The Missing_ Each Year, 275,000 Britons Disappear - Home News, UK - The Independent

8/14/2019 The Missing_ Each Year, 275,000 Britons Disappear - Home News, UK - The Independent

1/10

JUSTIN SUTCLI

A wall of photographs of some of the

many missing persons recorded since

1992

Robert Fisk: Obama, man of peace? No, just a Nobel prize of a mistake

The missing

The missing: Each year, 275,000 BritonsdisappearThe number of people vanishing is at record levels, with the recession a key factor. Many soon

eturn, but who helps the agonised families of those who stay away?

By David Randall and Greg Walton

Sunday, 11 October 2009

Share

Print

Email

Text Size

Normal

Large

Extra Large

SPONSORED LINKS:

Ads by Google
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-missing-each-year-275000-britons-disappear-1801010.html?action=Popuphttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-missing-each-year-275000-britons-disappear-1801010.html?action=Popuphttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-missing-each-year-275000-britons-disappear-1801010.html?action=Popuphttp://www.independent.co.uk/clickthrough.do?action=emailed&artId=1801010http://license.icopyright.net/g2/3.7463?icx_id=news/uk/home-news/the-missing-each-year-275000-britons-disappear-1801010.html?service=PrintICopyrighthttps://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/request.py?contact=abg_afc&url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-missing-each-year-275000-britons-disappear-1801010.html&hl=en&client=ca-pub-5964551156905038&adU=NeighborhoodScan.com&adT=Free+Sex+Offender+Report&adU=OnlineMBA.NEU.Edu&adT=NEU+Online+MBA+Program&gl=UShttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-missing-each-year-275000-britons-disappear-1801010.html#font-xlargehttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-missing-each-year-275000-britons-disappear-1801010.html#font-largehttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-missing-each-year-275000-britons-disappear-1801010.html#font-normalhttp://www.independent.co.uk/clickthrough.do?action=emailed&artId=1801010http://license.icopyright.net/g2/3.7463?icx_id=news/uk/home-news/the-missing-each-year-275000-britons-disappear-1801010.html?service=PrintICopyrighthttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-missing-each-year-275000-britons-disappear-1801010.html#http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-obama-man-of-peace-no-just-a-nobel-prize-of-a-mistake-1800928.htmlhttp://www.independent.co.uk/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-missing-each-year-275000-britons-disappear-1801010.html?action=Popup


2/10

Free Sex Offender Report

Where do Sex Offenders live in YourNeighborhood? Find out in 60 secs!

NeighborhoodScan.com

NEU Online MBA Program

Earn an MBA Online at NortheasternUniversity. No GMAT, Free Brochure.

OnlineMBA.NEU.Edu

Odd place, Britain. Every day, 13 million CCTV cameras track our movements. We're PIN-number

databased, credit-rated, nannied, Neighbourhood Watched, Facebooked, emailed and GPS-ed. Yo

wouldn't think any of us could slip away unnoticed. But we do, in ever-increasing quantities. An

ndependent on Sunday investigation has established that the numbers of Britons who disappear

each year is now at record levels.

Missing People, the charity that helps both the disappeared and those left behind, told us that

250,000 missing persons reports each year more than 30,000 higher than any previous total

probably an underestimate"; others put the total nearer 275,000. This, the equivalent of the ent

population of Plymouth being spirited away, means that, across the country, one person goes

missing every two minutes. The vast majority are swiftly found, or return of their own volition, bu

many don't. Some disappear for decades, and sources, including some inside the police, say the

number of people in Britain who have been missing from family, friends and usual haunts for mor

han a year is at least 16,000 and could be as many as 20,000.

Among them are people like Melanie Hall, last seen in a Bathclub nightclub in 1996, whose parent

had to endure 13 years of waiting and wondering before her remains were found, a week ago,

beside the M5. She had been murdered. Nor does death always bring closure. At any one time,

here are an estimated 1,000 unidentified bodies lying in the country's mortuaries and hospitals.

Many have been there for years unknown, unclaimed citizens.

Related articles

More UK News

The long-term missing inhabit a looking-over-their-shoulder world of false names, cash-in-hand

obs, hostels and short lets. For their families, they leave behind not only trauma, grief, guilt, ang

and despair, but also, if they are breadwinners, more practical problems. Missing people are

deemed neither dead nor properly alive, so salaries are stopped, insurance companies won't pay

out, bills can't be paid and corporate "helplines" won't discuss the disappeared's affairs because o

he Data Protection Act. But, most of all, the long-term missing leave behind an aching sense of

mystery: what has become of them, and why did they go?

This is the story of Britain's long-term disappeared of people such as Joyce Wells, Alan Hobbs a

anet Cowley; of those as young as seven-year-old Daniel Entwhistle, missing from his Great

Yarmouth home since May 2003, or as elderly as 88-year-old Mary Ferns, missing from West

Lothian for 16 months now. All an agonising riddle. Why did the Gloucester librarian Angela Bradl
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=l&ai=BRk72B2DSSoamCaO0qQPG4ZWHCfDkzIgB7qrkuw7UusiYE_DCoAEQAhgCIN3qsRQoAjgAUMbqrNUEYMmG_4fwo-wSoAGg9er0A7IBFXd3dy5pbmRlcGVuZGVudC5jby51a7oBCTcyOHg5MF9qc8gBAdoBamh0dHA6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvbmV3cy91ay9ob21lLW5ld3MvdGhlLW1pc3NpbmctZWFjaC15ZWFyLTI3NTAwMC1icml0b25zLWRpc2FwcGVhci0xODAxMDEwLmh0bWyAAgHAAgHIArSxigeoAwHoA6YB6AMQ6AMO9QMAAAAE9QMgAAAA&num=2&sig=AGiWqtxYEtgdk1D5f5gYCjSy0-RzfcueWg&client=ca-pub-5964551156905038&adurl=http://onlinemba.neu.edu/mba-ncsf/http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=l&ai=BRk72B2DSSoamCaO0qQPG4ZWHCfDkzIgB7qrkuw7UusiYE_DCoAEQAhgCIN3qsRQoAjgAUMbqrNUEYMmG_4fwo-wSoAGg9er0A7IBFXd3dy5pbmRlcGVuZGVudC5jby51a7oBCTcyOHg5MF9qc8gBAdoBamh0dHA6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvbmV3cy91ay9ob21lLW5ld3MvdGhlLW1pc3NpbmctZWFjaC15ZWFyLTI3NTAwMC1icml0b25zLWRpc2FwcGVhci0xODAxMDEwLmh0bWyAAgHAAgHIArSxigeoAwHoA6YB6AMQ6AMO9QMAAAAE9QMgAAAA&num=2&sig=AGiWqtxYEtgdk1D5f5gYCjSy0-RzfcueWg&client=ca-pub-5964551156905038&adurl=http://onlinemba.neu.edu/mba-ncsf/http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=l&ai=B_tPvB2DSSoamCaO0qQPG4ZWHCb-q2X6fjM6fC8CNtwHwkwkQARgBIN3qsRQoAjgAUJDS3_0FYMmG_4fwo-wSsgEVd3d3LmluZGVwZW5kZW50LmNvLnVrugEJNzI4eDkwX2pzyAEB2gFqaHR0cDovL3d3dy5pbmRlcGVuZGVudC5jby51ay9uZXdzL3VrL2hvbWUtbmV3cy90aGUtbWlzc2luZy1lYWNoLXllYXItMjc1MDAwLWJyaXRvbnMtZGlzYXBwZWFyLTE4MDEwMTAuaHRtbMgCq7H8CKgDAegDpgHoAxDoAw71AwAAAAT1AyAAAAA&num=1&sig=AGiWqtz3Sz4R4Dwak8sRUViwGkjFnGvsCA&client=ca-pub-5964551156905038&adurl=https://www.neighborhoodscan.com/ppc/familysafety/index-GUSFSC2203.ashx%3Fgtse%3Dgoog%26gtkw%3DChild%2520Safety_tx_cm_br_ma%3Dgoogle%26site%3Dwww.independent.co.ukhttp://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=l&ai=B_tPvB2DSSoamCaO0qQPG4ZWHCb-q2X6fjM6fC8CNtwHwkwkQARgBIN3qsRQoAjgAUJDS3_0FYMmG_4fwo-wSsgEVd3d3LmluZGVwZW5kZW50LmNvLnVrugEJNzI4eDkwX2pzyAEB2gFqaHR0cDovL3d3dy5pbmRlcGVuZGVudC5jby51ay9uZXdzL3VrL2hvbWUtbmV3cy90aGUtbWlzc2luZy1lYWNoLXllYXItMjc1MDAwLWJyaXRvbnMtZGlzYXBwZWFyLTE4MDEwMTAuaHRtbMgCq7H8CKgDAegDpgHoAxDoAw71AwAAAAT1AyAAAAA&num=1&sig=AGiWqtz3Sz4R4Dwak8sRUViwGkjFnGvsCA&client=ca-pub-5964551156905038&adurl=https://www.neighborhoodscan.com/ppc/familysafety/index-GUSFSC2203.ashx%3Fgtse%3Dgoog%26gtkw%3DChild%2520Safety_tx_cm_br_ma%3Dgoogle%26site%3Dwww.independent.co.uk


3/10

eave her spectacles in her car, the keys in the ignition, and walk away one January day in 1995?

What happened last November to Quentin Adams, a 40-year-old father of three from Banchory,

Aberdeenshire? He popped out to buy cigarettes and has not been seen since. And where on eart

s the 14-year-old Doncaster schoolboy Andrew Gosden?

Some 93 per cent of the children who go missing do not live in a two-parent household, and sing

children are more likely to run away than those with brothers and sisters. Andrew fell into neither

category, happily living, according to testimony from his caring family, with his mother, father an

elder sister, Charlie. He was doing well at school, and no one had noticed him behaving in any w

hat would set alarm bells ringing. And yet, one day two Septembers ago, he left for school, wait

or his parents to go to their work as speech therapists, returned to the house, changed his clothe

went to a cash machine, withdrew 200 of his savings, and boarded a train to London. We know

his because he was seen on CCTV arriving at King's Cross, a slight figure dressed in black jeans

and T-shirt. No one has seen him since. The despair, the not knowing, hit his father, Kevin, like a

ruck. He tried to commit suicide, hanging himself from the banisters, and his life was saved only

because the vicar who had a key to the house arrived at that moment.

The efforts to find Andrew could not have been greater. Police were swiftly alerted, as was MissinPeople and local media. His face is on the web, on posters, and on 15,000 leaflets that were

distributed in London by three coachloads of family, friends, schoolmates and teachers, who

ravelled to London and searched for him a year after his disappearance. His 14-year-old face

stares from a page on the Missing People website, increasingly a reminder of what he once was,

ather than an aid to recognising him now. The Andrew who left the house in his school uniform i

no longer the Andrew who might be found. So an age-progressed face will feature on a new leafle

o be emailed to snooker halls and, if permission is granted, to be handed out at a Muse gig, one

Andrew's favoured bands.

Back in Doncaster, his family keep his childish things, and the clothes that will no longer fit him, i

a room unchanged since that day in September 2007. They can still look and hope. What they

cannot do is grieve. Kevin Gosden told us: "We have all reacted differently in our house. It's bee

battle with depression for me. I haven't reached the point where I can give up there's always

another chance to find him. Sometimes it feels like we're going round and round in circles, like

we're trapped in a work by Escher."

Children make up the bulk of the missing persons reports in Britain. But, as teenagers who stay o

a night or two from their care or foster home, or who sleep on a friend's sofa to cool down after a

ow with a parent, they are also likely to be the cases that are resolved within a few days. Teena

unaways are overwhelmingly female: 71 per cent of missing 13- to 17-year-olds are girls. With

adults, it is different. Men predominate, with 73 per cent of all disappeared people over the age o

24 being male. Adult missing cases are also far less likely to be resolved quickly, or at all. A 2003

study found that only 20 per cent of missing adults traced by Missing People decided to return to

he place they had left, and 41 per cent of those located were not prepared to make contact with

hose who were looking for them. The conclusion is that they're fleeing something in their own

minds or in reality far more deep-seated than the cause of a teenager's tiff with Mum, Dad, a


4/10

step-parent or friends.

There have always been the elderly and confused, the alcoholics, drug addicts and obsessive lone

who drift out of contact, until the family, wishing to try again, finds there is no forwarding addres

And there will always be the utterly inexplicable disappearances people such as

Anne Simpson, a mother of 60, who went for a walk near her home in Ingoldmells, Lincolnshire, i

September 2004 and never returned.

But the most intriguing of the missing are those ordinary folk who have some discernible pressure

heir lives, but one which seems on the surface no worse than that experienced by the millions w

simply keep battling on. It might be job stress, money worries (the recession is a major cause of

ise in missings), or relationship breakdown. But what is it that tips them over some invisible edg

and compels them to make a sudden bolt for the door? And what is it like to be the family left

behind?

To find out, we sat down with Anne and Peter Langridge, sister and nephew of Bernard Coomber,

who went missing in January this year. His story contains many of the ingredients of other missin

cases. You could call it "A Very Average Disappearance".

Bernard was 55, unmarried, and lived alone in Sevenoaks, Kent. He was an outdoor person, who

often went walking and the job he liked best was landscape gardening. "That was his first love,"

says Anne, "but he had back problems, so he went into a factory that made parts for showers. H

worked for an agency that made him redundant; he was taken on again when the work picked up

hen they made him redundant again." By early this year, he had not worked for two years and

had totally run out of money". So she gave him 50.

One day in late January Anne was called by one of Bernard's neighbours. The woman could get neply at his house. Anne went round, let herself in, and found the house empty. On the kitchen ta

were laid out Bernard's mobile, and beside it was the 50 Anne had lent him. He was, she

explained, a proud man and hated accepting money.

He took nothing with him," says Anne. "Not a bank card, small change, not a rucksack or holdal

He just walked out with whatever he'd got on. His coats were still in the house. And it was a bitte

cold day."

t was, in a phrase used by so many families of the missing, "totally out of character". Peter says

He was a loner, really. He led a simple life, but he was quite a grounded sort of person." He was

however, "a bit down, having problems finding a job", says Peter. And, like many on benefits,

hings did not run smoothly. Anne says: "He had flu at Christmas and, because he didn't sign on

phone, they signed him off and he didn't get his money. So, within a month, there was no money

coming in ... he didn't get on with the man at the Jobcentre and wanted to be referred to another

one, but they wouldn't allow that." Bernard's last words to Anne were: "I've got myself in a mess

and I'll get myself out of it."


5/10

Like quite a few of the mature missing, Bernard had been a sort of carer, to his father, who died

seven years ago. "Bernard did have one girlfriend," says Anne, "but, sadly, my dad made that on

izzle out. He was frightened of being left on his own." Instead, with his money problems, bad ba

and a troublesome recent hernia operation, it was Bernard who was left on his own.

Kent Police have carried out extensive searches, traced all possible contacts, travelled to interview

Bernard's friends up north, talked to his doctor, publicised his details, and checked any bodies tha

have turned up. Appeals have appeared in local newspapers, on the net, in The Big Issue, and on

posters besides the paths where he used to walk. But nothing. Anne says: "My only feeling is tha

he may have taken his own life in the old quarry, where he knew he wouldn't be found, because h

wouldn't want to put me through the cost of a funeral. If he's taken his own life, he'll have put

himself somewhere we won't find him for a long time."

As soon as the leaves are off the trees, police will use a helicopter with thermal-imaging equipme

o see if any remains can be found in Bernard's favourite rural spots. Anne and Peter say that

Missing People (who call regularly), and the police, both the Kent force and the National Policing

mprovement Agency's missing persons bureau, "could not have done more".

The offices of the charity Missing People are the closest this country has to a nerve centre for the

disappeared. Above a supermarket on a busy west London street is an operation that looks like a

police incident room. Phones are constantly manned, and, on the wall, there are wipeboards with

sts of names, and when and where they were last seen. Missing People, founded 20 years ago in

he wake of the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh, who lived near by, runs three helplines for

young runaways, missing adults, and the families of the disappeared, all manned 24 hours a day.

They receive 120,000 calls a year. The chief executive, Martin Houghton-Brown, says they can

barely cope with the volume.

n the early hours of last Monday morning, for instance, the two volunteers had 30 calls in an hou

They included sightings, relatives making initial reports and the missing phoning in. A recent

sample: "James", 13, missing from care and sleeping rough on a park bench, angry and upset, w

agreed to be put in touch with a social worker; "Paula", a long-term disappeared who had

swallowed a large amount of paracetamol and drink, who eventually allowed Missing People to ca

an ambulance; "Adrian", 50, who had walked out on his wife, but wanted to let her know he was

safe; and "Aina", 24, from Bradford, whose parents had her booked on a flight that night to go to

orced marriage. She was frantic; Missing People put her in touch with organisations such as the

Asian Women's Domestic Helpline.

Mr Houghton-Brown and his policy and research director, Geoff Newiss, are clear about what nee

o be done to help Britain's missing and their families. First, a government department needs to

ake responsibility for the issue. Second, comprehensive information on the missing needs collatin

and analysing centrally (we are better at keeping tabs on missing cars than missing people,

according to Helen Southworth, Labour MP for Warrington South and a long-time campaigner for

he missing). Third, all agencies must have a duty to co-operate. And, fourth, underpinning all th

hese responsibilities need to be statutory. "It means resources," says Mr Houghton-Brown, "but


6/10

we're talking about people dying every day."

Adults, unless illegality is involved, have a perfect right to go missing, assume a new identity, an

ve out of contact with their former friends and family. (One man who disappeared told Missing

People when he was traced: "How dare you look for me!" and threatened to sue.) This has fed t

myth that the police regard any missing case which is not that of a child, or where a crime is

suspected, as beyond their remit. It may once have been true, but not now. In Bramshill,

Hampshire, the NPIA's missing persons bureau logs and helps investigate cases. And it is thanks,

part, to its work that families such as Bernard Coomber's testify to the lengths to which most for

go to find their lost loved one.

Down in Surrey, police still keep active Operation Scholar, the search for Ruth Wilson, a sixth-

ormer who went missing 14 years ago. She left Dorking just after 4pm on 27 November 1995, a

nstead of going home, took a taxi to an isolated pub on Box Hill. Intriguingly, she had ordered

lowers for her parents to be delivered two days later. More significantly, police later learned that

Ruth, the bookish-looking daughter of two teachers, was in the habit of going to the remote spot

he way home from school. (As an example of the almost limitless trials facing families of missing

persons, the Wilsons were asked if they were willing to appear on a game show where the audienwould vote on the best step the family could next take to try to get their daughter back. They

declined.)

Although Missing People uses a specialist in age-progressed likenesses to portray people missing

over the long term, there is a limit to what it, and the police, can do. So families hand out leaflet

put up posters, tramp the streets, offer rewards (10,000 is not an uncommon amount), hire

private investigators (an extensive search can cost more than 15,000), and even, as Kent Police

old us, consult mediums. They also start groups on Facebook, and launch websites such as the o

or Nicola Payne, who went off to collect clothes for her baby in December 1991, took a short cut

across fields, and has not been seen since. Among the poignant messages on the site is one from

her son Owen now 17, but just seven months old when his mother disappeared: "I envy my old

cousins who remember her well, and they tell me what a fun-loving girl she was... My one wish

would be to have my mum found and to be able to understand the confusion, mystery and

heartbreak of the past 17 years."

Some do return. About 10 disappeared persons a week are found through the work of Missing

People, among them Billy Andrews, who went missing from his family after his marriage broke up

He began sleeping rough, and defied all the efforts of his mother, Kathleen, and his four sisters to

ind him. Twelve years went by, and then Kathleen saw an advertisement for Missing People and

ang. Within four weeks, the charity's case managers had found him. Kathleen says: "One day I w

watching my favourite soap when the phone rang. It was Billy. We both wept." Billy says: "I was

happy when I got the phone call from Missing People telling me that my mum was trying to find

me. To be back in touch with her and my sisters after so long was a dream come true." So why

he lose touch? He felt he had let them down and was ashamed of the state he was in. He is now

settled, and has remarried. "It is," says Kathleen, "a second chance for all of us."


7/10

Thousands of Billies, Bernards, Ruths and Andrews will join the ranks of the long-term missing th

year. Maybe it isn't so curious that they can elude all the tabs kept on us, all of our petty nannyin

and risk assessments. We may have officials logging missing cars, we might microchip our dogs,

and indelibly mark our possessions, but we're awfully casual about lost humans. After all, in 2009

here is no government department responsible for listing and finding them. Odd place, Britain.

The trafficked girls: They all exhibit a vulnerable prettiness

Among the passport pictures of the disappeared staring out from the Missing People web pages asizeable number are of teenage girls of Far Eastern origin. Xia Wang, 17, has been missing from

Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, since November 2006; Qin Wang, 16, from Bournemouth since January

2007; Yan He, 17, from Worthing since July 2007; Dung Thi Nguyen, 17, from Catford since April

2007; Lihua Hi, 16, from Birmingham since June 2006. There are many others. Having been

brought to this country illegally, such girls whose only common characteristic, says Missing

People, is their region of origin and their vulnerable prettiness are warned by those who

ransported them to trust absolutely no one. They are taken into care, but, a short while later, ar

often seen getting into a car driven by an older male oriental. They have been trafficked.

Britain's unclaimed bodies: They lie refrigerated in Britain's mortuaries

Who was the man known as Mr Seagull, whose body was found on Chesil Beach, Dorset, in 2002?

Who was the white man aged between 30 and 40 killed at Canterbury by the London-bound train

October 2001? Who was the man whose badly burnt remains were found on Parley Common,

Dorset, when firefighters tackled a heathland blaze in August 2006? Their bodies, and hundreds

more, lie refrigerated in Britain's mortuaries, awaiting identification. One reason there are so man

s because there is no database of the DNA of missing people, which Dr Tim Clayton of the Foren

Science Service has described as "a national disgrace". And an investigation in Scotland by the D

Recordlast January found that police there have the DNA of just 34 of 450 long-term missing cas

on their books.

THE DISAPPEARED...

Kevin Fasting

Age at disappearance: 50

Last Seen: 21 November 2003, leaving his Merseyside home for work.

Background: The father of three called himself "the worst father in the world" in a note found afte

he went missing.

Laura Haines

Age at Disappearance: 30

Last Seen: At her home in Bristol on 23 February 1997.


8/10

Background: Laura left two daughters behind. Investigators have looked into whether her

disappearance is linked to previous relationship break-ups.

Alexander Sloley


Last Seen: Alexander was last seen by a friend in Edmonton, north London, on 2 August 2008.

Background: Alexander's was one of the first cases to be publicised on nearly 13.5m milk cartons

celand, the supermarket chain.

Quentin Adams


Last Seen: Buying cigarettes in Banchory on 6 November 2008.

Background: The used-car salesman had been living with his sister, and left three children behindHe disappeared without his mobile phone or passport.

oyce Wells


Last Seen: At her Bexhill home on 22 November 2008.

Background: Joyce was about to visit her daughter but failed to make the trip. She left personal

effects, including her handbag, behind.

Luke Durbin


Last Seen: Luke was last seen early on 12 May 2006 after a night clubbing with friends in Ipswich

Background: Luke had gone missing before, though only for one week and in that time he had

emained in contact with his sister. His mother has led the media campaign to locate him, appear

on TV appeals on numerous occasions.

Liz Chau


Last Seen: Walking to her home in West Ealing, London, 16 April 1999.

Background: Liz, a student at Thames Valley University, went missing shortly after handing in

coursework and meeting a friend for a drink.


9/10

Bernard Coomber


Last Seen: Around 10 January 2008, near his home in Kent.

Background: Struggled with unemployment. 'Missing' status means Anne, his sister, cannot sell o

et his house.

Robbie Carroll


Last Seen: He disappeared from his home in Lincolnshire on 20 February 2006.

Background: The Cambridge graduate, who specialised in Italian Renaissance literature, had

appeared unwell, according to friends. He was badly affected by the death of his mother.

Nicola Payne


Last Seen: Leaving her parents' home in Coventry on 14 December 1991.

Background: A family website carries messages. A man was arrested in 2007, but the case is stil

open.

ames Nutley


Last Seen: In Tenby, 24 October 2004.

Background: James was with around 20 other keen golfers on an annual trip to Tenby, West Wal

He failed to return to their hotel after a night out with friends, and his driver's licence was later

ound on the town's South Beach.

Ruth Wilson


Last Seen: Leaving her home in Betchworth in November 1995.

Background: Family raised alarm after she missed school; it was found she took a taxi to an

solated beauty spot.

Andrew Dill


10/10

Post Comment


Last Seen: 28 April 2003, at Hednesford train station, en route to his home in Birmingham.

Background: Andrew, a father of three, left no indication of his plans, but police have focused on

Manchester, Wolverhampton and Cannock as well as the Midlands area.

Paige Chivers


Last Seen: Leaving her Blackpool home, August 2007.

Background: Paige left home with a packed bag. Police have followed up sightings and the

possibility she may have joined a travelling fair.

SPONSORED LINKS:

Ads by Google

Buenos Aires Ultra Hotel

The Most Exclusive Petit Hotel inBuenos Aires. Experience it!

www.HotelUltra.com

Criminal Justice Insitute

MHS in Child ProtectionOnline Graduate Degree

www.cji.nova.edu/hscpms/

Artery Clearing Secret

Hugh Downs reports on breakthroughartery clearing secret.

www.bottomlinesecrets.com

Post a Comment

Subject:

Message:

View all comments that have been posted about this article.

Offensive or abusive comments will be removed and your IP logged and
http://news.independentminds.livejournal.com/4368767.htmlhttp://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=l&ai=BFjKwB2DSSuSAG6e0rAOlhcWgC6iB8IgBqL3eyw7AjbcBoNEZEAMYByDd6rEUKAM4AFCAjK6E-_____8BYMmG_4fwo-wSoAH4mq37A7IBFXd3dy5pbmRlcGVuZGVudC5jby51a7oBCTcyOHg5MF9qc8gBAdoBamh0dHA6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvbmV3cy91ay9ob21lLW5ld3MvdGhlLW1pc3NpbmctZWFjaC15ZWFyLTI3NTAwMC1icml0b25zLWRpc2FwcGVhci0xODAxMDEwLmh0bWzgAQLIAqL-vgmoAwHoA6YB6AMQ6AMO9QMAAAAE9QMgAAAA&num=7&sig=AGiWqtxpVEUK4Oc7-4BNvaV0mOFu1LMh4Q&client=ca-pub-5964551156905038&adurl=http://roia.biz/im/n/b9fNvq1BAAGJMUMAAASAQgAAUDhmMQA-A/http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=l&ai=BFjKwB2DSSuSAG6e0rAOlhcWgC6iB8IgBqL3eyw7AjbcBoNEZEAMYByDd6rEUKAM4AFCAjK6E-_____8BYMmG_4fwo-wSoAH4mq37A7IBFXd3dy5pbmRlcGVuZGVudC5jby51a7oBCTcyOHg5MF9qc8gBAdoBamh0dHA6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvbmV3cy91ay9ob21lLW5ld3MvdGhlLW1pc3NpbmctZWFjaC15ZWFyLTI3NTAwMC1icml0b25zLWRpc2FwcGVhci0xODAxMDEwLmh0bWzgAQLIAqL-vgmoAwHoA6YB6AMQ6AMO9QMAAAAE9QMgAAAA&num=7&sig=AGiWqtxpVEUK4Oc7-4BNvaV0mOFu1LMh4Q&client=ca-pub-5964551156905038&adurl=http://roia.biz/im/n/b9fNvq1BAAGJMUMAAASAQgAAUDhmMQA-A/http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=l&ai=B7CVkB2DSSuSAG6e0rAOlhcWgC_3kwV6P8MjMB8CNtwGwgSQQAhgGIN3qsRQoAzgAUPbcz_j-_____wFgyYb_h_Cj7BKyARV3d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWu6AQk3Mjh4OTBfanPIAQHaAWpodHRwOi8vd3d3LmluZGVwZW5kZW50LmNvLnVrL25ld3MvdWsvaG9tZS1uZXdzL3RoZS1taXNzaW5nLWVhY2gteWVhci0yNzUwMDAtYnJpdG9ucy1kaXNhcHBlYXItMTgwMTAxMC5odG1s4AECgAIByALf1psBqAMB6AOmAegDEOgDDvUDAAAABPUDIAAAAA&num=6&sig=AGiWqtzzoEJVl6sbgGBmSWnpd5EbDJWSMg&client=ca-pub-5964551156905038&adurl=http://www.cji.nova.edu/hscpms/http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=l&ai=B7CVkB2DSSuSAG6e0rAOlhcWgC_3kwV6P8MjMB8CNtwGwgSQQAhgGIN3qsRQoAzgAUPbcz_j-_____wFgyYb_h_Cj7BKyARV3d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWu6AQk3Mjh4OTBfanPIAQHaAWpodHRwOi8vd3d3LmluZGVwZW5kZW50LmNvLnVrL25ld3MvdWsvaG9tZS1uZXdzL3RoZS1taXNzaW5nLWVhY2gteWVhci0yNzUwMDAtYnJpdG9ucy1kaXNhcHBlYXItMTgwMTAxMC5odG1s4AECgAIByALf1psBqAMB6AOmAegDEOgDDvUDAAAABPUDIAAAAA&num=6&sig=AGiWqtzzoEJVl6sbgGBmSWnpd5EbDJWSMg&client=ca-pub-5964551156905038&adurl=http://www.cji.nova.edu/hscpms/http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=l&ai=BwEQdB2DSSuSAG6e0rAOlhcWgC6TAnY4B6I6myQ7UusiYE4CJehABGAUg3eqxFCgDOABQyLfy-fr_____AWDJhv-H8KPsEqABrO-L8gOyARV3d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWu6AQk3Mjh4OTBfanPIAQHaAWpodHRwOi8vd3d3LmluZGVwZW5kZW50LmNvLnVrL25ld3MvdWsvaG9tZS1uZXdzL3RoZS1taXNzaW5nLWVhY2gteWVhci0yNzUwMDAtYnJpdG9ucy1kaXNhcHBlYXItMTgwMTAxMC5odG1s4AECgAIBqQLQWkUxNoKRPsACAcgCosyqCagDAegDpgHoAxDoAw71AwAAAAT1AyAAAAA&num=5&sig=AGiWqtxaqnBBJcdRwNd449qpM9cCYmNgCg&client=ca-pub-5964551156905038&adurl=http://www.hotelultra.comhttp://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=l&ai=BwEQdB2DSSuSAG6e0rAOlhcWgC6TAnY4B6I6myQ7UusiYE4CJehABGAUg3eqxFCgDOABQyLfy-fr_____AWDJhv-H8KPsEqABrO-L8gOyARV3d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWu6AQk3Mjh4OTBfanPIAQHaAWpodHRwOi8vd3d3LmluZGVwZW5kZW50LmNvLnVrL25ld3MvdWsvaG9tZS1uZXdzL3RoZS1taXNzaW5nLWVhY2gteWVhci0yNzUwMDAtYnJpdG9ucy1kaXNhcHBlYXItMTgwMTAxMC5odG1s4AECgAIBqQLQWkUxNoKRPsACAcgCosyqCagDAegDpgHoAxDoAw71AwAAAAT1AyAAAAA&num=5&sig=AGiWqtxaqnBBJcdRwNd449qpM9cCYmNgCg&client=ca-pub-5964551156905038&adurl=http://www.hotelultra.comhttps://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/request.py?contact=abg_afc&url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-missing-each-year-275000-britons-disappear-1801010.html&hl=en&client=ca-pub-5964551156905038&adU=www.HotelUltra.com&adT=Buenos+Aires+Ultra+Hotel&adU=www.cji.nova.edu/hscpms/&adT=Criminal+Justice+Insitute&adU=www.bottomlinesecrets.com&adT=Artery+Clearing+Secret&gl=US

The Missing_ Each Year, 275,000 Britons Disappear - Home News, UK - The Independent

Documents

Transcript of The Missing_ Each Year, 275,000 Britons Disappear - Home News, UK - The Independent