Wee boy missing in Edinburgh

[tyrone girl]

Anyone following this on the news? All seems a bit strange. How could the wee lad have got out of there on his own.

[balladmaker]

I see the latest is that they are suspecting a professional abduction, scary, scary stuff if this turns out to be true.

Something definitely not adding up at present.

[Hereiam]

Outcome of this is

• The wee lad is found dead/alive after getting out of the house on his own
• Someone did indeed get in and take him
• The mother has killed her son

As said before something doesn't add up

[tyrone girl]

Something defnitely not adding up. Seems strange that he wasnt at school that day but his twin sister was and then he apparently usually shares a room with her but didnt on this particular night.  Though if he was sick maybe thats why but surely if your child was sick and couldnt share a room with his sister you would check on him a few times.
Maybe im reading too much into things.

[orangeman]

Time will tell.

[DennistheMenace]

Time doesn't always tell though. Hopefully they find some conclusion soon.

[deiseach]

Time doesn't always tell though. Hopefully they find some conclusion soon.

The scariest thought of all.

[tyrone girl]

Unfortuntely though time didnt tell in the Madeline Mc Cann case.
Dont think for a minute that wee lad got dressed and walked out of there on his own.

In my opinion something family connected.

[orangeman]

Time tells in most cases and we might not have long to wait.


The Maddie cases are very, very few and far between thankfully.

[trileacman]

Something defnitely not adding up. Seems strange that he wasnt at school that day but his twin sister was and then he apparently usually shares a room with her but didnt on this particular night.  Though if he was sick maybe that's why but surely if your child was sick and couldnt share a room with his sister you would check on him a few times.
Maybe im reading too much into things.

You are reading way too much into that, there's any of a hundred reasons why he mightn't have shared a room with the sister that night, all of them plausible. I'd say the first question the police asked would have been why and if they hadn't have received a satisfactory answer they wouldn't have released that info.

Take for example the status of the boy's parents marriage. There's no info on where the father was that night or whether the mother is seeing anyone etc, etc because it's an unsure subject and the police don't want to feed idle speculation by commenting on it.

[trileacman]

Some of the wording is strange.

It seems he wasn't put to bed but "was seen going to bed". I don't have kids but do 3 year olds get up from the sofa and head to bed by themselves?

Is that a quote from the old Bill or from the news?

[lawnseed]

No crime suspected at 06.00 this morning according to bbc radio

[Wildweasel74]

Its not that long  ago a very young child was found wandering the streets of Dungannon was it at 4am in the morning, but if that was the case, he would have been found by now

[trileacman]

Its not that long ago a very young child was found wandering the streets of Dungannon was it at 4am in the morning, but if that was the case, he would have been found by now

Maybe, maybe not. If he meet the wrong kind in the middle of the night or fell into water or over a steep ravine. You couldn't simply say it's a criminal case just yet.

[trileacman]

Oh, news now reporting he was put to bed by his ma.

See? It's like Chinese whispers, the ma tells the police who tell the media who tell us. Alot of you are reading too much into the minute detail of certain reports. It is pointless trying to play at investigator in a case like this when you have access to so little of the information. Leave it to the professionals on the ground.