:greetings: skigh
Nothing of this sits right at all. I hate to say it but I think this is another Shannon Matthews type case. All the drama with the candles and t shirts, very McCann..I think the family - especially the mother and gran know where she is and that's why they are not on TV. I do not think Tia is dead. There is something seriously not right with this family.
A spokesperson or translator or maybe cast-list and stage-manager are needed (half serious here) because the media's making a worse hash of this than usual. Today, I saw the mother's partner referred to twice in one of the online media as ' Mr. Niles'. Then, to compound the confusion, his elderly mother was referred to as ' Mrs. Niles'. His name is actually Niles Taylor, isn't it?
Then we have a large cast of characters. Am tempted to list them but won't, but the step-grandfather has a father of his own (step-great-grandfather ?) who's been quoted by the media as has the step-grandfather's sister, not to mention an assortment of 'uncles'. The 'step-great-grandfather's statements about Tia's alleged last known moments contradict those of his own son (the 'step-grandfather'). Then we have the girl's 'step-father' attesting to the innocence of the 'step-grandfather' (and directly contradicting the 'step-great-grandfather' by insisting the step-grandfather was 'hoovering' - though how the step-father would know that to be the case is a mystery to me, considering he wasn't there according to the media)
The mother claims to have 'an independent witness' (whatever that's supposed to mean) who saw Tia walking down the street on Friday, but other than that, the mother has said little more that I'm aware of
The photo chosen for the T-shirts and posters seems to me to have been poorly chosen, considering it represents a seemingly far younger/less mature Tia than she appears in other photos. Wouldn't you choose a photo as near as possible to the way a missing child appears
now, if you were hoping to jog the memories of people who may have seen her in the last few days?
The grandmother revealed she hadn't been at her house when the child arrived and departed the following day. To my knowledge (limited, obviously) this information wasn't revealed until several days after the event
What a mess. Up to a dozen supposed adults, all of them claiming to have adored the child who between them can't provide a cohesive account of the girl's movements