pinkpuddytat
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Your earlier statement was this: "I'll note for the record that it's pretty clear grandmum wasn't doing much phoning to NC either (nor mum). "
I grant you your reasoning. But reasoning produces opinion, not concrete fact. To say the grandmother "wasn't doing much phoning" is a statement which requires actual evidence. Earlier, when you doubted, based on what turned out to be a Facebook page, that Z's mother had sought her out, I provided you a link which showed that the "evidence" was only Facebook hearsay. When I hear something "for the record," I'd like at least a link which establishes concretely that authorities have determined it to be true.
Expressions such as "pretty clear" and the imprecise quantification "wasn't doing much" aren't how I assert incontrovertible facts. There is virtually nothing that we know with certainty that authorities have firmly determined to be true. But there's a lot of evidence from authoritative sources' statements in the media, and none of it is realistically consistent with either the grandmother or mother having maintained regular phone contact with Zahra. Unless, of course, you entertain the possibilities that they did but withheld that information from inquiring LE, or that LE was flat-out lying when they begged the public for help in establishing whether Zahra had been alive at any time after the most recent move, saying that AB and EB were the only sources they'd found who were claiming to know Zahra had been alive later than the move date. I don't see those possibilities as sufficiently plausible to entertain. YMMV.