Tuesday, July 15, 2003
Every time I hear any more news about this missing school girl Shevaun Pennington who has possibly run off with a former US Marine the story seems to get weirder and weirder. Based on what I've heard on the BBC, they met on an internet chatroom (which probably means that well known internet expert Carol Vorderman will be back on the ITV news to warn parents how internet chatrooms turn their children into drug-taking, drinking, smoking louts, five seconds after even hearing the word chatroom teenagers are out killing people, she knows, she's done tests!) where she thought he was fourteen, he thought she was nineteen. He flew to Manchester airport where they met and, despite the fact that presumerably they both realised they'd lied to one another they both flew off to France anyway. Now the French are saying that they're sure the girl flew back more or less straight away and the Marine's family have admitted he was in court, though acquited, for attacking an underage girl. The fact that they describe him as 'gentle' should worry anyone. I expect that in a few more days we'll find out they've both joined a cult or something.
