Rivers are complex things, they’re not bathtub shaped, they have undercrofts, things to be snagged on, pinned under, caught up in. It could be something else breaks loose, changes the dynamic and something moves again.
And the nonsense continues ...
And the nonsense continues ...
Miss Maple was an amateur wasn’t she?
I think we should wait for the facts to emerge before slagging everyone off. I very much doubt that the body was visible for three weeks, it is possible of course, but unlikely.
Can’t be sure of that until the full facts are known (if they ever will be). Body being visible now doesn’t mean it was days ago when the search was being conducted, and may not have been in the river at the time. SGI provided their services free of charge btw.
Agreed.
The Private company have been absolute bellends
It was a large volume of opaque flowing water, in cold conditions and inherently dangerous for divers. Almost a needle in a haystack.
Yep that was my linguistic point but take “pound shop Miss Marple” if you prefer. Either way it’s distasteful. Probably doesn’t matter on here but imagine what this is doing to her family.and the police investigation
From what I’ve understood they weren’t deployed/asked by the police to search a very long stretch……..may be that she was already beyond their search area.
The caveat here is 'Within the search area'.
In this case, 23 days later isn’t it? That just doesn’t sit right with me. They’ve had all these amateur sleuths (knobs) and a professional dive team + sonar radar and observed nothing. I did say in my earlier post and doing a bit of research it seems highly unlikely a body wouldn’t have floated to the surface within days, unless it was weighed down by a cast iron girder, even snagged bodies tend to come loose with the decomposition.
Indeed. Our rivers are amazing things…….I fish a lot, not sure if people generally understand what they can be like below the surface. Depths vary massively often within a very short distance, there are underwater obstructions all over the place, the banks you stand on may be undercut by several feet of very deep water, flows vary enormously depending on rainfall (and tides where rivers are tidal as was the case here), there are vortexes and whirlpools that are extremely powerful and this time of year the temperature of the water is such it could cause a heart attack almost on entry with the shock (and even if not, hypothermia will get you in minutes).
Not you, but that’s just speculation from the army of Facebook and Twatter folk who took an overly keen interest in the disappearance of a photogenic white women. Not helped by her ‘best friends’ who in the first few days went out of their very opinionated way to tell hacks there was no way she’d entered the river other than by foul play. They talked of her perfect life. Revealing we now know that they knew very little. As a result of all that the area became a magnet for busybodies. The police and property owners revealed break ins by these idiots.
Thank you, Superintendent Slack.
