About police are standing beside the family members, I think AS just escaped everybody's lasso and no one could rein him in for his own good. I am very grateful that Ms. Leamon has stepped up to speak for him, and that the RCMP was able to put a non-disclosure agreement into place.
I think coming into this, AS had a lot of distrust for the police, lawyers, social workers, mental health care workers and so forth because of what he's been through. He did trust the media because he felt those were the only people that were telling him anything. He trusted them with his book. He trusted them to be around when he learned of his son's death. He thought they would be protective and on his side, but instead they put him on a spit and roasted him.
It's interesting to me that BS's mom gave a hand-written note to the Daily Mail of all papers. Why not a Canadian paper? Was it just because that was the reporter that was around that day? Or was it planned: the Daily Mail gets 74M unique visitors while The Globe and Mail (with the largest digital circulation in Canada) only has has 4M unique visitors per week.
Rankings
Globe readership grows, most read in Canada
I wonder if BS's mom understood how wide a reach the Daily Mail has, or if she understood she was adding gasoline to the media fire at all?
KM's parents were "lucky" to have a house set back in some trees, so they were able to barricade at home, but BS's mom had to leave town.
When the RCMP release their report, it will create another media frenzy. What's the best thing the RCMP could do to protect the families? Probably give them some time to brace themselves and then give them the report in advance of the public release, with some time to digest it.
