Reply to: This kidnap in India...

[northernladuk]

Bit cynical that.

No, very cynical in fact.

I think you may have said the same about....

Girl abducted in Batley. Mother guilty
Man stabbed in Midlands by 'mugger'. Girlfriend guilty
Boy flies away in weather ballon. Staged by parents..

Unfortuantely it happens.....

[Spacecadet]

100k isn't that much, especially if you're putting it out to the family. One thing Asians do very well, and half the reason they have so many corner shops is they're tight family units, and very good at pooling their money to help each other out.

WHS

£100k cash wouldn't be that difficult to get hold of. These are people who generally buy houses with cash which the entire extended family has helped out with

[ratewhore]

£100K came from her Majesty, read the post from NAT.

I sincerely hope not. While, as a parent, I am very happy for the family that the young boy has been returned safe, I would not like to think that HMG paid this ransom, yet refuses to pay the ransom for the couple being held captive in Somalia.

On a side note, todays article in the torygraph mentions how the dad paid the ransom of £110,000 under police surveillance, the police identified, followed and arrested the suspects, yet they only recovered £105,000...

[snaw]

How would that be connected to the release of the kid?

Also, where did the £100k come from? They live in "Shaw", not "that London"!

100k isn't that much, especially if you're putting it out to the family. One thing Asians do very well, and half the reason they have so many corner shops is they're tight family units, and very good at pooling their money to help each other out.

[fullyautomatix]

How would that be connected to the release of the kid?

Also, where did the £100k come from? They live in "Shaw", not "that London"!

Not connected in any way, but possibly a coincidence.


£100K came from her Majesty, read the post from NAT.

[snaw]

The last quote of some miscreants trying to cash in sounds plausible.

What surprises me is, Pakistani militants asking for ransom money. Its too tame. They always ask for some militant jailed for 20 years to be released.

Really?

How do you know they always ask for that? Not like we get a tonne of reports on kidnapping on Pakistan, who's to say it's not common to ask for money?

[Churchill]

The last quote of some miscreants trying to cash in sounds plausible.

What surprises me is, Pakistani militants asking for ransom money. Its too tame. They always ask for some militant jailed for 20 years to be released.

How would that be connected to the release of the kid?

Also, where did the £100k come from? They live in "Shaw", not "that London"!

[fullyautomatix]

Looks to me like it could have been a sting operation. I.e. the money was given by the govt, in order to catch the criminals. It's possible that the European arrests were of people who weren't involved in the kidnap, but were attempting to cash in on it.

The last quote of some miscreants trying to cash in sounds plausible.

What surprises me is, Pakistani militants asking for ransom money. Its too tame. They always ask for some militant jailed for 20 years to be released.

[NotAllThere]

Looks to me like it could have been a sting operation. I.e. the money was given by the govt, in order to catch the criminals. It's possible that the European arrests were of people who weren't involved in the kidnap, but were attempting to cash in on it.

[EternalOptimist]

Latest ... when hubby went missing his wife made a plea on telly, 'Please ,please come home, for the sake of the family. And if he doesnt come home, can anybody cover his night shift on Saturday.....'

[Spacecadet]

It seems that the boys father went to paris to pay the ransom

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8572441.stm

Hardly likely he masterminded it... unless of course he was thinking he could get the money back from the UK or Pakistan governments but that would be a huge gamble

[Clippy]

Lummy, the plot thickens.

[Troll]

surely not

[Churchill]

Jesus Christ Churchy. You need to 'game up' in this intellectual environment or people will start to notice you do not have tertiary education.

I apologised, what's your problem bitch?

[minestrone]

Agreed. Pakistan. Sorry.

Why that family?

Jesus Christ Churchy. You need to 'game up' in this intellectual environment or people will start to notice you do not have tertiary education.