I follow you now TF. I think lack of criticism from N and visiting landfill privately is her way of drawing back from the media now. I don't know the reason for this but it looks like she is winding the media aspect down IMO, understandably.
Everything has changed with the discovery that the bin weight was wrong. From late October three things were established that made third party involvment and hence foul play extremely likely.
1. Corrie couldn't have left on foot
2. He wasn't in the bin
3. His phone did leave, probably in the bin
It appears from the outside that the investigation didn't accelerate at that point. N, given her career, was probably aware how damaging "not knowing" could be to her well being, and evidently felt that a media campaign was needed to prompt the police into action. This seems to have worked as we saw activity stepping up in January.
Now, of course, we know that no 2. was false. And that in all probability we are looking at a tragic accident, it's no wonder that as you put it, she's "understandably" winding down the media campaign.
As for NU criticizing the police - we have to distinguish between bemoaning the lack of resources made available and critiquing the efforts that were made. I don't think it's too early for the former. It's pretty clear to me that things were being done since January that should have been done in late October (such as forensically searching the buildings Corrie could have accessed). Suggesting police resource shortages as the cause is hardly reaching:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ngerous-practices-austerity-cuts-diane-abbott
I'm not sure what MM is getting at, it strikes me as a bit of needle between exes who really don't get on.
One other thing. I've gone back to lurking here recently, and I've seen a few posts expressing disbelief that Corrie would have got in the bin. Aside from the fact that a cardboard bin could be quite clean, sleeping in bins is not just for the homeless. I'm sure these will have been mentioned here before but you have the horrific case of Garrett Elsey, a 22 year old Canadian student in Bristol:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Elsey-went-sleep-bin-crushed-death-truck.html
But the one that reminded me of this case was that of Chris Ogden in Huddersfield:
The inquest in Bradford heard Mr Ogden, who had a son, two, had fallen asleep in a club during the night out and rowed with door staff. He was caught on CCTV staggering in the town center and had fallen asleep while leaning on a door. Just before 5am CCTV captured him climbing on top of the skip.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/young-man-crushed-to-death-in-bin-wagon-1-6357646
As I said, Occams razor suggests a tragic accident, but I can't help but think how ironic it would be if there was foul play, and it was only uncovered because of an investigation stepped up because a young member of staff at Biffa made a mistake.
A last thought - there's been a little outrage at recycling going to landfill, a suggestion that Biffa may have cut corners. It's really not in their interest - it costs them to dump waste in a landfill, where as they get revenue from recycling (I recently read an interesting article on how Chinese recycling firms pay better than ours, with waste being shipped there on what would otherwise be empty container ships). Also, recycling capacity is finite and requires capital investment - it won't be sized around peak supply from waste firms, but demand for the recycled product. It's inevitable that some will go to landfill.
