Last week, a book was launched regarding an alleged abduction
Suspiciously, an article appeared in The Daily Fail regarding a sighting of the alleged abductee. An american & 2 other tourists tried to abduct the abductee to free her from the French/Belgian "parents", now in police custody, their passports confiscated, the child being DNA tested. Anxiously awaiting those results
But when Sky News contacted Indian police, they had no record of such a sighting. No sir, no DNA testing going on here. What tourists? What sighting?
And so the story died in obscurity.
But what's this today - 2 papers reporting the same, week old story (with slight differences, such as the passports now being copied). The family are anxiously awaiting DNA results! New Hope!
Oh, it just happens to coincide with the uproar of the previously mentioned book being pulled, and the author making noises about being accused of defamation!
So Sky, ITN and BBC check with Indian authorities. Once again, no record of such a sighting. No DNA testing. No tourists. No report of any sighting. Sky, ITN and BBC can find no trace of the alleged parents, tourists or the child.
Much mutterings of burying the bad news that The Fund is again being used for legal action on a book covering the facts. Anger that the last 2 legal actions failed. Anger that the first injunction was overturned. Anger at how come they're releasing this sighting to the press, when Scotland Yard should be investigating...
Emergency PR statement issued: "The family are not treating this information seriously".
Hold on - serious enough to release it to the press, and let it be discredited.
How to dig yourself out of THAT hole?
We shall see...
