Found Deceased UK - Leah Croucher, 19, Emerson Valley, Milton Keynes, 14 Feb 2019 #4

[Jenesaisquoi]

Thinking of Leah and her family on Leah’s 21st birthday.

 

[Skigh]

Happy 21st Birthday Leah. We are still thinking of you and trying to find out why you disappeared.
Also thinking of your family and the pain they are suffering.

 

[Alyce]

Apologies for the link - but can't see anyone else reporting it so far. This is Claire's letter to Leah, today, on her 21st birthday.



Dear Leah,
Today is your 21st birthday. It should have been a day of excitement, a day I was hoping to keep the promise I made to you four years ago at your brother Haydon’s surprise 21st party.

That day I crossed my fingers and hid them behind my back as I smiled and said, “I promise I will not throw you a surprise birthday party on your 21st. We will go on holiday instead.”

Leah, I had no intention of ever keeping that promise.

Yes, we wanted to take you on holiday, we wanted to take you to Costa Rica for your 21st.

But I was planning one big surprise party before we went, with family and friends all there to help celebrate.





Leah Croucher's heartbroken mum pens letter to missing daughter on her 21st

 

[Alyce]

Adding these words from Claire's letter - let's hope the person or persons responsible might see them, somewhere....



But if the worst has happened and you cannot come home, this is my message to the person responsible: It may take time, but you will be caught.


You have destroyed my happy family. We will never heal from the needless and heinous pain you have caused.


Leah Croucher's heartbroken mum pens letter to missing daughter on her 21st

 

[dotr]

Aug 14 2020
Leah Croucher's mum writes her daughter a heartbreaking letter on her 21st birthday today in Milton Keynes
''And, in a bid to spread the appeal to find Leah as far and wide as possible, the Citizen helped the family get the letter in The Sun newspaper, which has a circulation of more than 32 million readers worldwide.''

''We had a meal with family for your 18th — that is what you wanted. You were never one to look for attention.

Always trying to hide in the corner, usually attached to you phone.

You like a family party, you just don’t want to be the reason it is being held.''
''Tomorrow it is another milestone in your disappearance — you will have been missing exactly 18 months.

On Friday, February 15, last year you woke about ten minutes after we left the house to go to work.

You got ready for work, opened the curtains, made your bed and left the house at your usual time.

CCTV caught you walking, on your phone as usual. We know you sent Snapchat streaks to friends as always. And then you vanished.''
''Roughly 15 minutes after being captured on CCTV your phone was switched off and it has never been turned on or used in any way again.''

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

Claire's letter is heartbreaking.

Thinking of Leah and Haydon and their families and friends.

 

[JosieJo]

I do wish some information would come to light

 

[crazychris]

Terribly sad case. Personally I don't think MrX, Choudhary had anything to do with her disappearance. Cops aren't stupid and the judge told her brother they'd investigated him. If they suspected him the'd have had him in, search warrant and turned his house,car, PC, laptop etc over. I think it was a stranger abduction. Just my own thoughts.

Think she had an Admin job. Wonder if she had a close work-mate that she may have confided in about him. Isn't it said most of the office knew about them? Suppose police will have spoken to them all.

 

[Atoz]

Terribly sad case. Personally I don't think MrX, Choudhary had anything to do with her disappearance. Cops aren't stupid and the judge told her brother they'd investigated him. If they suspected him the'd have had him in, search warrant and turned his house,car, PC, laptop etc over. I think it was a stranger abduction. Just my own thoughts.

Think she had an Admin job. Wonder if she had a close work-mate that she may have confided in about him. Isn't it said most of the office knew about them? Suppose police will have spoken to them all.

A friend or friend of the family she confided in I think is a possibility.

I think stranger abduction is the least likely though. Statistically I think it's more likely to be someone the person knows. And when you add in the secret liaisons, the secret hotel meetings, the turning off of the GPS on her phone the day before when she then went to meet someone that wasn't who she told her parents it was....there's just too much that points to that relationship.

Like I say, I don't think Mr X did it. I'm sure he has a rock solid aliby. However, i think from the information we have, her disappearance is most likely to be connected to that relationship.

 

[crazychris]

Like I say, I don't think Mr X did it. I'm sure he has a rock solid aliby. However, i think from the information we have, her disappearance is most likely to be connected to that relationship.

Yes you're probably right.

What if she'd told Mr. X the night before that she was pregnant. That would maybe be enough when he was engaged, a Muslim, to make someone get rid of her. Having a liaison is one thing but pregnancy when he's getting married opens up a whole new nasty can of worms. She may have demanded that he'd stick by her, break off his engagement or she'd tell all. Just thinking aloud here.

 

[HongKongPhooey]

Yes you're probably right.

What if she'd told Mr. X the night before that she was pregnant. That would maybe be enough when he was engaged, a Muslim, to make someone get rid of her. Having a liaison is one thing but pregnancy when he's getting married opens up a whole new nasty can of worms. She may have demanded that he'd stick by her, break off his engagement or she'd tell all. Just thinking aloud here.

Def v credible possibility IMO.

I do think something triggered a reaction in that wider family of Mr X.

 

[crazychris]

This is sort of where my train of thought is leading. I know it’s not a popular opinion, and I’m sure I’ll be proved wrong eventually, but I’ve always though there was someone entirely different involved in this, not connected to X.

I’m have to say, I’m also quite uncomfortable with the endless speculation that Leah was pregnant. Just because she was young and female, it doesn’t automatically follow that she was careless. There are lots of reasons for something bad to happen to a woman, and focusing on pregnancy seems rather stereotypical.

Wouldn't the police ask her mum if she thought she may be pregnant? I'm sure they would. Also wouldn't they search her room, maybe find pregnancy test, contraceptive pills? I know they'd take her laptop, PC etc. Am not sure here in the UK if they can ask for medical records of a missing person or if they need a magistrates warrant for that. Would her GP talk to them or just plead patient confidentiality? Have read most threads and not seen these points mentioned anywhere.

I agree with you. Am thinking it's nothing to do with X at all and that's all a big red herring that the police have rightly discounted early on, despite her brother's opinions.

 

[Skigh]

What if she'd told Mr. X the night before that she was pregnant. That would maybe be enough when he was engaged, a Muslim, to make someone get rid of her. Having a liaison is one thing but pregnancy when he's getting married opens up a whole new nasty can of worms. She may have demanded that he'd stick by her, break off his engagement or she'd tell all. Just thinking aloud here.[/QUOTE]

I think this is highly probable.Leah most likely had only recently told MrX and not yet mentioned it to anyone else.With over the counter accurate tests I doubt she would have consulted her doctor.

 

[HongKongPhooey]

Wouldn't the police ask her mum if she thought she may be pregnant? I'm sure they would. Also wouldn't they search her room, maybe find pregnancy test, contraceptive pills? I know they'd take her laptop, PC etc. Am not sure here in the UK if they can ask for medical records of a missing person or if they need a magistrates warrant for that. Would her GP talk to them or just plead patient confidentiality? Have read most threads and not seen these points mentioned anywhere.

I agree with you. Am thinking it's nothing to do with X at all and that's all a big red herring that the police have rightly discounted early on, despite her brother's opinions.

I personally do not think a GP would know that a patient was pregnant. Even 20+ years ago, my GP asked had I done a ClearBlue test and accepted that without arranging another one. You don't need a GP to tell you. Also,I doubt Leah was taking the contraceptive pill. This is a v young, naive and inexperienced girl. If she was, it could have been prescribed for medical reasons - it is quite often used to help regulate monthly cycles for teenage girls who are suffering. So IMO medical records may not help at all.

There is a Boots on Westcroft, which is walkable from Furzton (it's a fair walk, but do-able). That Boots also has a customer toilet. It is very feasible to me that Leah went there one evening (open til 8pm), bought a test, did the test... And totally panicked.

JMO

 

[Skigh]

I was thinking that Leah might have wanted to get pregnant in the hope that Mr X might break off his engagement and be with her.
Mr X could have told Leah that the family wanted the marriage but he was not over keen on it but he could not back out without a very good reason.
Moo

 

[SpursGyal]

Hi! I’ve just jumped over from another case... (well a few days ago, but I wanted to read through the threads before I posted)

I really don’t think she has left willingly. No matter where she is, she would be aware of the appeals and police activity, she could at any time present at any police station and confirm she’s alive and well, they don’t have to tell her family where she is, just that she’s alive.

I don’t think suicide is a feasible option, when my family member attempted, there was a degree of forward planning, where as this is just a normal day for Leah, why leave for work and take your normal route/timings if you never intended to get there?

I think the lake a Furzton was a regular meeting spot and it could be wholly possible that she didn’t turn her location services off, but someone else did under the rouse of doing something on her phone. It takes literally seconds, in prep for later events.

The Valentine’s Day ‘date’ sounds far from, quick, dressed in ‘lounging’ wear, I do think there is some weight to the suggestion she could be pregnant, the timing of a known overnight stay, with a early response test, could be quite telling. Interestingly my first symptoms were disliking the smell of some of my favourite food... could that be the reason she opted for takeaway? Could the meet that night be a ‘what are we going to do’ meet, after already discussing it in the day. If she was, I imagine her boyfriend would have been opposed, considering the repercussions on him.

I think she got into a car willingly, around the Bickleigh crescent\ Dulverton Drive area, I have no idea why, but this area just stood out to me from the start. I think she knew the person in the car, but I don’t believe it was who she was romantically linked with. I know her phone switched off near the lake, but it could have been coincidence with driving.

I think the answer lays with Mr X, but not in his hands.
But sadly, I think Leah isn’t with us anymore, and possibly wasn’t by the time she was noticed as missing.

*Sorry for the long post, just thought it best to get my musings out in one go.

My heart breaks for her family, I cannot begin to imagine the pain they have and are still living daily.

All, IMO of course.

 

[Kitkat28]

I think the lake a Furzton was a regular meeting spot and it could be wholly possible that she didn’t turn her location services off, but someone else did under the rouse of doing something on her phone. It takes literally seconds, in prep for later events.

Just wondering - have there been any reported sightings of Leah (or someone who might look like her) either alone or with a boy/man at Furzton Lake any other time apart from the day in question?

 

[SpursGyal]

Just wondering - have there been any reported sightings of Leah (or someone who might look like her) either alone or with a boy/man at Furzton Lake any other time apart from the day in question?

I don’t think I’ve seen anything mentioning it.

 

[BrianJohnson]

I think either X or Mrs X knows exactly what happened

Only 2 possibilities for me

1) Mrs X found out about the affair and a member of her family took care of the ‘problem’

2) Or more likely a member of X’s family did either on his behalf without X knowing or with his consent

I think personally the following happened....

Leah told X she was pregnant, they argued about what to do about it and Leah said to X she will tell his wife (hence crying girl by the lake) X says to her he is off work so lets meet and talk this through like adults, my relative is a taxi driver he will pick you up and we will meet and chat (X’s family own a taxi firm), taxi driver picks Leah up, taxi driving relative of X kills her either because X told him to deal with her or because he didn’t want anything coming in the way of the arranged marriage/family honour and X only found out later that he killed Leah

I doubt X personally carried out the killing of Leah, but he knows exactly what happened

 

[crazychris]

She definitely hasn't left willingly. I'd stake my life on that. The reason why I'm so sure, without being involved of course!? She'd have come forward when her brother died, to lessen her family's suffering a bit.