Oh no. Not another little Madeleine.

I am told there are sad people who spend their time going round forums trying to cause trouble. Good job we never get anyone like that here.

The police have now told the parents that April is dead. How very tragic.

Mmm

Really dreadful, Greatnan, and impossible to know how to deal with this kind of news. Mums of our generation taught our children about "stranger danger" but (and I know we shouldn't pre-judge this particular case) it's clear that the danger didn't and doesn't come from the stranger. And now we are grans, how do we warn our grandchildren and whom do we warn them against? Surely encouraging them to be suspicious of everyone isn't the answer? Very heavy heart this evening.

I read in yesterday's newspaper that April had been allowed to stay out playing later than usual as a special treat because at the parents' evening at her school she had been given a "glowing report". How terribly ironic and desperately sad.

Then again [not wishing to detract from the tragedy of the event] the awful man was probably biding his time and would have found another opportunity at a later date.

Reading updates on the search for April Jones this morning, and wondering why the police won't say where they think she may have been hidden, then the realisation hit me from photos of police taking vehicles through fields of mud, and a striking sentence describing him as an ex abattoir worker. I now understand why they fear they might not be able to recover her remains. How dreadfully harrowing this has been. I can't begin to imagine how her parents will ever come to terms with losing her in this way.

OMG, what a dreadful thought whenim64, that would make some sense of this tragedy .

If he refuses to give any information there won't be much the police can do. Ian Brady never revealed where he had buried Keith Bennett's body.
He will almost certainly have to be kept in solitary confinement if he is found guilty - your 'normal' criminals don't like child murderers. It must be hard for the police officers who are having to deal with him.

Did they not say as wll that he had worked at a leisure centre? I wonder if he acted suspiciously and lost his job there?