If ever there was a story that symbolised the murky tabloid exploitation of an impressionable, grief-stricken individual, it's the Sally-Anne Bowman murder. There's something distasteful about the manner in which this story has been kept alive with "exclusive" new photos of Sally-Anne's amateur modelling career trailed on the front page in managed phases.
And it seems that egged on by a media all too happy to encourage Mrs Bowman's public exhibition of grief and give them another excuse to print a photo of the "next Kate Moss", she has become rather obsessed with the installation of a permanent plaque in the road where she was murdered.
Understandably the residents of Blenheim Crescent aren't particularly happy with the notion of their street becoming a haven for ghouls and grief tourists. Anyway, thankfully Croydon Council have rejected her application, leading to Mrs Bowman predictably lashing out at the blameless residents by accusing them of "gloating and look at the whole situation like we've lost, but they don't know the full story."
Well thank funk for Croydon Council but I wouldn't put it past the NOTW launching a campaign to "honour Sally-Anne" because of course it's what she would have wanted. As for the precedent this would set I can only shudder at the thought of 12 separate memorial plaques outside the unfortunate former house of Fred West.
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The mum is trying to turn her daugher in to princess di. I don't want my streets littered with reminders about people who were stabbed, raped, run over, etc thanks very much. Very self-indulgent form of grief.
U hav got ur hds in sand. Soceity is full of filth, scum, murderers, rapists, and pedopiles. Thier shd b plaqes evrywhr 2 rspct the ded.
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