Maddie mccann, she was the same age as my daughter when she was taken and we had a holiday booked the same year. We had two rooms booked, but I was so anxious I kept her in bed with me and my husband. Photographers on the resort kept wanting photos of her for us to buy, but I was convinced it was to sell her!! They kept referring to her blonde hair and blue eyes all the time. The waiters and bar men kept giving her attention and I just couldnt relax the whole time. Im gutted she has never been found and just replay in my head how scared she would have been.
my daughters the same age as her too. we went away about 4 weeks after she disappeared..it definitely made me more cautious and we always made sure someone was by her side. she looked the same as Madeleine..blond bob blue eyes.
we did actually get a lot of stares and interest when out one day..Me and my husband are both dark haired and eyed so she did look quite different to us..she also was going through a wearing sunglasses phase. my Mum was with us and noticed and said take those glasses off of her people are looking because they are keeping a look out for Madeleine and they think your hiding her eyes !
I can never forget the case of Daniel Pelka who was 6 and in the months leading up to his death he was severely beaten and starved by his mum and stepdad. He was so hungry he was caught stealing food from bins at school and apparently looked like a concentration camp victim, but nothing was done. Broke the heart reading about the case and I still get upset thinking about it now
This really affected me too..he was a beautiful little boy. I found it more heartbreaking that he was in reception at the time same as my youngest. the school said they knew nothing about him or his family life when my daughter has spent much of the year doing work about their home, pets family etc. He was eating out of the bins and pinching other childrens food and getting thin..how did this not ring alarm bells with his teachers x
the M5 crash caused by smoke from firework display at a rugby club by side of the motorway mixing with fog. its always stuck in my mind as we drive past it often on way to my Dads. There was an initial crash, then people just plowed into this. A lot of the cars caught fire and some people burnt to death in their cars ..there was some awful footage of drivers from the other side desperately trying to open doors of the crashed cars to get people out.
9/11 - it was just unbelievable watching it unfold. it will always be in my memory ..where i was who i was with. It was also quite hard for me as my bridesmaid was on a business trip to NY at the time and mobile service overseas wasnt great at the time so we didnt know if she was safe or not. thankfully she was and manged to email letting people know she was ok.
Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Hillsborough...I can still see the images of those poor people trapped squashed up against the fencing. The pictures of the two sisters faces that died are the ones that i remeber the most - probably as one was the same age as me.
Dunblane
7/7 bombings
Mikeeal Kular ..Poor little boy who was beaten by his mum and left to die in Scotland. she then put him in a suitcase and dumped his body near her sisters house. it was in new again recently as she is up for release/ parole. he was also a beautiful boy like Daniel and was treated harshly compared to his siblings
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I also can’t believe how long it’s been since it happened.
its impossible to comprehend!
