Thank you for the update. I am relieved to hear that the body was not Kerry’s.

I will keep her in my prayers.

Cheers

We did not mention Mark’s name anywhere – I’m not sure how the press got hold of his name…. We did not want to interfere with any police investigations, etc, therefore never mentioned his name on the facebook page.

Neither of them are Muslim. Kerry is a Christian – as for Mark… I don’t know.

As for being in a Muslim country….They both worked there and lived there for a number of years. I’m not sure why Mark went there (apparently to get away from running up his debts per the press), but Kerry went there because she loved Dubai, she felt safe there and was happy in her job. They met in Dubai.

I apologise if I came across a bit strong… I now understand that your intent was to highlight flaws in media reporting. Please understand that our emotions are running high at this point in time and under other circumstances, your comments probably wouldn’t have caused such a response.

Also, just to clarify – Based on the fact that we have not found a body, and based on Mark’s statement (whether its true or not is a different story altogether!), we still believe that she could be alive somewhere.

First of all, let me say that I am sorry about your loss.

Secondly, Thank you for clarifying.

Had the media done its JOB, you wouldn’t be explaining this and I wouldn’t have to read into the article.

Re-read my comments.

The attack was on the way the media reported the incident.

And, forced to dig for clues into the the who’s and why’s of the article, your Facebook statement only leads one astray.

Also, if you had just put Mark Arnold’s name on Facebook, we wouldn’t be having this conversation and I wouldn’t have lost my bet, now would I? Nor, would you have needed to put your multicultural peace and love statement on Facebook which leads others astray

Now, please answer me this:

What were they doing in a Muslim country and why did Mark Arnold return to “the Muslim” country? Are they Muslim?

Those questions should have been explained by the article.

But, be that as it may, I am sorry if I have caused you any angst. That was not my intent. My intent was to highlight the media’s propensity to give insufficient details in its coverage of incidences like these.

Peace

Secondly, the family felt that we needed to affirm that this was in no way meant to insult or attack Arabs, or any other culture for that matter. This incident did not involve any Arabs…..its just unfortunate that it happened in an Arab country. This was the ONLY reason for stating this on facebook, as we knew who the suspect was all along! We actually have muslim family members, so the comment shouldn’t be ‘VERY interesting….’ We have nothing against Arabs. We do however, have something against people who are quick to comment, but don’t have all the facts!!

All your comments show is your own discrimination of others!

Under other circumstances, i’d perhaps see where you were coming from, but in this instance, you’re just being ignorant. And uselessly provocative. Apparently, nice Anglo Saxon Mr. Arnold couldn’t handle the fact that Ms Winter wanted breathing space. He’d been stalking her for a while. On Aug 20, he followed her home from a bar in hotel Mina Seyahi, and assaulted her with a bat. He still claims to have left her alive – but the police think otherwise due to the massive amount of blood on the stairs where Kerry was assaulted.