No-one Found

By Ewan

Thu, 16 Feb 2023
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The rumours spread like tumours

and the truth was multiplied

into a million lies,

while the sino-genic whispers

made murders out of mis-pers

and vice versa .

 

                           Because no-one found the body

                           nobody was found,

                           while somebody wasn't,

                           if anybody drowned.

 

Step once into the last stream,

underwater, no-one hears a scream,

pocketed stones carried to the sea.

Who is Sylvia? What is She?

Who is Nicola? Where is she?

 

                            Or did she run? Run away, run from, run to,

                            anywhere, anyhow, anything will do.

                            Because no-one found the body,

                            no-one is to blame.

 

Certificate 15
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Gathered Flowers
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Comments

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

A huge mess (which gets worse daily). Not handled well at all by the police

 

Submitted by Ewan on

Police Presser. What happened to "mortuis nihil nisi bonum"? Or do they think she's still alive? Just really, really crappy and unsympathetic policing.

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Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

From what the search and rescue people said, in that particular area, if she had gone into the water they would have found her. People are usually found if that happens - they always were. And now the poor woman is being trashed all over the place.

 

Submitted by Ewan on

I don't see how it could help the investigation in any way. This from a police force that asked people not to organise 'vigilante' search parties: now they decide this information needs to be made public? I don't think so. They can't have it both ways.

Gibbous House:  Ewan's 1st Novel No Good Deed :  Ewan's 2nd Novel At the Back of the North Wind Ewan's 3rd Novel
 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Exactly.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

I am glad you wrote this, was shocked at the beginning when police seemed to stop bothering because they thought she might have fallen in. With no evidence. Then they tried to explain why it was reasonable to think she took her own life. Something deeply private, her huge vulnerability. Yet they twisted it as if saying stop worrying about her she wasn't worth it. Horrific. Her poor poor family

 

Submitted by Ewan on

a resolution, not the one anyone wanted.

When things like this happen I'm always reminded of the un-recovered Moors Murderers' victim, and their family's lack of closure. No internet, Black-and-white TV only on for 10 hours a day, maximum. The global village is both blessing and curse.

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