Bobbi-Anne family: Why did she die?
Pal tells of parents’ pain after teen snatched & killed
EXCLUSIVE BY DAN WARBURTON
THE FAMILY of murdered BobbiAnne McLeod are desperately asking: “Why did she die?”
Last night the teen’s next-door neighbour told the Sunday Mirror of their anguish and hurt.
Tiffany Allan, who has known the family for eight years, said BobbiAnne, 18, “will always be in our minds” after the teenager was snatched from a bus stop and killed.
Asked how her family are coping, she said: “Questioning. I think for them the biggest question is why?
“We are trying to remain strong for them but you just don’t know what to do.”
Bobbi-Anne’s body was found eight miles from where she vanished last Saturday in Plymouth.
Tiffany, who works at a working men’s club, shared fond memories of her with her own daughter, and praised Bobbi-Anne’s gift for art.
She said: “I used to say to her, you should get into tattooing or something. I believe she wanted to get into interior design.”
On Thursday hundreds of people gathered for a candlelit vigil near the spot where Bobbi-Anne was last seen. And community campaigner Charlotte Holloway said that as well as local people being heartbroken there was a “lot of anger” that yet another women had been killed.
Tiffany, who is now too scared to let her kids out on their own said: “Women shouldn’t feel they are not protected walking through streets.”
Meanwhile Plymouth council leader Nick Kelly issued a grovelling apology for saying after BobbiAnne’s death people “should not put themselves in a compromising position.”
Rock musician Cody Ackland, 24, has been charged with murder.
He is due in Truro crown court tomorrow.