28 Tasha
In many ways, the media appeal feels like a huge load off my mind. A weight off my shoulders. But then in other ways it feels like an enormous burden, as if we’re now under the watchful eye of the British public. I can’t help but think of the way in which the newspapers and the public have turned on victims in the past. I keep thinking of the Madeleine McCann incident and the way her parents have been vilified by certain people ever since. She was snatched from her hotel room in Portugal while on holiday, and her parents had to suffer the ineptitude of the Portuguese authorities and the venom and bile of the British gutter press. I pray to God that doesn’t happen to us.
I know there’ll be people who already suspect we have something to do with it. There always are. The police wa
