DURING the Bank Holiday period my partner, my daughter and I were visiting Whitby and went fishing just above the bridge. Eventually others arrived.
One woman came with her boys and asked us to look after them while she and the boys' grandmother went for a coffee, and another couple asked could we keep an eye on her daughter while the father went fishing elsewhere and mother went off.
In light the murders of Holly and Jessica, would you leave your children with absolute strangers? I wouldn't.
We could have been anybody, and under no obligation to stay fishing while they returned. Say we had gone and something had happened to their kids, how would they have felt?
More to the point how would we have felt? Aren't some people just stupid!
A Van-Minnen,
Courcey Grove, Acomb, York.
Updated: 10:30 Thursday, August 29, 2002
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