Now removed from official face book page

susible wrote:They took their time to even advertise it on the page...they should have done that last week

tigger wrote:

susible wrote:They took their time to even advertise it on the page...they should have done that last week

Indeed, if Missing People are so slow off the mark with all their lost and missing people, what's the use? A lot can happen to a 12 year old in one week.
All they did is to get one of their directors on TV - bit of free advertising for their fund raising.
They also said people could phone them in confidence - if they didn't want to speak to the police. Rubbish imo as anyone can leave an anonymous message with the police fairly easily.

It just shows what these charities are all about. Fundraising and publicity.

MaryB wrote:In my opinion this just proves how useless all these close all the ports and airport and border alerts are. Look close to home is the answer in nearly every case. Sad though it is.

matthew wrote:

MaryB wrote:In my opinion this just proves how useless all these close all the ports and airport and border alerts are. Look close to home is the answer in nearly every case. Sad though it is.

Agreed Mary,
Surprised this case was on their fb page...especially when the t-shirts made an appearance,seems all too familiar to other cases in the not too distant past

The police have been criticised for their non finding of the body earlier but they have a protocol to be sensitive to the family in these cases,if a family member is involved i can understand how hard it is for the police even if they suspect foul play from the start.
In this case the dogs went in the house wednesday...alerted somewhere in the house,undoubtedly not where the body was later found...& they sent in the forensics friday to take samples from where the dogs had alerted to,who im sure did not expect the body to be in the house i think theres been a softly softly approce
I think the time has come to forget about being sensitive & make the parents/guardians suspects straight away,bring in the dogs on day1,the police could use resources to finding the child aswell as this unsensitive approach & if this new approach fails to find immediate evidence off foul play...then the investigation can continue into a dissapearance.

Parents who are genuine in a case like this would understand,surely nothing can hurt more than the thoughts in your mind,aginst the police scrutinisng you as a suspect

If only this method was used years ago

tigger wrote:What bothers me is that they've used the most 'attractive ' photograph of Tia on that page. In a very adult and made-up pose, eye make up, lippy, looking over her shoulder. Hmm. Nothing like the spec-wearing girl on other snaps.
In the first place Tia will have looked as much like that in real life as Maddie did with the blue eyeshadow on. Not good for recognition purposes.

In the second place why pick a photograph where she looks about 15/16?

fuzeta wrote:

tigger wrote:What bothers me is that they've used the most 'attractive ' photograph of Tia on that page. In a very adult and made-up pose, eye make up, lippy, looking over her shoulder. Hmm. Nothing like the spec-wearing girl on other snaps.
In the first place Tia will have looked as much like that in real life as Maddie did with the blue eyeshadow on. Not good for recognition purposes.

In the second place why pick a photograph where she looks about 15/16?

I cannot understand them putting that photograph up either, plus who took it?? My grandaughter is eleven and a half and she looks like the child she is. None of us would dream of taking a photo of her looking like that, not that she would ever look like that at her age. She is just a child for God's sake. The world has gone mad.

Bobsy wrote:

fuzeta wrote:

tigger wrote:What bothers me is that they've used the most 'attractive ' photograph of Tia on that page. In a very adult and made-up pose, eye make up, lippy, looking over her shoulder. Hmm. Nothing like the spec-wearing girl on other snaps.
In the first place Tia will have looked as much like that in real life as Maddie did with the blue eyeshadow on. Not good for recognition purposes.

In the second place why pick a photograph where she looks about 15/16?

I cannot understand them putting that photograph up either, plus who took it?? My grandaughter is eleven and a half and she looks like the child she is. None of us would dream of taking a photo of her looking like that, not that she would ever look like that at her age. She is just a child for God's sake. The world has gone mad.

She was just a child fuzeta, now sadly a dead child.

tigger wrote:What bothers me is that they've used the most 'attractive ' photograph of Tia on that page. In a very adult and made-up pose, eye make up, lippy, looking over her shoulder. Hmm. Nothing like the spec-wearing girl on other snaps.
In the first place Tia will have looked as much like that in real life as Maddie did with the blue eyeshadow on. Not good for recognition purposes.

In the second place why pick a photograph where she looks about 15/16?

pamalam wrote:

tigger wrote:What bothers me is that they've used the most 'attractive ' photograph of Tia on that page. In a very adult and made-up pose, eye make up, lippy, looking over her shoulder. Hmm. Nothing like the spec-wearing girl on other snaps.
In the first place Tia will have looked as much like that in real life as Maddie did with the blue eyeshadow on. Not good for recognition purposes.

In the second place why pick a photograph where she looks about 15/16?

https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/tiasharp
The Angle of the pose is how missing people have put it on their website.


This is the pose in the normal press. It Gives a completely different perspective of it in my opinion

kitti wrote:Why have they 'tilted' the picture?

tigger wrote:

kitti wrote:Why have they 'tilted' the picture?

Looks as if she's lying down, looking up at you - a made up 12 year old with mascara, eyeliner, lipstick and looking about 16+....

Not appropriate imo.

kitti wrote:A link to Tia's granny facebook page who has now been arrested on suspicion of Tia's murder. Am speechless

https://www.facebook.com/bicknell.chris?sk=wall

kitti wrote:A link to Tia's granny facebook page who has now been arrested on suspicion of Tia's murder. Am speechless

https://www.facebook.com/bicknell.chris?sk=wall

Not Born Yesterday wrote:I'm not sure where the Bicknell name comes in - I'm guessing that she was once married to someone with that name. She is Tia's maternal grandmother. Tia's father has been named as Steven Carter, nothing to do with the Sharp side of the family.