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Child missing in Edinburgh

  • 17-01-2014 10:27PM
    #1
    wdmfapq4zs83hv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 563 ✭✭✭wdmfapq4zs83hv


    Cant find any threads on this... This must be the biggest story at the moment. Its such an odd case, its just not adding up. When I first heard my immediate reaction was "custody dispute" now I don't know what to think...


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  • #2
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    3 year old puts on his coat and goes for a wander

    very strange indeed


  • #3
    littlelulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭littlelulu


    Is this the child they think is missing after some criminal activity?? Saw that on the news headlines


  • #4
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Rebecca Small Violin wrote: »
    Cant find any threads on this... This must be the biggest story at the moment. Its such an odd case, its just not adding up. When I first heard my immediate reaction was "custody dispute" now I don't know what to think...

    In a world where this can happen
    http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/dec/02/ukcrime.martinwainwright

    and this

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Shannon_Matthews

    ...ye wouldn't know at all, no.


  • #5
    lukesmom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,401 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    Freezing outside aparantly they were gritting the roads. Poor kid why haven't they found him yet with all the manpower and resources they have?


  • #6
    athtrasna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,420 ✭✭✭✭athtrasna


    Too many things about the story don't make sense, a 3 year old letting himself out? Not being at nursery all week? Not sleeping in the room he normally shared with his twin sister that night?


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  • #7
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Cold but who cares? I mean really?

    How many children have been killed worldwide since this one has gone missing?!


  • #8
    lukesmom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,401 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    Holsten wrote: »
    Cold but who cares? I mean really?

    How many children have been killed worldwide since this one has gone missing?!

    What's that got to do with anything?


  • #9
    bootybouncer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 495 ✭✭bootybouncer


    Call in the Portuguese police


  • #10
    wdmfapq4zs83hv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 563 ✭✭✭wdmfapq4zs83hv


    I think theyre being very cagey with what theyre saying or not saying. As a mother of a 2.5 year old I don't buy for a minute that he got up, put a coat, shoes & gloves on & got out of a 1st floor flat. And all without the mother & 4 other siblings hearing anything. I find it strange too that there is no sign of the mother, thinking back to other high profile missing children the parents are usually all over the news begging for help to find the child..


  • #11
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    athtrasna wrote: »
    Too many things about the story don't make sense, a 3 year old letting himself out? Not being at nursery all week? Not sleeping in the room he normally shared with his twin sister that night?

    last seen in his coat its hard enough to get a pair of shoes to stay on a kid at that age


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  • #12
    wdmfapq4zs83hv
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    Holsten wrote: »
    Cold but who cares? I mean really?

    How many children have been killed worldwide since this one has gone missing?!

    "Who cares"? - amyone with a heart I would think:eek:


  • #13
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Holsten wrote: »
    Cold but who cares? I mean really?

    How many children have been killed worldwide since this one has gone missing?!

    So just because lots of other children have died, people aren't allowed to be concerned about the welfare of this one?
    Great logic.


  • #14
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Holsten wrote: »
    Cold but who cares? I mean really?

    How many children have been killed worldwide since this one has gone missing?!

    As a father of two you kids one slightly older than the missing boy I'm concerned full stop,

    Definitely doesn't add up especially when the police asked witnesses who had actually seen the young lad in the in the previous 24 hours ,

    No sighting on CCTV which apparently is installed in the apartment blocks in the estate

    3 yo sneeks out without making a sound and apparently opens a heavy reenforced glass and steel door that adults say is difficult to open
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  • #15
    Pang
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    It's very odd. Is there a father present?


  • #16
    Nodin
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    Rebecca Small Violin wrote: »
    I think theyre being very cagey with what theyre saying or not saying. As a mother of a 2.5 year old I don't buy for a minute that he got up, put a coat, shoes & gloves on & got out of a 1st floor flat. And all without the mother & 4 other siblings hearing anything. I find it strange too that there is no sign of the mother, thinking back to other high profile missing children the parents are usually all over the news begging for help to find the child..



    ....as sometimes the begging parents have been in some way involved, I wouldn't read much into it either way.


  • #17
    wdmfapq4zs83hv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 563 ✭✭✭wdmfapq4zs83hv


    Apparently it is now being said that he hasn't been to nursery since before Christmas


  • #18
    Daqster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Daqster


    Holsten wrote: »
    Cold but who cares? I mean really?

    Well, these people for a start:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yDlSa764ds


  • #19
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    lukesmom wrote: »
    What's that got to do with anything?

    Why single this one child out? Is his life more important than others? How many more children have been reported missing in Scotland within the last 24 hours.. I'd love to see that number.


  • #20
    wdmfapq4zs83hv
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    Pang wrote: »
    It's very odd. Is there a father present?

    From the bits I've read the father doesn't live in the home & is from Pakistan (which is why I though custody dispute immediately)


  • #21
    Arrow.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭Arrow.


    Holsten wrote: »
    Cold but who cares? I mean really?

    How many children have been killed worldwide since this one has gone missing?!

    What a stupid, ignorant and frankly disgusting thing to say about a missing 3 year old child.

    To answer your rhetorical question: I don't know, but it doesn't detract from the fact a helpless child is missing, possibly in grave danger, while his parents go out of their mind with worry.

    Something tells me you haven't the balls to say something like that to the parents face.


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  • #22
    ferrigan101
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    Link to the Edinburgh Evening News latest updates page. It's all a bit strange.

    http://m.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/missing-mikaeel-kular-latest-updates-1-3270452

    Edit - for those on something other than a mobile.. http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/missing-mikaeel-kular-latest-updates-1-3270452


  • #23
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,787 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Rebecca Small Violin wrote: »
    Cant find any threads on this... This must be the biggest story at the moment. Its such an odd case, its just not adding up. When I first heard my immediate reaction was "custody dispute" now I don't know what to think...

    Thread here. It was closed.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=88493690


  • #24
    wdmfapq4zs83hv
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    Holsten wrote: »
    Why single this one child out? Is his life more important than others? How many more children have been reported missing in Scotland within the last 24 hours.. I'd love to see that number.

    So missing children shouldn't be reported on?


  • #25
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Arrow. wrote: »
    What a stupid, ignorant and frankly disgusting thing to say about a missing 3 year old child.

    To answer your rhetorical question: I don't know, but it doesn't detract from the fact a helpless child is missing, possibly in grave danger, while his parents go out of their mind with worry.

    Something tells me you haven't the balls to say something like that to the parents face.

    Sorry I just don't care, it doesn't affect me at all and there is much, much worse happening throughout the world right now.


  • #26
    humanji
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    Holsten wrote: »
    Sorry I just don't care, it doesn't affect me at all and there is much, much worse happening throughout the world right now.
    If you don't care then keep out of the thread.


  • #27
    kneemos
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    Holsten wrote: »
    Why single this one child out? Is his life more important than others? How many more children have been reported missing in Scotland within the last 24 hours.. I'd love to see that number.

    Is it less important?


  • #28
    [Deleted User]
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    When the story first broke yesterday morning I hoped it was the father that had taken Mikaeel rather than a pervert. The lesser of two evils. Now, with the new information about the child not attending playschool so far this year and police Scotland mentioning that his disappearance May be the result of a criminal act, I sadly feel that this story will have a tragic end.

    All the apartment blocks have CCTV at each entrance. If the child, or anyone else for that matter had been spotted, the police would either eliminate them from inquiries or, due to the urgent nature, issue appeals. They haven't done this.

    I wonder when was the last time Mikeaal was seen by someone other than a family member? I hope my bad feeling is incorrect. Every time I see that sweet little boys photo, I can't help but ask him out loud "where are you?"


  • #29
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    humanji wrote: »
    If you don't care then keep out of the thread.

    It's a valid view.


  • #30
    wdmfapq4zs83hv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 563 ✭✭✭wdmfapq4zs83hv


    The fact that there is CCTV at the entrance would surely rule in or out a lot, did he leave alone or with someone or not at all... The press conferences I have seen they don't seem to want to answer any questions on the CCTV...


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  • #31
    Ihatecuddles
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    kneemos wrote: »
    It's a valid view.

    I don't see how? I don't care about certain threads, so i don't post in them.

    This is an interesting case, and a heartbreaking one for many. My son is 3 years old and I would be out of my mind with worry if he went missing :(


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