GUILTY UK - Sian O'Callaghan, 22, Swindon, Wiltshire, 19 March 2011

[Cherwell]

Thank you, Paulette, that's very useful. Confirms that "Missing" is definitely 'missing' from my screen on the forums page, too, - now that I can see where it should be. (No sign of 'Located Forum Discussion' on the forums page either.)

 

[whiterum]

The Sun Update the victim is not an outstanding missing person

Detective Supt Steve Fulcher - whose men last month arrested a local cabbie for Sian's murder - said the tragic news had been broken to the girl's mum and close relatives. She is believed to have told her family in 2003 that she was leaving home to pursue a career in London.

Mr Fulcher sought to reassure people worried about the fate of loved ones, saying: "It's not any outstanding missing person, so it's not their relative."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3509582/Sian-OCallaghan-cops-ID-buried-body-No2.html

 

[lalalemon]

Gosh, that makes it even more sad they've been gone all these years and nobody has been missing them at all!

Rest in Peace now Eastleach Lady.... I do so hope we can give you a name soon. You so deserve it. My thoughts are with you xxxxx

 

[whiterum]

Gosh, that makes it even more sad they've been gone all these years and nobody has been missing them at all!

Rest in Peace now Eastleach Lady.... I do so hope we can give you a name soon. You so deserve it. My thoughts are with you xxxxx

It is the saddest thing, totally shocking that this poor young lady was for eight years buried in that field, not too far away from her mother, her family and they had no idea she may have come to harm.

CH is a disgusting liar. This woman was apparently local, he was probably taking her somewhere in his taxi and the poor girl told him she was on her way to London to look for work, the perfect victim.

 

[Clio]

Media are expecting a press briefing today at 12 noon UK time

http://twitter.com/jonkay01/statuses/55193693325496320

 

[lalalemon]

I truly hope they will finally let us know who this poor lady is. Feel so much for her family and friends, and for her.... eight long years and nobody to so much as miss or grieve her.

 

[Cherwell]

I think it will turn out to be the Vietnamese girl.

 

[whiterum]

Not an 'unknown lady' now she is Rebecca Godden from Swindon.

 

[Clio]

It was her birthday yesterday - she would have been 29

 

[whiterum]

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/8954778.BREAKING_NEWS__Second_victim_named_in_double_murder_inquiry/

Photo of Rebecca as a bridesmaid

 

[kINGFISHER]

Not a name anyone has mentioned, truly terrible . Can we believe CH is the only one involved in this. Each case blows to the head, it does seem more and more possible now that he could be MHs killer. Is this another case of not reported missing ?

 

[lalalemon]

Rest in Peace sweet Becky.... you deserved better. Glad your family will finally have some closure after what most have been an absolutely harrowing, heartbreakingly long time!

 

[badhorsie]

Not an 'unknown lady' now she is Rebecca Godden from Swindon.

Thanks for that White Rum
Now I am going to have a rant, the Missing Person situation in the UK stinks.
I have searched extensively for missing persons in Swindon and Wiltshire and this girls name was not there, Why not? It is NOT good enough
The press are selective when people go missing
Jo yeates
Suzi Lamplugh
Madeleine McCann
Claudia Lawrence
Sian O'Calligan
Loads of press help, all white,female, intelligent, photogenic and of a certain class
Becky Godden-Edwards., same ilk but where was the publicity for her?

Look on the Missing People Website and see all the missing people of various ethnicities, I have read about none of them in the press. I also didn't see Becky G E there

I believe that we need a national, searchable register of all people reported missing and that local newspapers should have an obligation to feature local missing people.
I think that the police here and press take us all for a bunch of fools who cannot be trusted with any information

 

[wfgodot]

Lengthy, informative Guardian article

Sian O'Callaghan police name second woman

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Exactly when she disappeared remains unclear. The source said she was a "beautiful" girl – "petite, blonde and pretty" from a "lovely" family.

"It's a crying shame she came to this."
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In her early 20s Becky became "disconnected" from her family having developed a drug addiction. This led to a "downward spiral" and she began leading a "chaotic lifestyle". Police are looking at the suggestion that she may have worked as a prostitute though they have no proof that this is correct.

She was on the DNA database having committed a crime. When she was 19 she admitted burgling the Trout Inn at Lechlade in Gloucestershire and stealing 100 packets of cigarettes and £25 in cash.
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much more at link above, including another picture; requiescat in pace, Rebecca

 

[Cherwell]

Loads of press help, all white,female, intelligent, photogenic and of a certain class
Becky Godden-Edwards., same ilk but where was the publicity for her?

To be fair, all the people you mention disappeared suddenly without warning. It's rather different when someone drifts away from their family, falls out with them or slips into an irregular lifestyle.

I do agree the 'Missing Persons' website leaves a lot to be desired, I didn't find it at all user-friendly when I visited it the other day.

I have searched extensively for missing persons in Swindon and Wiltshire and this girls name was not there, Why not? It is NOT good enough

I can only assume that she was presumed missing from Bristol as that is where her family thought she had gone. It's not very helpful to categorise missing people by area as they can be anywhere, of course.

 

[wfgodot]

Here's a new WS thread for Rebecca:

UK - Rebecca Godden-Edwards, 21, Eastleach, Gloucestershire 26 March 2011

 

[Firefly75]

The 'Missing People' UK website is not perfect, I agree. Much as I appreciate it, when it comes to information about the missing person, I somehow prefer the doenetwork.org and the way they list missing people, as they give more information and they do the reconstructions and age progressions. Some sites seem to have a policy of giving only the most basic information and being very discreet about it.

Part of the problem, however, is that families sometimes don't report someone as missing as they seem to accept that someone has moved somewhere else and lost touch, or joined a sect, or any number of reasons you can think of. Sites like Missing People also have certain criteria which they apply when they decide whether or not to list a person on the site.
Another problem regarding this (which I remember especially from working on a support line) is that people tend to think that the police will sort it all out after they've filled a missing person report with them; this is not automatically the case everywhere.
Sometimes it can be very difficult to get someone listed as missing, especially if they are not underage and LE say they probably left of their own free will; if they're underage but have a history of running away, or it is thought by LE that they likely just ran away. Sometimes, it's impossible to get a person listed on a 'missing' site unless LE say they think the person isn't missing of their own free will. It can take an awfully long time for that to happen.
Not all sites include medical information such as depression etc. for reasons of discretion or for the sake of the family. This can make it really difficult to assess the situation sometimes - did X leave because s/he was fed up with the job, because s/he was depressed or suicidal, because s/he wanted to turn a new leaf, because s/he suffered from a condition which may have left her/him confused and unable to remember things, because of a drug or similar problem which caused other people to be after her/him - or something else?

The problem of listing people is much larger and more complex than most of us realize, I think.

What really gets me though is media (in)attention. Some missing people get a lot of it and are kept in the news and papers all the time, while others get little or none. Males tend to get less attention simply because they are male, it seems, and therefore less endangered by default.

I don't really know where I'm going with this, I seem to have lost the thread. I've got a migraine attack coming on which is making me ramble even more incoherently. Apologies if I'm not making sense. Mods, please delete if I've said anything inappropriate etc.

Good night to everyone.

 

[whiterum]

Police think there may be more victims


http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/8957239.SWINDON_MURDERS__Family_devastated_at_death_of_Becky_Godden_Edwards/

 

[wfgodot]

Sian and Becky murders: Wiltshire Police examine five other cases

* Prostitute Sally Ann John, 24, of Nythe, Swindon, who went missing in September 1995.
* Sandra Brewin, 21, of Peatmoor, Swindon, who disappeared from her parents’ home in 1994 after becoming penfriends with a male prison inmate in Oxfordshire.
* Mum-of-four and college worker Linda Razzell, 41, from Swindon, was last seen in 2002 after parking her car in central Swindon to walk to work.
* Vietnamese immigrant Thi Hai Nguyen, 20, went missing from her temporary home in Swindon in June 2005 and has never been found.
* Kate Prout, 55, has never been recovered since she went missing from her farm in 2007. Her husband, Adrian, was found guilty of her murder last year.

much more info at SWNS link above

 

[Robin Hood]

Cabbie murder case families are linked
''THE families of murder victims Becky Godden-Edwards and Sian O'Callaghan are linked, The Sun can reveal''


http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3515496/Cabbie-murder-case-families-are-linked.html