Recent content by Dan Cooper

It seems very unlikely this would happen. They'd need an appropriate adult and probably an entire social services case team with them, as well as (I'd assume) PA, and given how young they are I don't think that a) they'd be of much use, or b) it would be deemed appropriate to question them...

But could it also just make people put forward false claims? The problem with this case is that there are no clues and no body, so would the police (or family) pay out before NB was found? I don't claim to know how the reward process works in this context.

What brought you to that conclusion? I'm not criticising the idea, I'm just curious.

If this gets deleted then I give up.

I'm British, I was just trying to put on a faux-yokel accent. I don't think buses round my neck of the woods have CCTV - it's only recently they've started taking cards!

Either a family member's FB page, or they bunged a few hundred quid to a friend of NB's.

Very possible of course, but presumably NB's doctor would have been contacted very early on. If, for example, NB has recently been given a breast cancer diagnosis then the police would by now be in possession of that fact. However, what they'd choose to do with that information (if anything) is...

If you want to play the jumping to conclusions game, consider that theory in addition to the drive to meet her boss the night or two before she went missing. It's not an avenue that particularly interests me personally, but you never know with these things.

It could be literally anything. She may need insulin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-64647967

Cadaver dogs are only useful until they point in the 'wrong' direction!

Probably kids dicking around. Was it from NB's actual account, or just a sockpuppet account with her name on?

Thank Christ we have Andre on-board. Now the real detective work can begin.

I read that - twice - as 'provo' :D

I worry that Peter Faulding is perhaps too modest for his own good. We rarely hear about the man or his capabilities, and it's possible that were it not for his colleagues, his quiet, gentle stoicism may have gone unrecognised. In hindsight I regret all the banging of pots and pans for the NHS...