Apparently the postie was due to visit FGM two days before this happened. It doesn't say whether or not she did, nor whether or not PS knew about it, as far as I can see from the article?
If an old 70 year old nosey neighbour was laying in hiding, my guess is he wouldn't have been able to get up too swiftly, let alone catch up with a running 3 year old who was reportedly full of beans that morning.. and even if and when he did, what would he do then? Grab him, and carry him under his arm with his hand over his mouth to his own home where his wife was trying to set off to bingo? (According to what we've been told, HS left at 10:38, but FD got home at 10:35 and by then he had already disappeared. So seems HS left after W had already been taken, and surely not by her own husband. Where would he have taken him and have no evidence for the K9s to show for it?)
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