Scenario:
Your child dies whilst you're on holiday and (for reasons best known to yourself) you claim he or she must have been abducted.
As a result, the case attracts the attention of the world's media but more importantly the police forces of both the country in which you were holidaying and from your own country.
The police are suspicious, the media which was supportive in the early days has turned on you, printing all sorts of uncomfortable headlines heavily hinting that you have done something untoward with your child.
Eventually you are made chief suspect in your child's disappearance and every aspect of your holiday, your relationship with your child and family and friends, your comings and goings etc is put under the microscope. The police bust their guts trying to find some evidence that you hid your child's body.
Meanwhile most people in your home country and in the country in which you holidayed are convinced you're guilty of something.
Eventually, after months of investigation and trying to build a case against you, the police concede they lack any evidence against you, and you are no longer suspects. The case is shelved indefinitely. You sue the media for libel and settle out of court - a nice big juicy payment for your bank account.
Now, at this point you'd be forgiven for going to ground, issuing one final statement to the media along the lines of "we have come to terms with the fact that our daughter is gone, and just want to be left alone to grieve", then slink away into obscurity to spend all that lovely lolly you screwed out of the public and the papers.
But no. This is not what you do.
Instead you spend a small fortune on various private investigators, you write a book which gets serialised in the country's biggest circulation newspaper, you appear on TV chat shows, all allegedly to keep your child's profile high in the public consciousness even though you know what happened.
Then to cap it all, three whole years after the case was shelved you go to the highest man in your land, the prime minister, by sending him a letter demanding:
"a joint INDEPENDENT, TRANSPARENT and COMPREHENSIVE review of ALL information held in relation to our child's disappearance".
You are granted your wish and the country's most esteemed police force is drafted in to sift through all the evidence all over again, at great cost to the public purse.
You make yourself available for more TV appearances, BBC Crimewatch even, appealing for people to come forward who may have actually seen something.
The question I have to ask you is:
ARE YOU F@@KING MAD????
If not, what is your motivation for doing all of this?
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