The police will pursue it if they have enough evidence to do so without her giving evidence. The evidence posted is more than enough.
Caroline flack comes to mind. Her partner didn’t want to press charges but it still went to crown court
If that statement is accurate then he is a proper ****. Putting money above his daughter's welfare. Prick.
I thought I saw it mentioned earlier that it could fizzle if she didn’t want to pursue it. Someone online somewhere was suggesting that was one of the many reasons so few of these cases end in a conviction. Hopefully that is wrong if what the evidence posted so far turns out to be true
If you have a woman with bruising who then refuses to press charges the police will weigh it up. Do they have enough evidence to convict? A friend of ours was beaten by her husband and she refused to press charges but the police had seen enough to feel confident of a conviction and he was charged anyway. (He was suffering from severe mental health issues and killed himself - and she still feels guilty about it so that says a lot about love and violence).
Thanks, I was pretty sure about Arsenal but had a doubt about beyond the 50's. But Everton I'd thought had been there forever! Appreciate your reply.
The statement by her father can be read differently to how it's being portrayed here. It may be that she regrets going public with it (or her phone has been hacked, but unlikely) now that all the sordid details are known by everyone. The suggestion to take it down could have been an attempt to limit the humiliation she was feeling but obviously too late. The rest of it could be explained by his shock of what has happened to his daughter by someone they new well. The above is just an alternative possibility, they are not necessarily money grabbing by that statement.
The problems with this interpretation are: - the hacking claim which is almost certainly BS - the part where he goes on about how they have known him since the under 21s and their relationship hasn’t been good I don’t know I guess you could argue that that part is “and we are shocked and wouldn’t have expected this from him”. But anything like that is conspicuous by it’s absence It just very much read like he was more concerned about the news getting out than what had actually happened to his daughter as well as the pretty obvious implication that this has been going on for some time
I read it as a shell shocked dad who may have actually liked the lad and is shocked what he did, how as a dad he didn't know and now how his daughter is subjected to all this as it is public. As a dad of a 32 year old daughter (FM, she is getting old!) , that is how I would feel - I would want to murder Mason Greenwood, but my first concern would be what my daughter was going through and how I missed what was going on. I also read some other quotes and this is how I read it - not IMO worried about losing the gravy train. It doesn't matter how old your kid gets, you want to protect her and feel you have failed if something like this happens and you are the last to hear about it.
We will find out the truth soon enough but other explanations to his statement are possible. As Gregm1988 says above, the bit about phone hacking is probably BS which gives the impression she is having second thoughts. It may be that she didn't expect the huge publicity this has generated and now regrets it.
If the evidence is strong enough they don't need her to press charges. Obviously they haven't got enough evidence at this point.
Feels like Burnley are just starting to realise how much of a must-win this is. Watford need to realise it themselves very, very quickly.
Suspect those two sides will be joining each other in the Championship next season. In Watford's case, they probably waited a month or so too late to recruit Roy.
Those Pozzos, always too slow to change managers. If Watford does go down, there's going to be a feeding frenzy to pick up some of their players. Emmanuel Dennis, Ismaila Sarr, Josh King and Joao Pedro would all have a market...maybe not so much their defenders.
