[Mike]

Because the news follow the public. They report on the stories that the public are talking about, and ultimately this one is.

And to an extent I'd get it, but it ends disastrously with that logic i.e. senior BBC presenters being labelled as criminals when they aren't.

And the inequality in cases reported on is concerning. If we're honest, the public and media (who is very much betari's box in this case, were suggesting (and dare I use the word 'hoping') that a lone female was somehow kidnapped and killed, maybe with a sexual motive in the middle of those two events. Much like the other case in the North of England.

Meanwhile, far more than 20 people a day are reported as MISPERs, but they are graded by risk - I used to deal with around 10 a shift that were 'high risk'. 75% of them were male. 12 men a day complete suicide, 3 times that of the number of those identifying as women.

It's a huge can of worms to open and the wrong forum, but the way the BBC panders to public conjecture and opinion, journalism that does not make. Vox pops of 'we all know each other in a city of 150k' and other such bullshit doesn't flesh out or tell this story, it gives airtime to the braindead.