Editorial - Miss Wells and Miss Chapman

We at CrozierVision like to think of ourselves as fairly hard-hearted but even we have been moved by the disappearance of the 10-year old Cambridgeshire schoolchildren Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. It must be a dreadful time for the parents. Grieving for a lost child is (as we understand it) awful but not knowing whether to grieve or not must be far worse. To be in a situation of total ignorance where hopes can be raised or dashed on the merest wisp of news and where the imagination runs riot deserves our greatest sympathy. We can only hope that these two girls are found alive.

In the meantime, CrozierVision will be doing its best to make things as easy as possible for the police and the parents. To this end we will not be sending reporters to Cambridgeshire, we will not be questioning police competence (at least not while the investigation is in full swing), we will not be asking senior policemen or the parents "How do you feel?", we will not be wasting police time by demanding information and press conferences, we will not doorstep the parents or point TV cameras at their houses, we will not have pointless "live" link ups with our man on the ground and will not be demanding that the parents appear in front of the cameras to make "emotional" appeals for their children's return.