Unless there's verification from elsewhere, I'd treat it as a rumour. The Mail sometimes runs reliable stories, but not always. It also tends to be very far to the right, so much so that when one was delivered to us instead of our usual Guardian, my husband picked it up very gingerly by one corner, barely touching his flesh to it.
In trying to verify the article, I just googled William "Forest" McQueen and found this BBC report, which mentions such a Mr. McQueen of Abitas Springs, who is married to a British woman. Interesting how the Mail article says nothing about that. How many William "Forest" McQueens might there be in Abitas Springs?
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Date: 2005-09-13 07:48 pm (UTC)In trying to verify the article, I just googled William "Forest" McQueen and found this BBC report, which mentions such a Mr. McQueen of Abitas Springs, who is married to a British woman. Interesting how the Mail article says nothing about that. How many William "Forest" McQueens might there be in Abitas Springs?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4220656.stm That was from the 6th. The next day, the Telegraph, which is a conservative paper in terms of politics but is far more reliable in terms of reporting, also mentions Williams Forest McQueen of Abita Springs being missing. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/07/wkat107.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/09/07/ixnewstop.html
The Mirror ran a similar story to that in the Mail. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15958322&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=hurricane-doc-admits--we-had-to-kill-our-patients--name_page.html
Again, however, the Mirror is a tabloid. Although more to the left in its politics, it isn't necessarily reliable. I'm noting that it's only the tabloids running this story right now, which I find interesting. Okay, I've also found it in an Australian paper (the Telegraph -- not to be confused with the one in the UK), but I don't know its reputation.