ScalableHeights
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It's extreme behaviour for sure, and I don't know how likely it is, but the same could be said for leaving a car full of all your possessions - and in which you had recently given birth - burning on the side of the motorway while you go and look for a taxi. There's everything to suggest they have the means to do it, the motivation to do it, and they're in the right place to do iy. It doesn't mean that they have, of course. But if you asked around at a few truck stops or fishing ports and showed enough cash, I think they'd find someone to risk helping them. It possibly wasn't quite as big a news story then (but I might be wrong).Being almost a month out on last sightings is pretty terrible isnt it. I did see a few Facebook posts mentioning Eastbourne, and apparently someone did call it in but thats been the end of it. I think its unlikely they've gotten out of the country legally due to passports and find it a little far fetched that they'd pay off someone to smuggle them out.. Though they seem to be showing up at coastal towns with ports so it is obviously on their minds.
It has to be somewhat planned. Im not sure I believe that you could simply ask someone to put you in the back of their container to head to France or similar jump on a boat if they handed them a lump sum of money but perhaps they would.
Also looking at the timeline between 7th - 9th, confirmed sightings were being reported semi-frequently, and often just a few days behind the couple. On 9th (while they're still believed to be in Essex) they're down on the South coast, in a port town, possibly looking to leave the country, and then that's it, no later sightings in over 20 days. Maybe they are in the UK living off the grid, but it doesn't seem the most likely scenario to me, based on their movements. The police however will - publically, at least - work on the assumption they're still in the UK until they have proof otherwise.