Shannon Matthews'n (9v) tapaus

[ABC]

Vaikuttaa hyvin paljon samanlaiselta tapaukselta kuin Natascha Kampusch.

[Harriet Makepeace]

Aikamoinen ilouutinen tosiaan:D että Shannon on löytynyt elossa ja suht hyvässä kunnossa, eihän tälläistä uskalla aina edes toivoa.Tämä on taas yksi esimerkki brittipoliisin ammatitaidosta ja loistavasta työstä. Kyseessä oli massiivinen operaatio, yhteensä 3000 asuntoon tehtiin etsintöja.

Sieppaaja on ollut tytön isäpuolen eno, ja tunnettu sekä nimellä Mick Donovan että Paul Drake. Shannon on tällä hetkellä sosiaaliviranomaisten suojissa ja poliisi haastattelee häntä.
Eilen on haastateltu myös tytön äitiä ja isäpuolta, heidän osallisuuttaan ei ole ilmeisesti suljettu pois.

Kartta paikasta josta Shannon löydettiin.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 298221.stm

Lapsia kyseisellä äidillä näyttää olevan yhteensä viidelle miehelle. Kieltämättä nainen saattaa olla hieman vastuuton, lapsilla isäpuolet vaihtuvatkin aika tiuhaan tahtiin.Toivottavasti sosiaaliviranomaiset arvioivat nyt vähän paremmin perheen tilannetta.

Sharon löydettiin vuoteen laatikosta.Sieppaja oli itse mennyt piiloon vuoteen toiseen laatikkoon. Sieppaajan talo sijaitsi noin 1,5 km päässä Sharonin kotitalosta.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... =1770&ct=5

Sieppaajasta kertovat naapurit sen verran, että hän oli outo ja hiljanen, eikä hän puhunut kenellekään paljon mitään. Hän oli ilmeisesti työtön ja viihtyi enimmäkseen yksin kotonaan. Hän oli asunut yksin noin 7 vuotta. Hänellä itsellä oli 2 lasta, 'jotka otettiin häneltä pois viime vuonna' sanoo yksi naapureista.

[cicero]

luin juuri uusimmat uutiset eli äiti ei päässyt keskustelemaan shannonin kanssa kahden kesken vain valvotusti. Poliisi olettaa että shannonin kuulustelu tulee kestämään kauan...jotain tietoa poliisilla on ollut jo aiemmin koska eräs kadonneihin lapsiin erikoistunut järjestö oli myös saanut vihjeitä tytön olinpaikasta ja tapahtumista ja ilmoittanut niistä poliisille...tyttöä ei myöskään ole käytetty seksuaalisesti hyväksi.

ei myöskään ole lainkaan varmaa että tyttö menee takaisin äidin luokse asumaan.

[MissHolmes]

Sieppaajalla on itsellään jonkun naapurin lausunnon mukaan kaksi tytärtä:toinen saman ikäinen ja hieman saman näköinen kuin Shannon.

Ymmärtääkseni nämä lapset ovat päätyneet erossa äidilleen asumaan.
Voihan kyse olla ihan vain mielenhäiriöisestäihmisestä,jokalapsiansa kaivattuua, työttömänä, on 'kilahtanut'ja hankkinut itselleen ''menettämänsä tyttärensä takaisin''.

Aivan ihanaa, että löytyi!!!! Ja toivottavasti tosiaan ei ole kyse mistään pedofilitapauksesta.

[cicero]

tyttöä ei ole kuulemma käytetty seksuaalisesti hyväksi...poliisi on lähinnä kiinnostunut siitä miten shannon päätyi tuon miehen luokse...aika erikoista että sattui samana päivänä kun shannon ei uskaltanut mennä kotiin takaisin...olisiko pyytänyt itse turvapaikkaa vai onko hänelle ollut tarkoitus tehdä jotain? shannonin äiti vastaanotti noin viikko sitten 60 000 puntaa etsintärahoja sun-lehdeltä...karhuaakohan lehti rahoja takaisin

[EuroJR]

Daily Mail: (sorry kiireen vuoksi postaan englanniksi tämän)
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YESTERDAY, the 'Welcome Back' banners replaced the ones which, for more than three weeks, have carried the desperate plea: 'Find Shannon.' But with the revelation that 39- year-old Paul Drake, arrested on suspicion of abduction, is the uncle of Shannon's stepfather, Craig Meehan, will it be the happy ending everyone desperately wants? The connection to Craig will no doubt further sour relations within a family which has completely fractured since Shannon's disappearance. Indeed, Shannon's grandparents June and Gordon Matthews blame their daughter Karen, 32, and her partner, supermarket fishmonger Craig Meehan, 22, for the nine-year-old's terrifying ordeal.

They have disowned Karen who has seven children by five fathers and have questioned her parenting credentials. Additionally, they have made sensational allegations that Shannon was so frightened of Craig, who she claimed hit her, that she ran away.

Indeed, the complicated, unconventional and many would say utterly dysfunctional family life of Shannon Matthews is almost more complex than the massive police inquiry.

It even reached the point where family members were asked by police not to say anything further about each other because it might hamper an already difficult investigation.

This week, Craig Meehan issued fierce denials that he'd hit Shannon, after the girl's 64-yearold grandmother claimed: 'We have never seen him beat Shannon with our own eyes, but the kids have said it's happened.

'Me and Gordon went up there on a Sunday before Christmas to give Karen some money for gas. Karen wasn't in, but Craig was. One of the children was on the stairs, holding their stomach and crying. I asked what had happened and the child said: "Craig, punch, punch, punch." 'I told Karen these kids have an awful life, but she just accuses me of interfering. Another of the children also said Craig had hit them.

'Shannon was frightened of him, too. I've been round before when Shannon was at the top of the stairs, shivering. She had been sent upstairs with no dinner. When I asked Karen what was going on, she told me Craig was punishing her.' Mrs Matthews also claimed that on the day Shannon went missing Karen turned up at their house with a black eye. 'She said she'd had an argument with Craig. It was clear she was upset. She told me she'd had a fall, but I knew there was more to it. She'd been rowing with Craig that morning.

'Karen was a great mum before she took Craig in. Since he arrived, they've had a terrible life, but Karen accuses me of interfering. Shannon was too scared to go home that night.' Shannon's uncle Martin Matthews, 42, further claimed that on the night before she disappeared, Shannon pleaded to stay with him because she was too frightened to go home, because she'd sworn at Craig during an argument and been grounded.

Martin said: 'She's been round here on many occasions saying the same thing: crying, saying she doesn't want to go home, saying: "I hate living there." She's showed me bruises on her arms and said Craig had lashed out at her. He does lash out.

'I told her she really shouldn't stay and she should go home, especially if she was grounded, and asked Tyler, my ten-year-old daughter, to walk her home. When Tyler got back, she said Shannon had cried all the way.' 'My two kids saw Shannon the next morning.

They told me she'd had an argument with her mum and that Karen had screamed at her to get out of the house and not come back.' Martin said he bitterly regretted sending Shannon home.

This week, the Mail went back to Shannon's grandfather Gordon Matthews, who said he and his wife stood by everything they'd said earlier. He added: 'As far as me and my wife are concerned, we never want to see any of them again. Craig is bad news and he's never done our family any good.

'I now consider them to be completely disowned and I want nothing more to do with them. If my daughter is going to turn a blind eye to what he is like, then that goes for her, too.' Craig Meehan has vehemently denied the accusations against him.

'I've been with Karen for four years. I have never hit her or any of the children. I love those kids. June is lying because she doesn't like me.

No one in Shannon's family likes me.

I don't know why.' Karen, too, has branded the allegations as 'rubbish', saying that Shannon loved her stepfather, cuddling up to him as they watched TV together and enjoying tickle fights.

'The family don't feel safe any more,' she said. 'It has broken my family apart. It makes me think I can't trust the people who are really close to me any more. Her brother's crying. Her sister's crying.

Half the time I cry myself to sleep.

Her step-dad Craig cries himself to sleep.' There are many in the community who have been horrified at the accusations and finger-pointing, leaping to Karen and Craig's defence and comforting them when they feared the worst.

Karen's cousin Susan Howgate, 39, told me: 'I have known Craig for six or seven years and he is the kindest, gentlest person. He loves kids and he would never, ever hurt anyone.

Karen is a brilliant mum and loves her children 100 per cent.

'Shannon is a very shy, quiet girl, but she wasn't unhappy at home. She was just one of those kids who is quite happy with her own company.

She liked to play on the computer, doing painting. I always used to tease her because she used to wear clothes in clashing colours.' Another close friend of Karen said

Shannon adored her mother and had dedicated a school project on the subject 'Thanks' to Karen. She wrote: 'I love my mum because she does nice things with me.' This community is the setting in which Karen Matthews, who has never married, grew up and while the word 'feckless' has cropped up repeatedly in various media reports, she is undoubtedly popular with many residents in the close-knit neighbourhood, who believe she and Craig deserve public sympathy.

Karen was 20 when she gave birth to her eldest child Tony, now aged almost 12. His father is unknown, and his grandparents claim the boy has run away from home at least four times because he doesn't get on with Craig.

When Tony was a baby, Karen started a relationship with Leon Rose, 29, the father of Shannon, nine, and her brother Ian, ten. Karen and Leon split up when Shannon was less than two years old and Leon now lives with a new partner ten miles away in Huddersfield.

When Shannon went missing, he stood side by side with Craig Meehan when the family marched through Dewsbury on the threeweek anniversary of her disappearance.

Leaping to Craig's defence, he said his daughter never once complained about her stepfather when he saw her at weekends describing him as a 'decent bloke'.

However, Shannon's true feelings may have been summed up by the scribble police found on her bedroom wall 'I want to live with my dad' a sentiment her mother Karen was quick to dismiss as the result of an insignificant argument.

Certainly, Shannon didn't see much of her father when she was young. Leon has admitted there were problems with the family from time to time which stopped him from seeing the daughter he loves, though he declined to elaborate.

After Karen and Leon split up, she started a relationship with Paul Hooker, father of her seven-year-old son Daniel. He lives with his father, just as Shannon's older brother Ian lives with Leon.

Again, that relationship lasted less than two years, and after Karen separated from Paul, she took up with a man named William Marshall.

In January 2002, Karen gave birth to their daughter Kelly, now six, who is also believed to live with her father.

Karen's youngest son, Cameron, five the identity of his father remains a mystery lives with Karen and her partner Craig, with whom Karen has yet another child, two-year-old Courtney.

It is a truly dizzying litany of successive pregnancies and failed relationships. Indeed, the four years she has spent with Craig Meehan who is ten years her junior represent her longest 'partnership'.
Facing the worst: Shannon Matthews's father Leon Rose, her mother Karen and step-father Craig Meehan

[dark attraction]

Daily Mail: (sorry kiireen vuoksi postaan englanniksi tämän)
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YESTERDAY, the 'Welcome Back' banners replaced the ones which, for more than three weeks, have carried the desperate plea: 'Find Shannon.' But with the revelation that 39- year-old Paul Drake, arrested on suspicion of abduction, is the uncle of Shannon's stepfather, Craig Meehan, will it be the happy ending everyone desperately wants? The connection to Craig will no doubt further sour relations within a family which has completely fractured since Shannon's disappearance. Indeed, Shannon's grandparents June and Gordon Matthews blame their daughter Karen, 32, and her partner, supermarket fishmonger Craig Meehan, 22, for the nine-year-old's terrifying ordeal.

They have disowned Karen who has seven children by five fathers and have questioned her parenting credentials. Additionally, they have made sensational allegations that Shannon was so frightened of Craig, who she claimed hit her, that she ran away.

Indeed, the complicated, unconventional and many would say utterly dysfunctional family life of Shannon Matthews is almost more complex than the massive police inquiry.

It even reached the point where family members were asked by police not to say anything further about each other because it might hamper an already difficult investigation.

This week, Craig Meehan issued fierce denials that he'd hit Shannon, after the girl's 64-yearold grandmother claimed: 'We have never seen him beat Shannon with our own eyes, but the kids have said it's happened.

'Me and Gordon went up there on a Sunday before Christmas to give Karen some money for gas. Karen wasn't in, but Craig was. One of the children was on the stairs, holding their stomach and crying. I asked what had happened and the child said: "Craig, punch, punch, punch." 'I told Karen these kids have an awful life, but she just accuses me of interfering. Another of the children also said Craig had hit them.

'Shannon was frightened of him, too. I've been round before when Shannon was at the top of the stairs, shivering. She had been sent upstairs with no dinner. When I asked Karen what was going on, she told me Craig was punishing her.' Mrs Matthews also claimed that on the day Shannon went missing Karen turned up at their house with a black eye. 'She said she'd had an argument with Craig. It was clear she was upset. She told me she'd had a fall, but I knew there was more to it. She'd been rowing with Craig that morning.

'Karen was a great mum before she took Craig in. Since he arrived, they've had a terrible life, but Karen accuses me of interfering. Shannon was too scared to go home that night.' Shannon's uncle Martin Matthews, 42, further claimed that on the night before she disappeared, Shannon pleaded to stay with him because she was too frightened to go home, because she'd sworn at Craig during an argument and been grounded.

Martin said: 'She's been round here on many occasions saying the same thing: crying, saying she doesn't want to go home, saying: "I hate living there." She's showed me bruises on her arms and said Craig had lashed out at her. He does lash out.

'I told her she really shouldn't stay and she should go home, especially if she was grounded, and asked Tyler, my ten-year-old daughter, to walk her home. When Tyler got back, she said Shannon had cried all the way.' 'My two kids saw Shannon the next morning.

They told me she'd had an argument with her mum and that Karen had screamed at her to get out of the house and not come back.' Martin said he bitterly regretted sending Shannon home.

This week, the Mail went back to Shannon's grandfather Gordon Matthews, who said he and his wife stood by everything they'd said earlier. He added: 'As far as me and my wife are concerned, we never want to see any of them again. Craig is bad news and he's never done our family any good.

'I now consider them to be completely disowned and I want nothing more to do with them. If my daughter is going to turn a blind eye to what he is like, then that goes for her, too.' Craig Meehan has vehemently denied the accusations against him.

'I've been with Karen for four years. I have never hit her or any of the children. I love those kids. June is lying because she doesn't like me.

No one in Shannon's family likes me.

I don't know why.' Karen, too, has branded the allegations as 'rubbish', saying that Shannon loved her stepfather, cuddling up to him as they watched TV together and enjoying tickle fights.

'The family don't feel safe any more,' she said. 'It has broken my family apart. It makes me think I can't trust the people who are really close to me any more. Her brother's crying. Her sister's crying.

Half the time I cry myself to sleep.

Her step-dad Craig cries himself to sleep.' There are many in the community who have been horrified at the accusations and finger-pointing, leaping to Karen and Craig's defence and comforting them when they feared the worst.

Karen's cousin Susan Howgate, 39, told me: 'I have known Craig for six or seven years and he is the kindest, gentlest person. He loves kids and he would never, ever hurt anyone.

Karen is a brilliant mum and loves her children 100 per cent.

'Shannon is a very shy, quiet girl, but she wasn't unhappy at home. She was just one of those kids who is quite happy with her own company.

She liked to play on the computer, doing painting. I always used to tease her because she used to wear clothes in clashing colours.' Another close friend of Karen said

Shannon adored her mother and had dedicated a school project on the subject 'Thanks' to Karen. She wrote: 'I love my mum because she does nice things with me.' This community is the setting in which Karen Matthews, who has never married, grew up and while the word 'feckless' has cropped up repeatedly in various media reports, she is undoubtedly popular with many residents in the close-knit neighbourhood, who believe she and Craig deserve public sympathy.

Karen was 20 when she gave birth to her eldest child Tony, now aged almost 12. His father is unknown, and his grandparents claim the boy has run away from home at least four times because he doesn't get on with Craig.

When Tony was a baby, Karen started a relationship with Leon Rose, 29, the father of Shannon, nine, and her brother Ian, ten. Karen and Leon split up when Shannon was less than two years old and Leon now lives with a new partner ten miles away in Huddersfield.

When Shannon went missing, he stood side by side with Craig Meehan when the family marched through Dewsbury on the threeweek anniversary of her disappearance.

Leaping to Craig's defence, he said his daughter never once complained about her stepfather when he saw her at weekends describing him as a 'decent bloke'.

However, Shannon's true feelings may have been summed up by the scribble police found on her bedroom wall 'I want to live with my dad' a sentiment her mother Karen was quick to dismiss as the result of an insignificant argument.

Certainly, Shannon didn't see much of her father when she was young. Leon has admitted there were problems with the family from time to time which stopped him from seeing the daughter he loves, though he declined to elaborate.

After Karen and Leon split up, she started a relationship with Paul Hooker, father of her seven-year-old son Daniel. He lives with his father, just as Shannon's older brother Ian lives with Leon.

Again, that relationship lasted less than two years, and after Karen separated from Paul, she took up with a man named William Marshall.

In January 2002, Karen gave birth to their daughter Kelly, now six, who is also believed to live with her father.

Karen's youngest son, Cameron, five the identity of his father remains a mystery lives with Karen and her partner Craig, with whom Karen has yet another child, two-year-old Courtney.

It is a truly dizzying litany of successive pregnancies and failed relationships. Indeed, the four years she has spent with Craig Meehan who is ten years her junior represent her longest 'partnership'.
Facing the worst: Shannon Matthews's father Leon Rose, her mother Karen and step-father Craig Meehan

Oh dear God, what a mess...

Toivottavasti Shannon pääsee asumaan ympäristöön, jossa itse haluaa olla ja missä hän on turvassa.

[tre_1982]

Sieppaaja on ollut tytön isäpuolen eno, ja tunnettu sekä nimellä Mick Donovan että Paul Drake. Shannon on tällä hetkellä sosiaaliviranomaisten suojissa ja poliisi haastattelee häntä.
Eilen on haastateltu myös tytön äitiä ja isäpuolta, heidän osallisuuttaan ei ole ilmeisesti suljettu pois.

Tytön isäpuolen eno, siis tämän Graig Meehanin?
Jos kaverilla on kilahtanut, niin ehkä hän on vain halunnut "auttaa" tyttöä. Mutta toisaalta... Noh, kai tuo selviää... Onneksi tyttö on sentään hengissä, mikä on suoranainen ihme mielestäni noinkin pitkän kadoksissaolon jälkeen!

Onkohan noi sänkylaatikot ihan suunnitelmallisesti tehty piiloutumista varten vai kuin..?

[EuroJR]

Miestä arviotaessa, riittää aika pitkälle perusteiksi se, että vaihtoi nimesä laulaja Jason Donovanin innoittamana!

[Harriet Makepeace]

Epäilty poistuu oikeudesta. Naapurit kertoivat aikaisemmin että pidätyksen yhteydessä epäilty pani kovasti hanttiin, poliisit joutuivat raahamaan hänet autoonsa. Epäilty on kärsinyt masennuksesta, hän on saanut valtiolta työkyvyttömyyskorvauksia mielentilansa vuoksi. Epäilty on siepannut aikaisemmin omat lapset ex-vaimoltaan jolloin piilotti heitä hotellihuoneessa Blackpoolissa 3 päivää, jonka vuoksi hän istui 3 viikkoa linnassa. Donovanin ex-vaimo pitää häntä pervona ja sairaana henkilönä, joka on kiinnostunut lapsista 'sairaalla tavalla'.

In claims made in the News of the World, his former wife Sue Bird said he had put graphic sex notes in his own daughter's lunch box and had been barred from seeing his 12 and 10-year-old daughters but had snatched them from council care and hidden the girls in Blackpool for three days. The 37-year-old told the paper she had endured seven years of beatings with Donovan and said he had an unhealthy interest in children, particularly their eldest daughter.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... =1770&ct=5

Poliisi on saanut myös kovaa kritiikkia niskaansa, paikallinen MEP (kansanedustaja) on moittinut poliisia hitaasta toiminnasta.
Yhteensä noin 6000 henkilöä haastatteltiin tapauksen yhteydessä. Tyttöä ei ole palautettu äidille ja Karen Matthhews sanoo ymmärtävänsä tämän.
Poliisi haastattele tyttöä, hänen nuoren iän ja tilansa vuoksi maksimissa 10-15 minuuttia kerrallaan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 301208.stm

Poliisi ilmoitti tänään että he ovat hyvin huolissaan siitä miten sieppaaja on kohdellut Shannonia.
Lääkäritarkastuksen tuloksia ei ole julkistettu.Poliisi on ottanut Shannonin äidiltä ja isäpuolelta DNA näytteet.
Poliisilla ei ole mitään todisteita siitä että joku perheenjäsenistä olisi osallistunut sieppaukseen.
Poliisi myös tyrmää teorian, jonka mukaan Shannonin katoaminen olisi ollut huijausyritys lahjoituksien saamiseksi.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... =1770&ct=5

[Harriet Makepeace]

39- vuotias Michael Donovan (ent. Paul Drake)on saanut syytteet lapsen sieppauksesta ja vapaudenriistosta. Hän astuu oikeuden eteen myöhemmin tänään.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,, ... 50,00.html

[cicero]

tänään luin että vanhempien osuutta ei ole poissuljettu. ( esim.daily mail) eikä poliisi ole palauttamassa shannonia äidilleen ainakaan vielä.

Sukulaiset saattavat tehdä vetoomuksen (isovanhemmat ovat tehneet jo) että shannonia ei luovuteta takaisin äidilleen. osa äidin lapsista näyttääkin asuvan isiensä luona (sen mukaan kun isä on tiedossa) Poliisin täytyykin odottaa päiviä jotta shannonin todellinen mielentila selviää ja jotta saavat kaikki palaset kohdalleen, ilmeisesti nimenomaan tuossa kohtaa miten shannon on ajutunut tuonne asuntoon on jotain epäselvyyksiä tai epäjohdonmukaisuuksia

[EuroJR]

The 10 unanswered questions

1) Why was Shannon heard laughing while she was missing?

2) Why did it take so long to raise the alarm?

3) How did Shannon get the clothes she was in when rescued?

4) Where is her swimming costume?

5) Why was a neighbour's sighting of Shannon in Lidgate Gardens not investigated sooner by police?

6) Why did more than 300 officers take so long to find Shannon?

7) Was Shannon's mother Karen in Lidgate Gardens on the day Shannon went missing?

8) Were vital clues ignored?

9) Did the man suspected of abducting Shannon communicate with her family or friends?

10) Did Shannon phone home while she was missing?

Sunday Express

[cicero]

aika hyviä kysymyksiä kyllä....

[EuroJR]

The People
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TV:stä tutun selvänäkijän kolme ennustusta Shannonin tapauksesta ovat osoittautuneet todeksi.

Kuusi päivää ENNEN 9-vuotiaan löytymistä Joe Power kertoi vinkkejä, jotka saattaisivat osoittautua hyödylliseksi Shannonin tapauksessa.

Joe kertoi:

- Shannon tuntee sieppaajansa ja tämä sieppaaja kuuluu sukuun. Hänen etunimensä on Michael tai Paul.

- Tyttö istui Paul-nimisen miehen polvella hautajaisissa.

- Batleyn area liittyy katoamiseen.

Mick Donovan, Shannonin isäpuolen eno, tunnetaan myös nimellä Paul Drake.

Todistajat ovat kertoneet, kuinka Mick hyppyytteli Shannonia polvellaan, kuusi viikkoa ennen katoamista.

Shannon löytöpaikka oli BATLEY Carr, Dewsbury.

The People kertoi viime viikolla, kuinka Joe kertoi ennustuksestaan Batelysta Shannonin äidille Karenille. Hän myös kertoi, kuinka tyttö olisi noussut autoon koulun lähellä.

Joe - joka auttoi poliisia myös Sally Anne Bowmanin murhatapauksen selvitämisessä - kertoi Karenille mietteistään koskettaessaan Shannonin mielivaatetta, Bratzin toppia. Hän kertoi: "Esiin tulee nimi Bat, tai Batley."

"Näen jonkun läheisen olevan tässä mukana. Olen melko varma, että tunnet tämän henkilön."

"Näen nimen Paul, Paula... näen myös Shannonin"

"Hän istui Paul-nimisen polvella ja he olivat hautajaisissa. Tyttö tunsi tämän henkilön. Hän oli perhetuttu."

Joe jatkaa: "Olen niin helpottunut, että Shannon löytyi ja on kunnossa. Toivottavasti Poliisi kuuntelee minua ensi kerralla."