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He may have been already very obviously dead by the time she checked on him. Neglect leading to death can carry a jail sentence. This then affects the remaining children. I can quite see why some people in this situation might try to escape the blame by some subterfuge.

He was supposedly "unwell" by that time, it's possible that might have dampened him a little. Or he was already sick of his sibling showing off. My friend had two children and the younger was completely disinterested in the messing about of the older, even while we found him hilarious - just...

Thanks greengables. One thing I have read about children's smiles, is that the forced or unfelt smile of an unhappy child tends to show the lower teeth more than the upper. I really really can't spot anything about this little boy, even as late as xmas, that raises any suggestion of...

Please can I have a link to that? <modsnip>

But we do have the eye witness over the road who saw him playing in the window on Monday. That could end up being inaccurate but we can't discount it at this time, and the witness is not thought to have any interest in lying in this case.

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My feeling is that whatever happened happened on the Wednesday. Had they not found the body, and she was still sticking to the story, it would have far too quickly come undone when the police spoke to the other kids and got told he'd not been seen for more than a day. So the longest she could...

I don't think we're allowed to discuss that possibility unless the police name her as a possible suspect.

Oh, no way could his body have been in that room for all that time surely? I mean so much risk one of the other children might have started talking about the locked room and the smell? Of course I can come up with a theory that would include his death on new years eve and disposal the same...

Oh yes! I hadn't thought of it, but you're right!

The next day as I understand it, some hours after discovery.

I think leaving the body where it is for a little while is also partly to do with estimating time of death. They can take the temperature, then again some hours later, and if there is further cooling they can make a backwards graph to work out when it was last at normal body temp. If they...

I did make it clear this particular part of the comment was in relation to making it fairer on the innocent. A lot of people who are detained and subsequently released on police bail never do go on to be charged. That way the police can bring in several people who may be all initial suspects...

No, this case is in Scotland, where I understand there is no such feature. There they get a maximum of 24 hours to question someone before charging them. This means if something comes up in autopsy or searches later, LE are in difficulties! That was my concern wrt this case, that they are...

In a way the English system of police bail where the suspect can be recalled for further questioning seems more practical. Firstly it seems a bit unrealistic to expect an autopsy to be complete in 24 hours, in order to know what happened and ask all the right questions, and secondly, being able...

Sky News rather got ahead of things by putting up a marquee saying she was charged with murder but of course we don't know what exact charge it was. It could be nothing more than wasting police time and preventing lawful disposal of a body (if he died of natural causes for example). They...

Yeah, they said no evidence, not no suspicion :)

I think someone closed Rosie's facebook page now.

If they posted something against FB's TOS, or a real friend of the mother complained, they might have been banned or something. Or maybe someone who was just friends with her to play a FB game and they were not interested in the case and got sick of all the update notifications

Well I wouldn't post anything mean on her facebook page. Remember Chris Jefferies? People do get released without charge and get found innocent and I would not like to post something that is going to upset her even further while she innocently mourns her child. I think I will wait until...