Unfortunately HT, although on a much smaller scale, when my daughter was in the public eye, every shithouse out there is up for selling a story and equally as bad there are still editors prepared to pay out for the said tales.
Another related theory re knife crime, you reap what you sow, Thatcher and co, drastically cut funding in inner city youth projects from May 1979 onwards, youth clubs, youth centres, cultural centres etc, and 40 years on many of those inner cities are ravaged with knife crime and a gang culture...
And in 2019 (pre covid) the annual adult suicide rate in England and Wales was around 5,500, given the current government’s “pull up the ladder”attitude to Mental Health, you could argue a proportion of this figure could almost be classed as ‘State Murder’?
And on the back of what happened with the McCanns we ended up with Shannon Matthews situation where incredibly thick people thought they could execute the perfect crime and make money out of it. 🤷♂️
As a nation don't we almost revel in a mystery?
We've apparently got record levels of child poverty, one more mortgage rate rise and we could see a huge number of snatch backs, the NHS is going to ratshit in front of us, strikes right across British society, yet a random woman going missing...
A classic case of the media enforcing their preferred narrative on us.
Even by his own admission he was a bit of an oddball, but parade the oddball on TV and get everyone saying he did it 🙈
Exactly the conversation in my office yesterday amongst my female staff.
But is that the cynical nature that festers inside us?
Huntley, Stuart Hazell and numerous others, the old bill have been extremely clever in flushing out killers with the help of the media, but what about when we get...