Alyce
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Was the trip to the fair before any of the police searches of Gran's house?
Does anyone know whose phone was apparently left charging at CS's house - NS or Tia's? The 'dead phone' story - much like the 'see you at 6pm' story (on Thurs/Fri) - has been mentioned by both DN and SH. Could they have colluded on the 'story' but then one or both of them messed up in the retelling of it?
Interesting that DN is not a suspect (as far as we know) - presumably has a watertight alibi for Friday - but we don't actually know who saw her last - or when this was. Last CCTV was on Thursday in a shop - so no evidence that she actually made it as far as CS house on Thurs (alive).
If whatever happened occurred on Thursday as opposed to Friday - leaving 24 hours to agree a story - this might explain why Tia was reported missing so early on Friday (early as in just a few hours after she supposedly went missing and not after all other possibilities - friends/neighbours etc - had been exhausted).
Thank you so much for posting - thought I was going mad.
Perhaps they had the same model 'phones and just swapped the Sim cards? Not sure permission would be required for that.
ETA: Just noticed SallyLu's post above (although did suggest same many pages back).
I couldn't recall who it was. Thank you Adorabella.
MOO. For my money I think we're making it too complicated. MOO.
TS may have been acting cheeky. SH might have been on something or maybe withdrawing from something and things got out of hand.
Only problem I have with my thoughts is - wouldn't it then be a charge of manslaughter and not murder?
Ages ago I posted that I was under the impression (from what DN had himself said) that he was expecting Tia at home in Mitcham by 6pm on Thursday night. I assumed she'd changed her mind and suddenly decided to stay with Gran instead of going home. Other posters pointed out it was sloppy reporting (which is quite common!) and that he was actually repeating what SH had said and was referring to her being at Gran's house by 6pm. But it does now seem that he was talking about Tia going back to her own home that night, not Gran's. Lots of discrepancies right from the early stages from more than one member of the family.So both families were expecting her home at 6.00pm :waitasec: do I believe they were all having a family supper together, or they'd both been primed to mention 6.00pm in a premeditated convoluted story?
It also seems strange that the validation of a friend of Tia staying over at NS/SC's Thursday night to Friday morning seems to have been out of the news.
So both families were expecting her home at 6.00pm :waitasec: do I believe they were all having a family supper together, or they'd both been primed to mention 6.00pm in a premeditated convoluted story?
It also seems strange that the validation of a friend of Tia staying over at NS/SC's Thursday night to Friday morning seems to have been out of the news.
Ages ago I posted that I was under the impression (from what DN had himself said) that he was expecting Tia at home in Mitcham by 6pm on Thursday night. I assumed she'd changed her mind and suddenly decided to stay with Gran instead of going home. Other posters pointed out it was sloppy reporting (which is quite common!) and that he was actually repeating what SH had said and was referring to her being at Gran's house by 6pm. But it does now seem that he was talking about Tia going back to her own home that night, not Gran's. Lots of discrepancies right from the early stages from more than one member of the family.
The schoolgirl’s father, David Niles, said that he had not slept since Friday awaiting news.
“We are all just in bits,” he said.
“She’s a sweet little girl, she has never been in any trouble, she is a good girl - this just isn’t my little girl.”
He added: “She said she was going out to get some flip flops.
“Last time I saw her was on Thursday morning as I was going to work, she was asleep at the time.
“She went to her nan's that day and was going to come back on Monday.”
Don't worry. I've read every post too, but can't remember them all because there's so much information! I agree that the 6pm home time being a ground rule applies to a functional and responsible family, definitely not Tia's family. I wouldn't rule out a schoolboy error either. I'm sure they were having trouble trying to remember all the details and just screwed some of them up.Sorry Soozie, thought I'd read the whole lot of posts,it does seem a bit of a schoolboy error for both of them to say they expected her home at 6pm.
Edit: It could be that the ground rule regardless of who she was stopping with that evening for tea or sleeping, that 6.00pm was the expected time, so it might have changed from "coming home" to "staying at Grans" during that Friday, but this would all point to a functional family who had the same expectations and rules in place. Ho hum.
Hi - have I got my days mixed up: According to DN, Tia was expected home by 6pm on Thursday and then went to SH/CS place. If so, why did Tia stay overnight at SH/CS Thursday night if she was expected home at her mother and DN's place by 6pm? When did that plan change? It was Friday night that Tia was expected home by 6pm at SH/CS place.
On Thursday, Tia met SH and then went to the co-op where the CCTV image we have seen came from. Do we know for certain that Tia actually went to SH/CS place on the Thursday? On that afternoon, CS would have been in bed sleeping prior to a nightshift. Do we only have SH's word that he and Tia came back to the house on Thursday and were in all night.
Have I got that right - sorry - my head is spinning a bit.
Apart from a poor cctv image of Tia at the co-op there have been no reported sightings of Tia from any one else since she left her home on Thursday.
The police have not issued any other cctv images,no neighbours have been said to have seen her except the two reports of her leaving on Friday .
From what I have read it does not appear as if CS was at home when Tia arrived on Thursday.
When she left the house she shouted 'Bye' and 'See you by six'.
She went to her nan's that day and was going to come back on Monday