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Urgent appeal by police in Leeds to trace mother and young child
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Police are issuing an urgent appeal to trace a young 3 year old who dialled 999 and told them her mother wasn't moving.
http://news.sky.com/story/967204/urgent-appeal-for-girl-in-leeds-999-call
If anyone tweets, please share, and share on Facebook too. There is quite a lot of information so someone must know this woman or her child.
http://news.sky.com/story/967204/urgent-appeal-for-girl-in-leeds-999-call
If anyone tweets, please share, and share on Facebook too. There is quite a lot of information so someone must know this woman or her child.
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i don`t get that either, they managed to trace my granddaughter from a twenty minute phone call.
presumably she was using an unregistered mobile phone. but you'd think they'd be able to tell which was the nearest transmitter.
perhaps the little girl gave them the wrong information. mother might have changed her surname after a divorce for example.
Even on a PAYG mobile I was always under the assumption they can pinpoint a general area using the masts?
I used to cover the emergency lines for the deaf telephone relay service for when they had to call emergency services and this is what we were always advised was possible. Even 6 years ago.
Something not right here, very strange!
Have they called all the nurseries/schools in Leeds asking for details on all young girls with that name? Surely if she's nearly four then she'd be in nursery? Or would she not start until they reopen in September? I realise Ellie is a common name but check them all. Doctor's surgeries? She would have records.
I'm finding this really strange. Nowadays you can find Bob Random you knew 40 years ago within about 2 minutes online.
yes i'm wondering if it was a fake call, with an adult putting on a childlike voice.
Even then they would have been able to trace the call and wouldn't have even raised the news story, just arrested the hoax caller. I Imagine they're trying to trace the mother for another reason, maybe? It's the only thing I can think of.
Unless for some reason their tracing systems have failed
Also if the police want to trace anything like this, surely they know just to give the details to the forum users on 4chan and they'll find it in minutes? (as always)
By the time the request gets passed from dept to dept several hours if not days pass. It's only,when the right person gets on the case will anything be done. I suspect now it's in the news, someone will take ownership and get a rough idea where they are.
Tracking a PAYG mobile isn't all that hard now. They use a procedure in terror cases and other high profile cases where they look at other calls made from the same mobile mast. One will be a contract phone, which will have address details. They work from there.
As for the mother and childs name maybe the child surname is that of her fathers. therefore they have a hard job of finding the child by doctor, school records as it could be any surname.
Exactly. If I remember rightly from my journalism days, it needs to be an officer of the rank of Superintendent or above to make a request to access phone records. Getting a trace on a phone call usually takes place in the case of nuisance calls which are repeated more than once. I doubt they have a button to press in the event of a call like this to instigate an immediate trace.
Leeds is an enormous city, not including any of the outer postcode areas, this little girl might say she lives in Leeds but is actually in one of the towns surrounding it. I live 10 miles NW of Leeds in a completely separate town but we get referred to as being part of Leeds constantly.
Leeds is massive (I'm Leeds 8). Having heard part of the call on BBC News, the little girl definitely has traces of a Leeds accent.
Police are reporting that the call was taken over 24 hours ago, which is why they are so concerned and have confirmed that they have been unable (at least as yet) to trace it.
Edit: Oops, I see the 24 duration was already mentioned above. Sorry
Hope this ends well for them both.
It is no prank call you just have to hear the litltle girl on the clip on BBC news to know this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-19062560
Hope they find them soon and they are both going to be ok.
I heard it on there too. I couldn't figure out what was being said though.
I really hope they get found. It's strange they haven't found Ellie's or her mum's medical records or electrol roll details to track them down yet
Only thing I can add is that the '3-year-old' thing may be a red herring, as she sounds a little older, but it all sounds genuine to me.
Facebook brings up a couple of Stacey Halls in Leeds, but that will have been the first thing they checked.
20 Mins ? they found my sister in lot less just a few minutes on her mobile must depend on a lot of factors.