to hospital. So devastating for those who loved her
 
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ahtisyourself

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All of that can be true.. but why is there no recent photos of them anywhere? Using an AI generated photo and a picture from 20 years ago is of course going to provoke questions. Did they work? Have friends? The whole thing is baffling. Who were these girls? For the 3 of them to have no social media presence whatsoever or have anyone vouch for who they were is what is making people curious.
 
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Dinate

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A bit of news in respect of the death of poor Daniel Aruebose:


So his father is being deported from Brazil for 'immigration related issues'. At least that stops the need for a long extradition process which may have been made harder because of lack of evidence. Daniel's mother was arrested on suspicion of murder earlier this week but has been released without charge.

Seeing this news reminded me that there's been no progress in the case of Kyran Durnin. It's beginning to look like his mother will get away with whatever part she played in his disappearance/death.

I still find both cases unfathomable and devastatingly sad. And it will be an absolute travesty if no-one is brought to account for their deaths. They deserve so much more than their deaths to have been unnoticed for so long and then to go unpunished.
 
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Dinate

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Talking of missing children in Australia, there is a possible development in the Cheryl Grimmer case. The Police have found 'an area of interest' which they will be searching further tomorrow:


This area was described in great detail in the 1971 confession from the man who was eventually charged with Cheryl's murder in 2017: the case collapsed because the confession was ruled inadmissible. Shockingly, the area has never been searched before. In 1971, the Police dismissed the confession at the time without searching the area. And they obviously didn't search the area when they decided to charge the suspect in 2017. I find this astounding.

Her poor brother, Ricki Nash, actually hopes that nothing is found here and I understand why. He has lived with unbearable guilt for decades. If it transpires that the family could have known conclusively that she was dead and be able to have a funeral for her and most importantly most likely have the killer caught and sentenced in 1971, that would be unspeakable torment for Ricki on top of everything. And of course, even in 2017, if the Police had found evidence then, I'm sure they could have built a case even if the confession itself was ruled inadmissible.

Given the unprecedented interest at the time, it's mindboggling that the Police chose to dismiss the confession without even searching this area.
 
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