General Chat

I don't think the Pakistani police realised how big the gang was or how they were spread over other countries. It makes you wonder how many other children have been taken for whatever reasons.

I read that the extended family sold jewellery and heirlooms and an extended family with this nationality could run into a lot of people so the £110,000 (I think it was that amount) could have been raised without them being really rich. I think at the beginning the family in Pakistan were said to be not well off, so didn't understand why they were targeted.

It will be interesting to see the full story when it comes out, let's hope the arrests made will lead to further information about other children taken, they wouldn't have this large a set up to only take one child!

Perhaps the gang didn't expect the case to get so much worldwide coverage.
There was a picture of the Dad and boy kissing each other, and the lad looks thin but so much like his Dad.

Lizx

According to the paper, the family sold all their jewellery to raise the ransom, the father was told to pay the money in Manchester which is why he came home, then his instructions were changed to Paris, but the whole time he was travelling with the money, including the hand over he was under surveillance. The Mail said it was not known if he knew he was under surveillance. I think the family must have been quite well off because the gang burgled the family home before they took the child.

Apparently they knew where the gang lived before the money exchanged hands. I wonder if they were already known to the police.

There is something odd going on here they're not letting on to, and why is it getting so much publicity?

I dont understand why they kidnapped a child from an 'ordinary' family. Surly its better to target a rich family then there is mor chance of getting the ransom. Unless the family were in on it!!

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Seems like Sahil's kidnap has opened up a real can of worms, with an international operation being mounted to pay the ransom demanded but with it being followed and arrests made. If this was a ring of kidnappers who knows what else will be found out and maybe children who have been missing, will be found or at least it will be known what happened to them. Hopefully it will be safer in some ways for children now, especially if they can get even more of the gang.

Lizx