Hi - read through this thread with interest. I'm very local to where she lived and went missing - according to the police she walked 200 metres from my house on her last known walk. I don't know her, but I've been following the case closely, and wanted to clear up a few things:
1. It has been weirdly low profile. Other very similar cases have made the national news within a day - it's now been 3 weeks with no real escalation in news spread.
2. It's been quite widely shared on local Facebook groups, although there has been no-one sharing more than has been reported. There are definitely a load of flyers on lampposts and windows.
3. She may have had mental health problems, but this is only word of mouth.
4.Her route took her from the
Shell garage at Farnborough Gate, and apparently
up Hawley Lane to the
crossroads and finally through or near
Hawley Woods. How they know this without her having a mobile phone, I don't know. Maybe CCTV, not that I can think of any on that road? As others have pointed out, some if it doesn't have paths, and some doesn't have lighting. It's not the best route to walk at midnight on your own, especially when you live
nowhere near.
5. 48 hours later, 2 men were arrested trying to abduct a woman at a McDonalds 1/2 mile from Hawley Woods. They have been arrested - but it makes you think.
6. The fact that clothing items (I believe a hat and a phone/scarf/gloves depending on reports) were found in the woods has never been officially released as information.
7. Fleet Pond is not near these last sightings, and in a different direction from her house.
8. It's a relatively peaceful area, and well populated - as others have said, Hawley Woods has a LOT of human traffic, hundreds of even thousands of people and dogs every day. Having said that, it has been home to a few suicides in the last few years. I'm highly surprised, if she is there, that she hasn't been found yet, despite the size of the woods.
9. As others have said, it's hard not to make assumptions on this when there is such little news or facts being released. Walking at midnight, often in pitch black, quite cold weather, on a circuitous route that goes in a radius AROUND her house, on valentine's night, not taking her mobile phone, with a partner at home - it's hard to draw any other conclusions than that she wasn't happy.
10. The weather 24 hours after her appearance until even today has been awful. If she was out in the woods, I doubt she survived. If she has survived, she must have had help, as there's no transport at that time of night. And how could she coordinate help without a mobile phone?
These are my brief thoughts about it. Some interesting (although maybe unverified) facts in this thread - for example, that her parents may be connected to law enforcement (may show why this has been so tightly controlled), that the partner went for a local park run the morning after she disappeared, that there may have been a note with the clothing items (which may explain why the clothing find has not been announced) and that local hotels were told to let her stay (may indicate that they don't think she's died).
If there's someone that reads this and knows a lot more about the case than the public does - if you need our help there NEEDS TO BE MORE INFORMATION RELEASED! If the police are purposedly withholding information, it can only be because they have reason to believe she is still alive, or they believe that someone close knows more than they are letting on.
We hope there is more informtion soon. It makes the local area feel a lot less safe with this hanging over us.