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Authors: Caroline Green
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and deserved.
Tara opened the lid and shook the contents onto the bed.
A few newspaper cuttings fell out, along with a letter handwritten on thin, lined paper. The paper was bruised with angry pressure points so it almost felt like braille. Tara imagined the pen
pressing the savage words into it and the hate that flowed through them.
She couldn’t look at that first. She always started with the newspaper cuttings. It was important that she did it in the right order. The first one was from the local newspaper in her old
town, dated February this year.
MISSING!
A three-year-old Southam toddler has not been seen since playing in his garden on Tuesday. Tyler Evans is described by mother Siobhan as a ‘bright, bubbly boy who we
all love to bits’. If you have any information, please call.
There was another cutting, dated the following week.
TRAGIC TOT FIGHTS FOR LIFE
Brave Tyler Evans is said to be in a critical condition after being found near a railway track on Saturday.
The three-year-old was the subject of a countywide search after going missing for four days and was believed to have been abducted by Sean Stanley, an ex-boyfriend of his
mother Siobhan.
It is now thought the toddler wandered off and fell down the steep railway bank, sustaining serious injuries. Police claim the area had already been searched and have
been heavily criticised for not finding the boy sooner.
Stanley is suing the force for damage to his home and injuries sustained during his arrest. Local MP Giles Meadows has called for an inquiry into what he described as a
‘pig’s ear of an investigation’.
And then . . .
R.I.P. TYLER:
BRAVE TOT LOSES BATTLE FOR LIFE
Tara’s eyes filled with hot tears. The words wobbled and blurred and her sinuses burned and fizzed. She dropped the cutting and reached for a tissue, before blowing her
nose with a loud honk.
Hand trembling, she left the cutting where it was and took a long shaky breath before reaching for the letter. The paper had been thin and cheap to begin with, but Tara’s countless
handlings of it since February had given it the quality of something much older than it was too. Mum and Dad didn’t know anything about her cuttings. The letter had been lying on the mat when
she’d come home from school, addressed to
Tara Murry
. Still in a state of shock and moving through the world like a ghost, she’d opened it without any sense of what might be
inside.
Tara smoothed out the pages and made herself read. The handwriting was childish and blocky.
Tara
I want you to understand what it is youve done to my family. If you hadnt gone to the police with your crap stories, my baby would still be alive. The police are to
blame, I know, but YOU was the one that persauded them he was with his dad.
I cry all the time and the doctors had to give me pills. Chelsea and Jayden miss their brother and have nightmares every night. Our lives are in peaces and you are
probably carrying on like nothing happened, tucked up in your nice house with your mum and dad. I know you have a brother. How would you feel if he was dead?
I hope you have nightmares too Tara Murry. I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR WHAT YOUVE DONE.
Siobhan Evans
Weeping quietly, Tara folded the letter again and put it back in the box. There was one more cutting, which she grimly unfolded, determined to see this ritual through. The
waves of shame and pain almost had a pleasure to them, in that they took her to her lowest place. She could purge herself through tears.
POLICE USE SCHOOLGIRL ‘PSYCHIC’ TO TRACK TYLER
A Miston Herald EXCLUSIVE!
Local police failed to find the toddler Tyler Evans because they had been sent on the wrong trail by a so-called ‘psychic’, according to MP Giles Meadows.
Chief Superintendent Alun Constantine has denied the claim that an unidentified schoolgirl from the Horsley area sent police on a false trail.
Sean Stanley, whose house was the subject of a dawn raid
Tara opened the lid and shook the contents onto the bed.
A few newspaper cuttings fell out, along with a letter handwritten on thin, lined paper. The paper was bruised with angry pressure points so it almost felt like braille. Tara imagined the pen
pressing the savage words into it and the hate that flowed through them.
She couldn’t look at that first. She always started with the newspaper cuttings. It was important that she did it in the right order. The first one was from the local newspaper in her old
town, dated February this year.
MISSING!
A three-year-old Southam toddler has not been seen since playing in his garden on Tuesday. Tyler Evans is described by mother Siobhan as a ‘bright, bubbly boy who we
all love to bits’. If you have any information, please call.
There was another cutting, dated the following week.
TRAGIC TOT FIGHTS FOR LIFE
Brave Tyler Evans is said to be in a critical condition after being found near a railway track on Saturday.
The three-year-old was the subject of a countywide search after going missing for four days and was believed to have been abducted by Sean Stanley, an ex-boyfriend of his
mother Siobhan.
It is now thought the toddler wandered off and fell down the steep railway bank, sustaining serious injuries. Police claim the area had already been searched and have
been heavily criticised for not finding the boy sooner.
Stanley is suing the force for damage to his home and injuries sustained during his arrest. Local MP Giles Meadows has called for an inquiry into what he described as a
‘pig’s ear of an investigation’.
And then . . .
R.I.P. TYLER:
BRAVE TOT LOSES BATTLE FOR LIFE
Tara’s eyes filled with hot tears. The words wobbled and blurred and her sinuses burned and fizzed. She dropped the cutting and reached for a tissue, before blowing her
nose with a loud honk.
Hand trembling, she left the cutting where it was and took a long shaky breath before reaching for the letter. The paper had been thin and cheap to begin with, but Tara’s countless
handlings of it since February had given it the quality of something much older than it was too. Mum and Dad didn’t know anything about her cuttings. The letter had been lying on the mat when
she’d come home from school, addressed to
Tara Murry
. Still in a state of shock and moving through the world like a ghost, she’d opened it without any sense of what might be
inside.
Tara smoothed out the pages and made herself read. The handwriting was childish and blocky.
Tara
I want you to understand what it is youve done to my family. If you hadnt gone to the police with your crap stories, my baby would still be alive. The police are to
blame, I know, but YOU was the one that persauded them he was with his dad.
I cry all the time and the doctors had to give me pills. Chelsea and Jayden miss their brother and have nightmares every night. Our lives are in peaces and you are
probably carrying on like nothing happened, tucked up in your nice house with your mum and dad. I know you have a brother. How would you feel if he was dead?
I hope you have nightmares too Tara Murry. I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR WHAT YOUVE DONE.
Siobhan Evans
Weeping quietly, Tara folded the letter again and put it back in the box. There was one more cutting, which she grimly unfolded, determined to see this ritual through. The
waves of shame and pain almost had a pleasure to them, in that they took her to her lowest place. She could purge herself through tears.
POLICE USE SCHOOLGIRL ‘PSYCHIC’ TO TRACK TYLER
A Miston Herald EXCLUSIVE!
Local police failed to find the toddler Tyler Evans because they had been sent on the wrong trail by a so-called ‘psychic’, according to MP Giles Meadows.
Chief Superintendent Alun Constantine has denied the claim that an unidentified schoolgirl from the Horsley area sent police on a false trail.
Sean Stanley, whose house was the subject of a dawn raid
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