Real England

also the judge reprimanded them for larking about in court and not seeming to take the charges seriously - it was a curious case!

Yeah the victim went to “look for his sister”, and Jay Slater and his mates were all there waiting with fuckin medieval implements and chased him and cut his head open. Would like to understand what actually went on there

I mean apart from that

some phone footage has emerged of him looking absolutely shitfaced and staggering about on the dancefloor and falling over shortly before his disappearance. Which would be fine in England, but you go wandering off the beaten track in that state in a hot humid place, then you could be fucked.

xp

I feel like there must be some context in that case that you don't get from the reportage on it, there must be some reason the judge didn't convict at least some of them to custodial time in a YOI

Possibly because the whole country's so underfunded the borstals YOIs have begged them not to send any more of the little fuckers?

it could have been a Covid thing as well

class snobbery, check. randoms throwing money at a murky crowdfunder, check. aspersions cast on the efficiency of foreign police, check. people who've watched too much true crime shit, that's a big check.

it was bad enough when UK media did the "incompetent johnny foreigner police" thing on behalf of the transparently guilty af inficidal McCann grift project.

In this case, just as in Greece last month, it's stupid English ppl going missing in hot conditions and rugged terrain that is difficult to search. obv Brit search dogs can cope with sweltering heat much better than those useless foreign ones.

I'm assuming Michael Mosley wasn't boozed up and on drugs but who knows for sure?

transparently guilty af inficidal McCann grift project

I know people who obsessively believe this kind of tripe, experts one and all so I hear

xp

no, but he ventured out during an extreme, unprecedented heatwave into a remote place, which is something the locals are clever enough to avoid doing. Hence there was nobody there to assist him.

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when my kid went missing I just called the police, it never occurred to me to hire a PR adviser. But I'm just lowborn riff raff!

Just typical that one (1) English person goes missing and it's top of the news for a week when just about anyone could just list dozens of more consequential things off the top of their head.

uh how litigious are the mccanns btw?