Psychic tells police death fall girl was murdered

[Admin]

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DETECTIVES are to reopen a five-year old case after a psychic claims that the girl was raped and thrown to her death from a tower block.

A leading psychic has confirmed to the grieving mother, Janet Spencer, a hairdresser from Bow, what she always suspected, that her daughter Marissa was brutally murdered by people she knew and trusted.

So a psychic is telling someone what they want to hear!

The medium Helen Davies, from Barking

"After throwing her body off the block, the gang visited her home in Hackney Wick to clean it and remove any forensic evidence" added Ms Spencer at her home in Bow.

I wonder if after looking back into the case and the police decide that no further action is required, whether the newspaper will run with the headline: Psychic wastes police time.

[chillzero]

Well, does anyone know which police force this would be? Can we confirm if the case is being re-opened, and if not, can we pressurise the paper to retract the story?

[tkingdoll]

As the police are obliged to follow up ALL new information, they will have had to go and investigate this, but if no new 'actual' evidence turns up, they won't do anything.

I'm not sure whether or not any new information, however dubious, requires the re-opening of a closed case, or whether there can be some sort of investigation into the new evidence that leads to the decision to re-open the case. And if the latter, we don't know in this case which it is.

The local station for Hackney Wick is Hackney Borough: http://www.met.police.uk/hackney/

It is highly unlikely that the newspaper will print a retraction, they are very protective of their psychic stories (I am learning that the hard way).

[Admin]

This is another aspect of how psychics get away with making these claims.

When the police are obliged to act on information that a psychic has given (as they are obliged to act on any information given) it often makes the headlines; but when the information turns out to be useless nothing more is heard.

[Admin]

I'm not digging this one up for any particular reason.

I've just been looking the types of stories like this one that the press publish and then never follow up on.

How many more are there like this one?

"DETECTIVES are to reopen a five-year old case after a psychic claims that the girl was raped" is a nice, psychic-friendly, headline that makes it look like psychics are being taken seriously by the police.

"DETECTIVES are to close a five-year old case after a psychic's claims turned out to be bogus" I guess just isn't sensational or controversial enough.