GUILTY UK - Rebecca Watts, 16, Bristol, 19 Feb 2015 #1

[YidArmyRach]

Me 3. I'm watching the football but keep checking the thread on my phone to see if there is any news *sigh*

Off topic, but what team are you following? I'm suffering the Spurs match and another Soldado miss

 

[masekwm]

No tears as the dad wipes his eyes.

 

[skibaboo]

Off topic, but what team are you following? I'm suffering the Spurs match and another Soldado miss

Liverpool still 0-0

 

[NatalieLouiseXx]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-BLOOD-fears-grow-fell-victim-sex-attack.html

Been updated. New info:

# Believe she left home between 11am and 12pm

# Stepmom left for appointment at 10.30am. There were other people in the house when she left. Police are trying to identify whether those people actually saw her leave

# Have yet to identify who last saw her that morning

#No confirmed sightings and not on cctv

# refuse to discuss comments made re time of month or of dad was at home when she was

Thanks for the update hun!

 

[sar2them1984]

No problem. Certain cases just get to you yanno.. think with this one its because of the local connection. Really hope she's found soon x

 

[musicaljoke]

...
I think the biggest problem for her parents, if they have no involvement, is that the picture they have painted of their daughter seems to differ massively to what is coming out now. I thought she was a shy, insecure and socially inept young lady, who rarely ventured from her home, unless accompanied. Now it seems that she had a troubled teenage period, bunked school, failed exams, had difficulties with her parents, and has "disappeared" before (or at least been gone a while without them knowing where she is). Why would anyone describe someone who is missing with no relevance to what they are really like, as surely that would impede the investigation?

Hope my initial suspicions are wrong though, and hope she comes home. Doesn't seem very hopeful

These can be warning signs that a child is being sexually abused. Perhaps not in every case, but one wonders ...

http://www.parentsprotect.co.uk/warning_signs.htm

 

[mayelf]

Wow, I am impressed with the police searches. It still seems odd that they don't have a definite timeline or the last person who saw her - like really really strange considering all the time they are obviously investing in this. Maybe the stepmom saw her at 10:30am and someone else saw her at 11am, then whoever left the home at noon went to say goodbye to her and she wasn't home (or someone arrived home at noon and she wasn't there)?

 

[YidArmyRach]

These can be warning signs that a child is being sexually abused. Perhaps not in every case, but one wonders ...

http://www.parentsprotect.co.uk/warning_signs.htm

Yes that did occur to me (I'm CP trained for my job). I also wondered how the dad knew it was her time of the month. Not something I'd have shared with my dad at 16 (or even now!).

 

[mrazda71]

Just MOO but, I am an empath, it's rare that I can see someone else crying and not be in tears myself and I've got raging pmt and yet ... I wasn't moved at all by the DG's 'dry sobbing' ...

 

[mayelf]

Maybe she needed him to buy her tampons/pads? That was my thought since she doesn't shop.

Oops edited to add, was supposed to quote YidArmyRach,

Yes that did occur to me (I'm CP trained for my job). I also wondered how the dad knew it was her time of the month. Not something I'd have shared with my dad at 16 (or even now!).

 

[YidArmyRach]

Maybe she needed him to buy her tampons/pads? That was my thought since she doesn't shop.

More likely she'd get a girlfriend to do that, I think. Or her mum, or stepmum. It wasn't said she didn't shop, just that she was shy to go to the till, so would make others pay.

 

[musicaljoke]

Fortunately, menstrual blood can be differentialted from non-menstrual blood. If there were used feminine hygiene products in the trash, they can be tested for anything that ought not to be there.

https://www.promega.com/~/media/fil...edings/ishi 22/oral presentations/fleming.pdf

Does anyone know which day the trash would be collected on her street?

 

[CrystalAnn]

Maybe she needed him to buy her tampons/pads? That was my thought since she doesn't shop.

Oops edited to add, was supposed to quote YidArmyRach,

my first thought, and i hate hate HAAATE to say it, is maybe that was his excuse because he knew they would find a bloody pair of her underwear in the search of the house...

 

[webnut]

Step Mum could have mentioned it, if there's a bin in the bathroom to put used sanitary items then it might be known. If Dad does the washing because Step Mum is unable to then he may know for that reason, the strange thing is putting it on FB. IMHO

 

[webnut]

Isnt menstrual blood different to other blood? ie if a bloody item was found they would know if it was menstrual or not after testing it?

 

[mrazda71]

I think his period post was a bit odd but I don't think it's odd at all that he knew she was on her period, my teenage daughter will say "Dad I've got really bad period pain and I'm pretty sure that going to pizza hut will help"

 

[CrystalAnn]

Isnt menstrual blood different to other blood? ie if a bloody item was found they would know if it was menstrual or not after testing it?

according to musicaljokes post a few posts above this one, yes! but he may not have known that. im a female and didnt even know that! but it is good news that there is a difference, for sure.

 

[mrazda71]

Menstrual blood would contain uterine tissue too wouldn't it?

 

[CoverMeCagney]

I didn't realise stepmum had brain surgery a couple of weeks ago. (dads fb post 14/2)

 

[mayelf]

Was the white transit van ever followed up on?

"He also said he had seen a white transit van "hanging around" near the house the day she went missing."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rebecca-watts-missing-dad-posts-5234653#rlabs=2