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As soon as the national media became interested in this case, it was blown up to police incompetence, made worse by people like PF and MWT. Even a friend of Nicola's, had a facebook post with 'facts' which she kept updating, but got it wrong that the 'abandoned mansion' had not been searched, it had already been searched at that point. But because she forgot to update that bullet point in her post, the media were still running 'abandoned mansion' articles daily, instead of checking with proper sources, like the police. The friend of Nicola ended up deleting her facebook I believe because of people then criticizing her for not updating the post, it was just a genuine mistake of hers. The media really need to do much more thorough checking of things, even if it comes from friends and family, because it causes the public to believe things incorrectly for days on end.