20 years on: A memorial for Charlene Downes

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On the 20th anniversary of her disappearance, friends and family of Charlene Downes hold a memorial in her hometown of Blackpool, and Lancashire Police make a new appeal for information

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00:00 On a cold evening on November the 1st 2003, a 14 year old schoolgirl said goodbye to her

00:11 sister on Blackpool Pier, went off to the arcades and was never seen again.

00:18 The amount of failings by all the people that were meant to actually protect Charlene, everybody

00:25 just failed.

00:26 It's not something I'll ever get over until she's found, until I've got some answers.

00:32 But then I'd love to go and literally let them take the law into my own hands.

00:35 If they took my daughter, I could take them.

00:39 The PC, sorry, **** that gets in the way of protecting our children is diabolical.

00:47 I feel as though I know what's happened to Charlene Downs but it's not something that

00:50 I could verbalise or broadcast.

00:54 To grind a body through a mincer and not leave any DNA anywhere is near on impossible.

01:03 Obviously I'd like to see a resolution to this case, you know, but as to whether there

01:08 will be, I'm not sure.

01:12 Who knows?

01:14 Maybe she is out there.

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