Mystery girl

[Sarongman]

I see, with interest, that the girl found in a distressed and disoriented state in Dublin is not a teenager, but is 25 and Australian. It seems to be, from the bit we see here, that she has a fair degree of intellectual retardation, so how in hell did she get there? She certainly had the Gardaí stumped for some few weeks. there was a unique dental plate so it's a good bet that Kirbstone was consulted for an I.D.

I will put one theory forward, that is that she found, during some nasty ruckus, a small, old fashioned British police telephone box with far more room inside than you could believe, hid there and walked out in Dublin. She did see a Doctor--but he didn't see her.

[Kirbstone]

I must admit that I had paid reports on this news item scant attention until Sarongman's post.

I've just read an Irish Times report which doesn't add anything to what Sarongman said. It doesn't mention any dental plate, but that would certainly have helped identify her.
Only once have I been asked by police to identify someone from dental records. Many years ago while I was practicing in Hampshire in England two coppers arrived with two Tupperware bowls containing jaw parts of a young man who I had treated only scant months before. He had lain down on a local railway track and the next train did the rest.

I even remembered clearly what the guy had said to me on his last visit to the practice. It was high Summer and he had just finished his schooling at Eton, no less and was whiling his summertime away swimming in his (titled) parents' pool in the garden.

The police said he had taken 'an upper' (amphetamines) and used the train to top himself! He certainly wasn't talking to his parents, either.

T.

[Kirbstone]

I see today that the girl has been exposed a a fraud and her 'broken English' just a charade. She is being repatriated to Australia where she has a number of charges outstanding against her.
Our Gardaí are lamenting the waste of some 2,000 man-hours spent by them unravelling her 'mystery', plus the cost to the State of her police-accompanied repatriation.

T.

[Sarongman]

A bit of a national embarrassment here. Yes, a drifter with some psychological issues. Um, we're not all like that ya know

[Kirbstone]

Well, SM, If you ever fancy 'drifting' in our direction I'd personally see to it that we'd steer well clear of the Gardaí and sink a few pints into the bargain.

I'd also give you a test drive of my BB. !!

T.

[Sarongman]

We'd love to take you up on that offer, however the test drive should be before the few pints. I'm a cheap drunk and could, conceivably, do more damage than your infant son all those decades ago There's a cottage just 10 minutes walk to the sea and 10 minutes drive to Dingle that we've seen advertised for 130,000 Euros, and we would be over for an inspection in a flash if our Lotto boat comes in.

[Sinned]

With regard to the opening posts to this thread and not having seen the original article I haven't a clue what you are talking about. What mystery girl and what was she claiming or had done?

[Big and Bashful]

(Very) brief summary of events: There were things, they happened.

Hope that helped!

[Kirbstone]

Dennis,

A couple of weeks ago the Gardaí picked up this lone 'teenage' girl on a Dublin street and it appeared she could only speak broken English, which led the police to suspect she was perhaps Eastern European and the victim of sex trafficking, so they took her into custodial care and began an investigation into her identity &c.

They released a photograph of her onto the Internet hoping for some help from 'the public'. Within hours she was identified by more than one source in Australia and it was quickly established that she was 25 years old and had a range of fraud and deception charges outstanding against her in Eastern Australia, of which country she is a citizen.

Her 'broken English' was designed to waste police time and was yet another charade.

She was deported back to psychiatric care in OZ with a police escort at the expense of the Irish taxpayer.

T.

[Sinned]

Than you and at least you were able to do one thing that we seem incapable of doing - deporting an undesirable. We have extortionists, murderers, rapists, terrorists and others as bad walking the streets that are not British nationals and should not even be here and yet we seem to have difficulty getting rid of them. It's not the cost of deporting them that I object to it's just that they seem to take our gullible authorities for a ride. There's an example in today's paper of us paying for flying lessons, for God's sake, of an adult that is the son of a wealthy couple in Ethiopia and has been lying through his teeth about his age and status.

[Kirbstone]

I combed both the Telegraph & The Independent online & didn't pick up that article about flying lessons for the Ethiopian. Maybe he just wants to fly into the Shard, or somewhere interesting like that.
I did follow most of the saga of that git from Jordan, eventually repatriated. I forget his name already.

Problem with Britain is it's inescapably high profile World-wide, with practically everyone tuned into 'its' every move, so deporting undesireables &c. is very much more difficult.

That girl posed no threat to anyone, thankfully, so her case was very low profile. Ireland, being a small 'banana' republic can do more-or-less what it wants (with Angela Merkel's approval), and it's just announced that they're shortly going to get rid of the Troika & bail-out restrictions as well, so good luck to 'em. We're not going to have Greek-style street rioting here anytime soon.
The panacea here is having a quiet 'pint' and settling all the World's problems there.

T.

[Sinned]

The story I saw was in the Daily Wail but I just entered "flying lessons for Ethiopian" in to bing.com and it came up with articles. Try this one which gives an alternative view: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 24391.html.

Just trying to be fair because I can only go on what's reported and what the press always report the truth don't they? LOL

Dennis