OK - here’s an interesting theory for you based - needless to say - on purely fictitious set of circumstances and [libel lawyers please note] not on anything currently in the news:
imagine a couple on a foreign holiday with their small children. the parents, being a pair of fuckwitts, decide to go out for a meal one night, leaving their three year old daughter and even younger son alone in their holiday apartment. when the parents return home that night they discover, to their horror, that the wee girl has had some kind of accident - perhaps fallen down the stairs or knocked some heavy object over on top of herself - and she is dead!
the parents now have two choices:
* they can either call the authorities, ‘fess up to their negligence and take whatever punishment is due to them for leaving two infants alone in an apartment in a foreign country, while they went out enjoying themselves.
or…
* they can dispose of the body and then call the authorities claiming that their daughter has been abducted and thereafter take every opportunity to help in stirring up a media whirlwind, intended to throw suspicion on someone… anyone.. anywhere in europe and turn the finger of blame away from themselves.
of course, as i say, this is a purely fictitious set of circumstances i just made up - i’m sure it would never happen in real life. but it makes you wonder doesn’t it, what it would be like when the truth eventually came out. methinks a lot of tabloid journalists’ faces would suddenly look very eggy indeed!
02 September 2007 at 13:12
here’s another [completely fictitious!] thought:
imagine the completely fictitious parents of the completely fictitious disappeared child were something to do with the medical profession and had access to drugs. they might even have given the children a wee noggin of something to keep them quiet for a couple of hours, while the parents buggered off out for their meal.
imagine they misjudged the dosage and returned to find one of the children dead or maybe misjudged it the other way so that, one of the children, rather than remaining sound asleep, woke up during their absence and fell down the stairs in its drugged state.
in those [completely fictitious!] circumstances, the parents wouldn’t only be facing a charge of neglecting the children, they’d possibly be looking at a ‘murder rap’ - all the more reason to try and convince the world that the child had been abducted.
12 September 2007 at 10:31
hmmm, looks like you may have been right
23 October 2007 at 13:49
Hit the nail on the head there mate.
Definately dead, definately been disposed of by her ‘grieving parents’.