![]() ![]() It was not until more than a day later, just after 11pm on Sunday, that police finally put out a public appeal. Why was it that when anguished parents of the girls - fun-loving but sensible, responsible and essentially level-headed young women - called police, reporting just how unusual it was for the three, who lived their lives on social media, posting updates, selfies and video clips as a matter of routine, to have gone silent simultaneously then failed to come home, their concerns were, at first, brushed aside? Just how was it the wreckage lay undiscovered in wooded undergrowth just yards from a busy dual carriageway for nearly 48 hours? Whether they died instantly in the horror smash or might have survived, had they been found sooner, remains among the many questions that haunt loved ones.īut quite apart from an outpouring of grief in the tight-knit communities stretching between the western reaches of Newport and the eastern fringes of Cardiff this week, there has also been a growing sense of disquiet and, more than that, of anger. Three others, singer Eve Smith, 21, beautician Darcy Ross, also 21, and amateur footballer Rafel Jeanne, 24, were dead when rescuers found them. Sophie is understood to have had surgery for a bleed on the brain (she also suffered fractures to her neck, spine and face). The two still living: 20-year-old trainee bank manager Sophie Russon and bouncy castle business owner Shane Loughlin, 32, were rushed to hospital with serious injuries and remain there still. What rescuers saw, picked out by torchlight at the scene, is difficult to even think about. The messages reached a heart-rending crescendo nearly 48 hours on, late on Sunday night, when a small group of determined friends spotted ominous signs of tyre tracks skidding off the side of the busy A48, on the outskirts of Cardiff, and down a grassy bank. Pictured: Darcy Ross, 21, who died in the crash ‘Please someone must know where they are!’ pleaded another. ‘Everyone is worried sick please everyone share this!’ begged one. ![]() Posters were printed and put up in shop windows, online appeals were shared again and again. A couple of men the girls had met up with at the bar. Two other people were missing too, it transpired. Īs the hours dragged by, the slow trickle of concerned appeals became a torrent - a flood of terror, anguish and frustration as friends and relatives joined in. Were they sleeping it off somewhere? Still partying? Had purses or phones been lost? Were they in trouble? It wasn’t like them. The three young women, friends from childhood in South Wales, had gone to a bar the night before to let off steam after the working week, as they often did, but hadn’t returned. ![]() She’d woken that Saturday morning, exactly a week ago, and found her daughter hadn’t come home the night before. The messages on social media were low key at first: ‘Anyone seen Darcy, Eve or Sophie?’ one mother asks. ![]()
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