Terrible news

I have been following the story of the missing 12 year old in the UK and was shocked that they found her body in the grand parents house, apart from being disgusted , I have no idea how the police could have missed this :S

Heartbreaking

i dont think they can be blamed, the way they are "policed" they are so restricted in doing their job that things like this will happen

rip tia

Easy I understand they have restrictions, but can't understand how they could hide a body? I am considering that they were checking personnel effects like diaries, hair samples etc?
Plus after seeing the boyfriend on TV he did not strike me as being a pillar of the community.

when the person who is now accused of her murder said in an interview and I quote " i loved her" why did they not act on it as he was talking in the past tense. Only once they took the bedding away did they send in the Cadaver dog. Yet another mess up by the British Police.

dave

i am not disagreeing with you, just stating that in this politically correct nanny state/world that we live in. the PRIME suspect in this investigation was named as a "witness" all week.

Cops in the UK / Businessmen (like me) in the UK / Workers in the UK spend more time on paperwork than doing the job

risk assesments
method statements
etc etc etc

Was just looking at the normal size UK house maybe a kitchen 3 beds and 2 bathroom? trying to think where u hide a body with forensic experts going back and forward for a week?

the body was found in the loft

Who was in charge of the case inspector cluso?

scotia Wrote:

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> Easy I understand they have restrictions, but
> can't understand how they could hide a body? I am
> considering that they were checking personnel
> effects like diaries, hair samples etc?
> Plus after seeing the boyfriend on TV he did not
> strike me as being a pillar of the community.


Farksake.... who's boyfriend?? Surely not the 12 year old... : :X

The grandmothers boyfriend

Police searching for the missing schoolgirl Tia Sharp have found a body in her grandmother's south London home.

The Metropolitan Police said the body was found following a search of the property in New Addington, Croydon, earlier.

The 12-year-old has been missing since last Friday.

Police are seeking Stuart Hazell, 37, the partner of Tia's grandmother Christine Sharp, and have asked people to call 999 rather than approach him.

No arrests have been made.

Commander Neil Basu, of the Met, said the property had been searched three previous times in the past week and the latest search was carried out with the "full co-operation" of the family.

He said: "Our priority is to support the family of Tia at this distressing time and identify the body, which has been discovered, as quickly as possible.

"When Tia was first reported missing, officers searched her bedroom, as is normal practice in a missing persons inquiry.


Commander Neil Basu: ''Our priority at this time is to support the family of Tia''
"A further search of the house took place in the early hours of Sunday morning by a specialist team.

"This was then followed by another search of the house by specialist dogs on Wednesday lunchtime.

"What we now need to establish is how long the body had been in the place where it was found.

"Our priority now is to establish the facts of the case and to assist us with this, we are keen to speak to all those people who last saw Tia. In particular, we want to trace Stuart Hazell as a matter of urgency."

Officers had cordoned off the area around the house at about noon to carry out a forensic search, which the Met had said could take up to two days.

Earlier, officers with a police dog spent about 30 minutes in the house.

Tia's uncle, grandmother and Mr Hazell had all made appeals to find the schoolgirl.

It is understood she regularly visited her grandmother's house and was believed to have been at the property alone with Mr Hazell on the night before she disappeared.

Mr Hazell, who said he was not the last person to see the girl after she left the house, was questioned by police on Wednesday, but then released.

Grieving friends and local people gathered outside Tia Sharp's mother's house when news of the discovery of a body spread this evening.

Natalie Sharp, 31, is believed to have left the house in Mitcham earlier. This was before the shocking news broke that a body had been found in Tia's grandmother Christine Sharp's house in nearby New Addington, in Croydon.

While handfuls of locals gathered in the road outside Mrs Sharp's house, more people pulled up in cars, some revealing Tia's missing person appeal posters.

Many greeted each other with a hug. While children played with a football in the street, some residents looked angry as they gesticulated while talking with police officers.

The assembled press pack respected the volatility of the local mood by merely sitting in their cars and watching the scene unfold.

He claimed Tia set off for the Whitgift shopping centre in Croydon last Friday to buy flip-flops, having spent Thursday night alone with him while her grandmother was at work.

His sister, Sarah Parrat, said she did not believe her brother was involved and suspected "he is probably in a pub somewhere trying to get his head around it".

Alston Millington, 32, who lives nearby, said: "It is such sad news. I live just around the corner and can't believe it."

Following Tia's disappearance, a Facebook campaign was launched to find her and about 200 people helped police search a woodland near the house.

Before officers sealed the house earlier on Friday to carry out a search, Mrs Sharp was seen to leave the property with police in plain clothes.

At the time she said the missing girl's mother, Natalie, was "in bits" and that she did not know where she was as "she needed to get away".

She said all family members had done their "own little separate bit" to help in the search, including Mr Hazell, but she did not know where he was.

Mrs Sharp also added: "He knows the finger has been pointed at him.

"He knows this and it's been really hard for him."

In an interview on Thursday with ITV News, Mr Hazell issued a plea to Tia to come home.

Referring to the finger being pointed at him, he said: "Well, if they believe what they read in the papers, they can believe whatever they like because I know deep down in my heart that Tia walked out of my house, she walked out of there."

RIP
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