The shocking mess that the police seem to have made of their investigation into the disappearance of a 12 year old girl in Surrey makes one wonder what was going on.
When children go missing, the usual starting point is with the parents and other close family members. In this case and for some as yet undiscovered reason, the police actually did start in the right place but failed to draw the right conclusions; it was only after a return to the starting point and a second bite of the cherry that they found the girl's body, apparently hidden in the house which they had 'thoroughly searched' only a few days before.
Having got it so wrong, the police have now charged the boyfriend of Tia Sharps's grandmother, a relationship which itself raises questions in one's mind' with the murder of this poor child. This sounds like yet another dysfunctional family - while we have heard much of Tia's 46 year old grandmother, her parents have been invisible, at least in my reading of the story. This story also has echoes of the recent tragedy in Derbyshire in which several children were burnt to death in a housefire started by their own family; once again, we have seen tearful and apparently heartfelt television appeals for information from the perpetrators of these horrific acts.
Whatever story eventually comes out, a 12 year old child is dead, murdered by someone close and whom she trusted and let down by her blood family. After death, she was also let down by the police, at least partly because they're too stretched chasing people for a whole variety of minor 'social crimes'
and simply unable to apply the highest and most rigorous standards to the most important crimes.
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