The murder of Tia Sharp by Stuart Hazell in 2012 was such a sad and grim tale that even hardened court reporters were left shaken and upset at the conclusion of the Old Bailey trial. Why was Hazell so trusted by Tia's family? How much did the police suspect Hazell? Did the support of the Sharp family make Hazell less suspicious to the police? Was he always destined to kill Tia? What actually happened the night she died? All of these questions and more will be examined and discussed in The Vanishing of Tia Sharp.
This is the shocking true story of how a step-grandfather murdered the young girl who trusted him. On August 3, 2012, Tia Sharp, a 12-year-old school girl, was reported missing from her grandmother s house in New Addington, South London. A call by her mother alerted the police to Tia s disappearance, and a massive search operation began. A nationwide appeal was launched to find Tia and her family, including her step-grandfather, 37-year-old Stuart Hazell, made a public appeal to find her. It was reported that Tia had disappeared after being dropped off at a train station to go shopping, but in the days that followed a very different story emerged. Only seven days after Tia was reported missing the terrible news came that her body had been found wrapped in garbage bags and hidden in her grandmother s attic. The truth that unfolded over the course of the day horrified the public; not only had the police searched the house on three separate occasions before discovering Tia s body, late the following evening, but Stuart Hazell the man who Tia trusted, the man who appealed for her return was charged with murder. Nigel Cawthorne examines the appalling case of an evil step-grandfather who betrayed his family s trust, deceived friends and neighbors, and cut short the life of a young, well-loved girl."
When Tia Sharp went missing and Stuart Hazell was interviewed by ITV, many viewers were absolutely convinced that Hazell was responsible for Tia's disappearance. The television interview only confirmed the deep suspicions and grave doubts many already had about this ramshackle man they'd seen fleetingly on the nightly news. As far as the police could deduce, Hazell was almost certainly the last person to speak to Tia before she disappeared. It appeared, even at the time, that he was quite probably the last person to see her. And yet, mystifyingly, Stuart Hazell was not treated as a suspect by the police when the investigation began. A trio of factors in this bleak and harrowing case clouded the obvious. These factors all played a pivotal part in prolonging and complicating the investigation. What should have been an open and shut case became something more complex and strange. In the book that follows we will see how trusted Stuart Hazell was by the Sharp family and how was able to develop a close bond with Tia Sharp. This book will also attempt to deduce what happened the fateful and tragic night that Tia lost her life and then somehow make sense of the bizarre situation that Stuart Hazell, thanks to some very basic police mistakes, found himself trapped in. The Tia Sharp case was unbearably sad and at times perplexing. We will attempt to see what, if any, lessons this tragic case ultimately left us with.
Lisa Sharp and her husband Chance Benson have always shared one goal: to protect their families at all costs. Since they were teenagers and intruded on a man in the bathroom of Londons Ritz Hotel, overhearing his plans to bomb a local gentlemans club, they have vowed to protect their families always. Arriving in Canada with their son for the Christmas holidays, the last thing the couple expects is for their only child to be kidnapped. The couples only hope is the legend of the silent brotherhood, which they believe will help to keep their son and his cousins safe just like it did years ago
The Silent Sisterhood At nineteen, Tia Sharp leaves her very protective, comfortable lifestyle, family and friends to move from London, England to Ottawa, Ontario. Tia will discover an even stronger bond with her father-in-law, a man who is everything her own father is not, making her life in Canada complete. With help from her hard-nosed producer, she will also her dreams and turn the sadness of her marriage into something positive for television viewers drawn each week to the plot twists of The Saga. With her beloved family and friends by her side, Tia will make the impossible possible.... Tia's friend, Kate Lee, is beautiful inside and out. Loyal to everyone she loves, Kate was raised to believe that a person's character is everything, and she carries herself gracefully. An only child to a single-parent mother, Kate was very lonely until she met her best friend at six years old. They have been inseparable as their families have become close. Kate has never known pain until the loss of her baby unveils her inner strength, simultaneously unmasking her vulnerability, making everything seem suddenly unbearably sad. Her boyfriend, Jaden Blake, has no one to turn to when tragedy strikes the couple, so he turns to the very thing that destroyed his family as a child: drugs and alcohol, forsaking the love he shares with Kate and the future they have planned... Brooke Williams had no choice but to grow up fast, with a mother grief-stricken by the tragic death of Brooke's father, Jack. Alone since Jack's death, Brooke believes the reasons for this solitude are all her fault. She has never known true friendship or love. She will meet Kate, Jaden and Tia, and together they will build a lasting friendship until a shameful secret and a powerful man's need to hold and control his family will try to tear apart everything that Brooke has built with her mother and her best friends. Nathan Carter has it all: a successful career and beautiful women to share his bed at any time or day. A romantic man, who grew up hearing the love stories that his mother told him and his siblings, he truly believes that his angel is out there and they will meet and fall in love. She will be everything he has ever desired. His jealousy and thoughtlessness take away the two women and his children whom he loves more than life itself... The very sexy, charming, sophisticated lawyer will be outside looking into the life he has thrown away on the day of his son's birth. With the encouragement, love, and support of his mother-in-law, Nathan finds the strength and the will power to win back not only his wife and children, but also a family and a love that has always been there since the very day he was struck with the waves of emotion, we called love... at Amsterdam airport....
This book argues that Britain is gripped by an endemic and ongoing panic about the position of children in society – which frames them as, alternately, victims and threats. It argues the press is a key player in promoting this discourse, which is rooted in a wide-scale breakdown in social trust.
Dr. Josh Okelly is a handsome, former OHL player, who lives on the edge and never gives a damn about the consequences of his actions. Josh was sentenced to five months in jail for drinking and driving with a suspended license. The authorities tried to charge him with crimes against humanity during the civil war in Liberia and failed. With help from Lock Washington, Tia Carter will make a powerful movie loosely based on Joshs experiences during the Liberian civil war, portraying good men witnessing violence becoming the kinds of persons capable of horrible acts of violence. How is Josh going to charm his way out of this mess?
Forest Antwi is a romantic man, but losing his first and only love has left an empty void in his life. He has vowed never to love again, but then he falls for the wrong woman. He becomes a man running away from adark past, but what he doesn't know is that the past always catches up no matter how far, or how much distance, one puts between the present and the past. Where will he run now? James Akwasi Tawiah, a local boy from Ghana, who has not learned the ways of the West and thinks he knows it all, sleeps with women and takes their life-savings to fund his failed business ventures. Despite being a self-proclaimed Christian, James is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all, who thinks he has the gift of being able to talk his way out of anything... "With unerring insight into the lives of young Africans, carefully and wonderfully, Trudie Sturgess tells a moving story of young rape victims. Rape is a topic that many African don't perceive as a violent act. They don't think it's wrong. Sensitivities so strong this novel will outrun the grave." Laurie Gordon, Eye for talent, editor. Miss Sturgess writes so gracefully and with such restraint that all graphic sexual acts leap off the pages with an impact that resonate in one's mind long after the last page of her book is read... [ She] has captured her characters fears, emotions and complexity in what is sure to became an international significance." Joyce Osei-Owusu, Publisher, Voice of Ghanaians Canada "When I finished Trudie Sturgess's novel about, ' The Sons of Africa, my fist response was this is a story that Ghallywood needs!Miss Sturgess didn't hold back in her condemnation of the sexual exploitations of African girl's by African men. I sat down and I wept. " Jessica Williams, Ghallywood Actress
The disappearance of Shannon Matthews in Dewsbury in 2008 is a true crime case that people still seem to be fascinated by. Rarely a year goes past without a new television documentary on the case or a battery of tabloid updates concerning the activities of the disgraced Karen Matthews. The reason why the Shannon Matthews case became so famous is that it didn't end in the way people expected. The missing child was found alive and there was an outrageous twist when it became apparent that the mother was involved and it had all been a strange sort of hoax. The Shannon Matthews case was like a black comedy written by a thriller writer. The fact it was true made it all the more astonishing.
