So it’s the day after PR was sentenced. It wasn’t long enough in my eyes, but he is in jail for a very long time. It was an emotional couple of days after a very long week waiting for the jury to come back with a verdict. I joined this site because of Libby like so many of you did. I had lurked for a while since the Mollie Tibetts case, but something about Libby going missing got to me and made me join. I think it was because similar to Lisa I’m a mum of four and one of my daughters is a month younger than Libby. In fact it was my daughter that originally told me about Libby going missing. My daughter would regularly go home in a taxi very drunk alone after a night out and Libby going missing in similar circumstances scared her and ever since then she has stopped doing it. I also had links to Hull with my mum and family coming from there. And finally I am someone with a past history of self harm and mental health issues who was able to move on from those dark times.
It’s been a long two years waiting to get to this point and throughout it all Libby has never been far from my thoughts and also how her family and especially her mum must have been feeling. I have followed many many cases on here since joining, but Libby has affected me more than any other and I will never forget her.
At this time I want to thank all of you on here for going through the last two years with me and I have valued all the work that you have all put into the case, from maps, to photos, to videos, to explaining the law, to discussing ideas, to taking flowers to the bench and mostly to remembering at the end of it a young woman with her whole life ahead of her went missing and all we collectively wanted was to get her found and returned to her family. Sadly the outcome wasn’t one we all had hoped for in the early days, but I’m glad at least she was found before she ended up forever in the North Sea. My own daughter now has a job and has just bought her first house and car. Libby will never be able to do those things. That makes me sad and my thoughts are with the Squire family as they try and move forward.
I will miss you guys and I hope to see some of you on other cases in the future.