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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
Chris,
This is not a provoking post, but given your past statements on the potential of the parents involvment, can I ask if your views have shifted at all ?
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My view this morning is sadness at the mere possibility that this could have happened. However what I think we should all do is try not to get caught up in the rolling news syndrome, in which journalists are constantly under pressure to form opinions and draw conclusions from incomplete information.
The stuff that is now leaking into the Press would appear to be the same stuff that your colleagues have been privy to, but that in itself doesn't mean it's conclusive.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to wriggle off the hook. I hope I made clear before that I didn't hold 'the parents did it' to be impossible, just highly unlikely for all the reasons I outlined the other day. I still think it's highly unlikely to be honest, and if it should ever prove to be true, I expect to be absolutely gobsmacked by the explanation of it all that would hopefully follow a 'guilty' verdict.
I have read one or two theories being bandied about on other websites and TBH they read like conspiracy theories. It will be amazing and very sad if a conspiracy theory actually turns out to be true for once ...