Missing in Dubai - timmy maccoll, sailor

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Jun 21st 2012, 12:39 pm

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Re: Missing in Dubai - timmy maccoll, sailor

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Originally Posted by Kix

Gets better, the British Navy offered assistance with a more thorough search of the docks but dubai police turned the offer down!

I see via the FB page that the family have arrived back in Dubai today, Scamp you will meet them tomorrow at the vigil they are going to be there. Though why you send a pregnant woman here, when her husband is missing is beyond me.

Jun 21st 2012, 12:56 pm

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Though why you send a pregnant woman here, when her husband is missing is beyond me.

The heat, the stress, the memories.....not ideal, but maybe she just wants to feel she's doing something closer to Timmy rather than sitting at home waiting.

Jun 21st 2012, 1:17 pm

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The heat, the stress, the memories.....not ideal, but maybe she just wants to feel she's doing something closer to Timmy rather than sitting at home waiting.

Without wishing to offend, I'd suggest that this would have been better a few weeks ago.

I'd also suggest that a vigil is more for the benefit of those attending it than for the missing man...

Jun 21st 2012, 2:29 pm

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Re: Missing in Dubai - timmy maccoll, sailor

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Without wishing to offend, I'd suggest that this would have been better a few weeks ago.

I'd also suggest that a vigil is more for the benefit of those attending it than for the missing man...

I have felt that about most of what has been done so far, I am afraid

And for the record, I am also 6 months pregnant and if my husband went missing, I would be on the next plane out to wherever he had last been seen. I don't understand the level of complacency in this case.

Jun 21st 2012, 2:32 pm

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I have felt that about most of what has been done so far, I am afraid

the problem is they had faith in the Royal Navy and the authorities here

Jun 21st 2012, 3:00 pm

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the problem is they had faith in the Royal Navy and the authorities here

Do they still, do you think?

Jun 21st 2012, 4:00 pm

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Do they still, do you think?

Probably not as much as they did. Thing is in this situation, you must be told "We're doing all we can...there's nothing you can do....leave it to us". And you sit and wait. And wait. Awful.

Jun 22nd 2012, 6:23 am

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Re: Missing in Dubai - timmy maccoll, sailor

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Probably not as much as they did. Thing is in this situation, you must be told "We're doing all we can...there's nothing you can do....leave it to us". And you sit and wait. And wait. Awful.

BUT... they were also told, over and over again by a lot of longterm expats...."come out now, don't rely on the authorutues, it doesn't work as it does in the UK"

Jun 22nd 2012, 8:04 am

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BUT... they were also told, over and over again by a lot of longterm expats...."come out now, don't rely on the authorutues, it doesn't work as it does in the UK"

well we couldn't have given better advice