The Vanishing Triangle

by Claire McGowan

We can perhaps even say that self-policing, being more careful, might help with this, but ultimately it’s down to these men not to attack us.

There must be better ways to keep women safe than by imposing a virtual curfew, or a tax, via expensive trips home, on not getting raped and murdered.

In many of the cases in this book, when a man is finally caught for killing or hurting a woman, he’s found to have committed violent crimes before.

Colgan was out of the picture for the triangle disappearances, but I include this case to show how dangerous it is not to heed the warning signs when men hurt women.

Almost always they will go on to do it again, and worse.

Yet it strikes me that so many of these women and girls would be alive now if someone had paid heed the first time a man revealed his true self.

Judgement would start, and who knows what difference that makes to an investigation in those crucial early days?

At his appeal, the judge made a point of saying he was letting Vincent go in part because he spoke well and dressed nicely, he’d always worked hard and even raised money for charity, all of which seemed to count for more than the lives of the many women he’d terrorised, beaten and