salsa-king

where do you think all that money came from, i heard it came from the family selling stuff like jewellery etc.

is it just me but don't they live in a small terrace house in Oldham?


Is there more to it than we're being told???

Was it a random kidnap or did someone know the family??

putting thoughts in the air.......
have they more money than they make out and ......

(totally saying out loud)... are they on benifits and claiming off the state etc

you make the rest up.

Also haven't seen much of the boys mother??????????

Just me asking questions.

zip106

Where did the money come from?

They sold a little boy for £100k.

A very odd case.

salsa-king

lol

bluudy expensive hair cut he's had.




it does seem fishy if you ask me. but i'm no policeman

dsmith

Savings. (some people do still have them) . Close community. large extended family. generous local businessman. Who knows where the money came from - £110K isn't a huge amount in the great scheme. does it matter at the moment ?

And yes - you've just seen the mother on the news.

mj

100K is just a whip round in Oldham. Probaqbly didn't even need to knock on the next but one bedroom door to make it past the ransom.

Steve vRS

It's a good news story for a change.

I bet if you needed to,you could get £100k off family and friends for an extreme event like a kidnap.

The stress on the father; to be accused of involvement when he was working with the police to trap the gang whilst his son was threatened is to be admired.

Steve

kingofturds

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There were reports of 3 separate countries putting up the money. whatever this is a dodgy photo imo, hardly a person worried out of her skull that she has her child back.

salsa-king

tell me aranged marriages work...... poor bloke

STi wanna Subaru

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I think there's more to come out with this story. Of what nature I don't know but there's more questions than answers at the minute.

dsmith

shes been stuck in front of the camera and told to smile by a baying pack of journos. They dont give people media training *before* they have their kids kidnapped.

+Doc+

If the family aren't involved somehow in the organisation of the kidnap then my faith in human kind has been restored and Oldham will not get relegated.

mj

I agree, the way her arms are up, I'd say she wants a subaru.

That smile has STi written all over it.

And yes, the whole story honks....

salsa-king

Ben10 watch? Look unless it's Rolex I'm not interested.... where's yoza when you need watch advice?

stevebt

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Its a good job they were asking a reward for his son as if they kidnapped his wife I think he would still be £110k richer

Funkii Munkii

I thought the same when I saw that a couple of days ago, she looks like she's won a 10 quid scratch card or has just had her request played on the radio

Yay I've won

Turbohot

ScoobyWon't

It seems fishy to me and I am a policeman.

Didn't the husband take the wife's passport with him to stop her leaving the UK? That seems a bit fishy to me.

Additionally, some reports claim that the family have no savings.

My own suspicions are that the father is behind this. Something just doesn't add up. It's a bit like when someone is murdered and the 'witness' who always goes out of the way to help the police turns out to be the one 'who dunnit'.

Neanderthal

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Remember that hoax a few months ago in the US with that kid that hid in the garage?
I'm not saying it's as big a stitch up as that but something doesn't ring true.
The kid looks completely unaffected by his 'ordeal'

Sick of the coverage of it now, like the whole country was on the edge of their seats waiting to hear about it!

salsa-king

I'm sure i was at skool at the age of 5.

Miniman

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He is in school - but was on "holiday" at the time. Now my kids schools are clamping down hard on kids going out of school during term time.

Lee247

A strange story. I am not entirely convinced about it all.

twooo

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What for, in case they get kidnapped??

Dedrater

Not sure if this is true, but I heard this family attended one of the McCanns get rich quick schemes that was being held in the Liverpool Echo Arena not to long ago, there were quite a few in attendance, including the Matthews family.

The Zohan

Glad the little lad is OK.

The mum does have a face to go trick or treating with mind!

If not an arranged marriage then he certianly won the lads pig/Urko night and took it to extreme by marrying her as well

mamoon2

Have you lot not heard the latest?

Firstly that picture was took after the mother knew her child had been found.

Secondly, the family paid the ransom and police tracked the kidnappers (2 x Romanians and a Pakistani) and arrested them and recovered the money minus £10k

Father was helping Greater Manchester Police with sorting out the ransom which was paid in Paris where French Police tracked the kidnappers until the boy was released.

Don't think the family have anything to do with this but maybe someone close or a rival has arranged it

Scooby Soon!

Muslim?

I have not followed this story properly but its not unheard of for mosques to put money towards something like this....

Leslie

It never actually occurred to me to wonder where the money did come from. I know he was said to have come back to UK before the lad was released and then must have gone back again. I am sure he did not nick from somewhere.

I still find that it does not concern me where the money came from, but I am very happy to see that the little lad is now free and safe again.

Les

urban

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Kebabs and curry chips?

Clarebabes

The kid is 5 years old, his mum speaks very good English (albeit with a Northern accent ), so why can't this kid speak properly?

I did think this was dodgy, but I guess I could be wrong. His mum is certainly in the clear I reckon.... and leave her alone, that's probably what you'd look like if both your parents had the same grandparents (joke!!!!)