Body found in river

[sherrardk]

The local police have found a body in the river Wye and think it it the person who fell in on New Year's Eve. They are currently trying to work out who it is. How come no one has reported a person missing, how can it be so hard (it's Hereford so I can't imagine that many people go missing every day). I just find it really odd or is it just standard reporting procedure to err with caution?

[DTCwordfan]

Cider, cider, and more cider must be the reason

[Maydup]

They can't afford to get the identity wrong so they wait until they're 100% correct, then they inform the families and then they announce in the press. This time tomorrow they'll have done all of that and it'll be clear who it is.

[RATTER15]

The person may not be from Hereford.

[askyourgran]

I can only think that the person lived alone with no-one in regular contact. It's so sad when no-one knows about them.

[DTCwordfan]

have they announced who the Quuen's "visitor" is yet?

[starone]

It might be more difficult than you think. For instance I live alone and don't go out unless someone takes me. On Sunday I didn't see anyone at all - they were all too busy with their own families which is as it should be. I could go on for several days without seeing anyone and so no-one would know if I was all right or not. If the person lived alone and kept completely to themselves it could happen.

[DTCwordfan]

or should that be was?

[EDDIE51]

A body has to be formally identified by a close relative first. If that can't be done they have to do DNA tests and they take several days.
So they find out who it is , then tell the relatives, then get the closest relative to do a formal identification only after all that has been done can they make a statement about who it is.

[sherrardk]

So sorry all, I didn't realise when I first posted this how callous I sounded. Obviously, very sad for the person in question and their family (they did try to find them on New Year's Eve too).

[ladybirder]

Ah, you're talking about the body at Sandringham DT. I haven't heard any more about it. Has anyone else?

[EDDIE51]

The Sandringham body has been identified , it was a Liuthuanian girl who has been missing since August. It took time because it was so decomposed they could only get DNA from the leg bone (femure)
It really had been there for over 4 months !

[ladybirder]

Thanks Eddie, someone young eh, how awful. I suppose we are looking at murder then.

[NoMercy]

Whereabouts did they fall in?

[sherrardk]

In town I think, maybe the bridge by throwing club? They did say when happened the name of the bridge but I don't know what the bridges are called. It was about lunch time so it wasn't a reveller.

[NoMercy]

I've always known them to be the Old Bridge and the New Bridge.

Sounds like the New Bridge then, unless they mean the Hunderton Bridge. That's a dangerous stretch of water. Two people I knew died by falling in that little stretch of water.

[boxtops]

Sorry sherrard - NoM, I've heard back from Malta..

[sherrardk]

No probs Boxtops, carry on.

[firewatch]

Sher you wouldnt believe the number of people who go missing in Hereford regularly, when you work in the homeless sector one of the most common queries is for mispers from teh police or worriead relatives. I feel sorry for people when it happens, but it does and its an awful sad fact of life.