She had been walking in the countryside alone – is that enough to put you in danger? When I was a child – I was eleven when Annie went missing – I regularly went off on my own, roaming about our village and even further into the country. I walked and rode my bike, sometimes for miles, and I enjoyed being in nature by myself. If I was allowed to do this while still at primary school – and my parents were on the protective end of the spectrum, so I wasn’t given as much freedom as some of my friends – surely Annie, at twenty-six, would have felt safe to do the same.
