If she had gotten into difficulties while swimming then her body would have washed up somewhere by now, one would have thought. Abduction is the Occam's choice and they simply missed the bag leaving it in situ.
If she had gotten into difficulties while swimming then her body would have washed up somewhere by now, one would have thought. Abduction is the Occam's choice and they simply missed the bag leaving it in situ.
Your kids don't need to go to Asia to give you nightmares, by the way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loy Toy
They do of course not need to go to Asia to make you feel very proud of them, either.
She will abide by your decision, a 21 year old woman. How quaint.Quote:
Originally Posted by Backspin
Looking at the photo of her laying head to head with a "friend", with a full blush on her face, suggest she was ecstatically happy and content. Her new found "friend" of course went off the next day without even knocking on her door to collect her.Quote:
Originally Posted by Backspin
Do any sharks swim in the area?Quote:
Originally Posted by Seekingasylum
Does her father believe being abducted is a pleasant event?
You can't be serious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seekingasylum
Yabba is the scourge of society in the impoverished countries, especially.
Maybe she ran away to join the circus/DJ's entourage. Entry demands throwing away all personal belongings as well as people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mendip
^ Let's hope so.
It depends what kind of relationship you have with your kids now doesn't it. If the parents are still together and there is a close bond, some kids even at that age won't do something that they know isn't approved by their parents. I don't believe these parents were still together.Quote:
Originally Posted by OhOh
She most likely traveled by herself because a friend backed out and couldn't make it. Talk to any young solo traveler and thats what they will say. Her parents most likely was fine with her traveling with a friend. And probably had reservations about her going solo. But hey, my tickets are purchased, im all ready to go, but my friend backed out. Do you really expect me to cancel ? No. So that's that.
Im going with the swim gone bad theory as well. Maybe she will be found washed up on shores further along
That or abduction. With the time thats passed, a shallow grave is most likely where this tragically ends. Or maybe she will never be found. Just like Natalie Holloway,
Maybe she sailed off into the moonlight with a billionaire on his yacht...or maybe not...
Hope, by some miracle, she pops up alive and well soon.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Backspin
It seems your investigation has hit the snag of contradicting yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Backspin
Jesus you really are a twat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seekingasylum
Do you just come across as an upper class snob, or do you just project (pretended to have) a higher education, a previous white collar job and the ability to annoy normal people?
One thing i can gather, is you were never the life and soul of a party, and your middle name was Billy-No-Mates.
GFY.
Who may have a greater understanding of life in Asia and a movie plot to sell.Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy
Projecting too much?Quote:
Originally Posted by Seekingasylum
Yeah...I came to Asia in 1987 and heroin seemed to be a scourge, and the worst. But yabba is far worse and far more destructiveQuote:
Originally Posted by Wally Dorian Raffles
Somebody told me a story about a Japanese girl, 14 or 15 years old, who used the drug for a week. She jumped off her balcony and killed herself to stop the voices. I had a taxi driver in BKK masturbating as he drove me home - he was manic and flippant and became aggressive when I told him to stop so I could get out. He was high on yabba without doubt. Just a couple of examples, but you can bet your life that many of the stories you read of Thais doing crazy things are related to the `crazy drug` as it was dubbed in the media in LOS as.Quote:
Originally Posted by Latindancer
Latest update
Cambodian officials looking for a British woman missing on Koh Rong island are focusing their search on fishing boats and have interviewed six men about her disappearance.
Ben Warner, a leader of the volunteer search team, said: “We’re running out of areas where we can look on land, so we’re trying to look at ways that she could have got off the island.
The irony of Thai fishermen raping and killing a westerner in Cambodia would certainly be a twist of fate.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Backspin
Where is Thailand mentioned? Cambodia, read Cambodia....Quote:
Originally Posted by Seekingasylum
^ Referencing the Kha Tao murders.
The Burmese boys taking the rap for the Thais.
Jungle island’s dark past surfaces as search for missing backpacker continues
A spate of violent and deadly attacks on tourists has seen this island paradise dubbed the “new Koh Tao” as another backpacker vanishes.
A remote island paradise where a British backpacker mysteriously disappeared last week has a dark and deadly history.
Since 2013, the jungle-covered island of Koh Rong in Cambodia has seen a spate of horror attacks on tourists, including at least one murder. Others have been violently robbed and assaulted or found dead in suspicious or bizarre circumstances.
Amelia Bambridge, 21, vanished at a rave party on the jungle covered isle of Koh Rong in Cambodia last Wednesday.
Authorities initially suspected she drowned after going for a late night swim on Police Beach, where the rave was staged, in the early hours of Thursday morning.
But Ms Bambridge’s father Phil is convinced she has been kidnapped and “taken into the woods”. The Vietnam-based teacher arrived on Koh Rong at the weekend to look for his daughter.
https://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...eace52f2b8883c
So there is some history. This is why women traveling by thyself is not really tenable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mendip
Sure 1000's get away with it. But the danger is there
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mendip
Wow, allegedly, a tourist island in Asian country, has had one murder in six years.
Look around you, wherever you are living, what's you annual murder number or other suspicious or bizarre deaths?
Yeah verily they shalt be smote, as 'tis written in the book of drummond.Quote:
Originally Posted by Backspin
You don't often hear about men being raped and murdered by women, do you?
Of course solo women travellers are more vulnerable to this sort of thing than their male counterparts, and you'd have to be an idiot to try and argue otherwise.
I guess you won't really go for the forthcoming poll 'Is it more comfortable to eat christmas dinner balancing on your head?', then. :sad:
As a girl who has travelled solo, both in my home country of PI and in SE Asia, yes I agree that there are more dangers/risks as a solo female traveller. I am not a long term backpacker travelling on a gap year, but I do consider myself as a backpacker (short term) and budget traveller. Whenever I travelled by myself, I always researched about the place. That's how I chanced upon TD - I was researching about an upcoming trip which included a Thai-Cambo border crossing.
During the travel proper, I don't stay out too late, nor drink too much, etc. Mostly sensible stuff. When I hired a motorbike driver to tour me around the area, I informed the resort staff of my plans and gave my contact number, as well as the name & number of my driver. I may have been a bit paranoid at that time (and I didn't trust the bike driver 100%), so I thought better safe than sorry.
As such, I'm still well, alive and safe. There have been times when I felt a bit uncomfortable due to men's stares, but maybe that was just me (or maybe they were really staring at me or my legs, as I wore shorts then).
Fortunately, I haven't been harassed, but have heard a personal account of another solo female traveller who had been. She was my seat mate on the bus from Cambodia to Vietnam and we had lots to talk about during the 7-hour journey. She was a (white) nurse from Canada and was harassed by a tuktuk driver in Cambodia. Fortunately, she was able to get safely out of that sticky situation. So yes, harassment does happen to female travellers - more often than is reported in the news.
There was a story before of a Chinese-Australian girl who cut her hair and pretended to be a boy as she travelled solo to the less touristy (and more dangerous) parts of the world.
Sorry for the long post - just expressing my opinion and travel experience in a largely male dominated forum.
No need to apologize, an interesting and welcome perspective.Quote:
Originally Posted by katie23
Shows how shitty the world is though that the focus is always on what women need to do in order to stay safe rather than on men simply not harassing / raping / murdering them. Would've loved to have had a daughter on one hand but on the other kinda glad I didn't given all the scumbags out there.
I’m with Katie. I backpacked alone a year and a half around Asia. Absolutely loved it. Only once got into a dodgy situation on a dark street at night. (Luckily the man who approached me was smaller so I knocked him on his arse while screaming at him like a mad woman.) Didn’t do drugs or party with strangers. Made friends with people who are my best friends today. Married a man I met while backpacking.
I wouldn't want my daughters travelling solo around Asia or anywhere tbh.
I met a broken girl on Sukhumvit who had been raped in Sri Lanka after falling out with her boyfriend.
Some evil fuckers out there
Sad outcome, breaking news just now.
However could the body get 30 miles offshore? Usually they go the other way and get washed up on land.
Body of backpacker, 21, missing in Cambodia found 30 miles out to sea
Amelia was last seen on the Cambodian island of Koh Rong a week ago at a party at the popular tourist hotspot.
The body of missing British backpacker Amelia Bambridge has been found in Cambodia, authorities have confirmed.
Emergency services have been scouring the island of Koh Rong after the 21-year-old disappeared more than a week ago.
The body was reportedly found in the sea near the Thai-Cambodian border more than 30 miles from where she vanished.
It has been brought to shore where a post-mortem will be carried out, according to local media.
Her family have travelled to the area to help the emergency services with the search.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...found-20763524
That's a long way for a rip current to take someone...
Will wait for the post mortem...
The tide was out when she allegedly bathed at 0300 hrs on the morning of her disappearance.
Extraordinary that she would have drifted unconscious 30 miles up the coast if she had decided to take a swim and then gotten into difficulties. Abduction by fishermen and then thrown overboard is still a more likely option.
In a week?Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy
Nice of them to put her clothes back on first, eh?Quote:
Abduction by fishermen and then thrown overboard is still a more likely option.
That's a detail we dont have is it ?Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
A rape/murder would be a crime of impulse and or drug related. So its highly unlikely that the body was moved and placed into the water as a coverup
Strange how she drifted out there. There could be some current and conditions that explain it. Most likely they will have to investigate that to determine if its possible for something to drift that direction.
Anyway RIP and prayers for the family. Imagine being there and hearing the call. 'Hey, found something over here'
It might be a detail you don't have. That can be fixed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Backspin
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a9178866.htmlQuote:
“Based on the identity given to us, the tattoo on her body and the clothes she was last seen in, we believe it is her,” said Lieutenant General Tea Sokha, deputy commander of Cambodia’s navy. He said authorities had been tipped off about the body’s location by fishermen who saw it.
If the cause of death is simply drowning and there is no sign of any violence, they won't bother. Why would they?Quote:
Most likely they will have to investigate that to determine if its possible for something to drift that direction.
I feel for the poor family, but at least they have closure. Imagine if she had never been found?
Body of British backpacker Amelia Bambridge found at sea in Cambodia, police say
The body of British backpacker Amelia Bambridge has been found at sea more than 30 miles from where she disappeared, Cambodian police said.
The 21-year-old Amelia Bambridge went missing after a beach party in Cambodia.
Ms Bambridge, from Worthing, West Sussex, was last seen by friends at around 3am last Thursday morning at a beach party on the island of Koh Rong.
Police, scuba divers, government officials and volunteers joined the search, and on Sunday were also using a drone to scour the dense jungle and coastline.
After her family flew out to join the search on the weekend, it ended in tragedy for them on Thursday morning when local police announced they had found a body.
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/...eg?imwidth=480
A large search operation is underway on the island of Koh Rong CREDIT: VIRAL PRESS
Ms Bambridge was on a gap year, and had been staying at the Nest Beach Club, 40 minutes from the beach where she was last seen.
Her mother, Linda Bambridge, was contacted by the manager of the hostel after she failed to check out. Her purple rucksack containing her purse, phone and bank cards were found on a nearby beach.
The backpacker was officially reported missing, and her mother and other relatives travelled to Cambodia to join locals in the search on Sunday.
Linda Bambridge told The Argus newspaper in Sussex it was “very out of character” for her daughter to go missing, adding that she was “normally so organised”.
"There doesn't seem to be any urgency,” she said. “Her friend is still there as they were due to leave the island today, but she hasn't left because Amelia is missing."
Reacting to Thursday morning's news, Ms Bambridge's local Conservative MP Tim Loughton said: "Devastated to hear the terribly sad news about Amelia Bambridge this morning - the thoughts and prayers of everyone in Worthing are with her family and friends."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/31/body-british-backpacker-amelia-bambridge-found-sea-cambodia/
Excellent tip.Quote:
Originally Posted by katie23
As DI 'arry discovered, clothed. As some of said, would an abductor do that?Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
How many people with tattoos inform the passport office of them?
What the fuck are you on about?Quote:
Originally Posted by OhOh
"Unconscious"?Quote:
Originally Posted by Seekingasylum
Christ on a fucking bike.
:rolleyes:
Because there will be a cohort of British people who will blame Cambodia and the authrities and the locals et al for this. But if they could prove that something about the water vortex carried her out there, then it could be shown that it was just an ill timed swim that killed her. And not sleeping cops and bad locals.Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
Now we have the usual debate going on Twitter. Hoards of 20 something girls saying its safe to travel anywhere solo because they did.
There's lots of men who rent big bikes in Thailand, and ride up and down the streets pissed up with no helmet. how many of them die ? Does that make it safe because they got away with it ?
You can get away with lots of things in life. Its all just chances.