LT is a pre-teen now, no doubt with access to social media and the internet in general. She will be able to read everything, to listen to all interviews/podcasts, she will even have overheard things from FC’s and possibly from birth parents if contact has been maintained all these years. The emotional damage can’t be underestimated. She has experienced significant trauma throughout her life, being removed from the care of the people who she has regarded as her parents since early childhood contributes to that too. Add to this the ‘normal’ teen hormones and angst, and we have a very vulnerable young lady. I hope she is getting the best care and support social services have available. She and her brother absolutely deserved better from all adults and professionals in their lives.
Way back in September I did wonder whether LT was the ‘new’ witness MSM alluded to, had she remembered something from that day? I even wondered whether FGM had left a confession of sorts on her deathbed. I don’t believe either of those scenarios now. I don’t think there is any ‘new’ evidence or witness, I think it has been a last ditch effort so to speak, LE have gone back to the beginning and attempted to address any questions/inconsistencies highlighted by lawyers at the inquest.
My instinct is that William’s case has deteriorated into bitter political and professional rivalry that doesn’t actually hold him at the centre. Not truly. I fear we will never know what happened to him.
