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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Cops probe strange case

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Di­ane Singh is 14 years old. She at­tends the St Charles High School in Tu­na­puna.On the morn­ing of May 7 she left her home at 51 Bharath Street in St Au­gus­tine to go to school.She ar­rived at the school but sur­veil­lance video in the area, ob­tained by Crime­Watch host Ian Al­leyne, would lat­er show her get­ting in­to an AE 92 hatch­back Corol­la ve­hi­cle.Her moth­er re­port­ed her daugh­ter miss­ing to the Tu­na­puna po­lice who im­me­di­ate­ly start­ed an in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

But Di­ane's moth­er, Sharon, felt that the po­lice were tak­ing too long to find her daugh­ter and so, 13 days af­ter her daugh­ter went miss­ing, she sought the help of Al­leyne.With­in hours of Singh's ap­pear­ance on the pro­gramme, Al­leyne was able to lo­cate the ve­hi­cle which was cap­tured in the video. He went to the home of the young man who dri­ves the ve­hi­cle and by Thurs­day, two days af­ter Sharon Singh ap­peared on Crime­Watch, Al­leyne had found Di­ane and re­unit­ed her with her moth­er.

But this was no hap­py end­ing.The teenag­er cried pro­fuse­ly on the pro­gramme and in­ves­ti­ga­tors from Tu­na­puna, who have been on the case since she was first re­port­ed miss­ing, came to the stu­dio on find­ing out that Al­leyne had found Di­ane.In­ves­ti­ga­tor, con­sta­ble Mc­Queen, com­mend­ed Al­leyne for his swift ac­tion in find­ing the teenag­er, telling him that the in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the po­lice had led them to one trail but they had been un­able to find the girl.

Al­leyne told the of­fi­cer he was glad to help. He said while he was not a po­lice of­fi­cer, peo­ple of­ten trust­ed him and came to him with in­for­ma­tion when he aired sto­ries.Ap­par­ent­ly, con­trary to what had been re­port­ed, Di­ane was not with the man who was dri­ving the car. She was in the care of a Cepep work­er who gave her name as Sacha, and who ac­com­pa­nied Di­ane to the Crime­Watch stu­dio.

The woman told Al­leyne she was work­ing in the area where Di­ane lived and they had start­ed talk­ing. She said dai­ly the girl would talk to her and con­fide in her about things which were hap­pen­ing in her life.They even­tu­al­ly ex­changed phone num­bers and Sacha told Al­leyne Di­ane would of­ten call her to talk about prob­lems. But Di­ane's moth­er even­tu­al­ly took Di­ane's phone away from her.On the day when Di­ane ran away from home, the dri­ver of the Corol­la and his girl­friend picked her up at the school and took her to Sacha's home.

Tu­na­puna po­lice told Al­leyne they are con­tin­u­ing their in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the mat­ter and have ques­tioned the girl and her par­ents based on al­le­ga­tions made.


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