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Old 04-10-2016, 19:01
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Very very odd.
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Old 04-10-2016, 20:19
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That looks a very quiet area to be walking alone at such a late hour. Not very wise at all. I wonder why he didn't get a taxi or call friends to pick him up?
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Old 04-10-2016, 20:23
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I hope...really hope...that this doesn't turn out to be what everyone on the BBC was trying hard not to mention; a second attempt by jihadis to snatch an airman off-station...
So do I, phylo, and I sincerely hope that the Sky New report is correct:

"Suffolk police also said there was nothing to suggest Corrie McKeague, who disappeared on 24 September, was abducted."
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Old 04-10-2016, 20:57
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So do I, phylo, and I sincerely hope that the Sky New report is correct:

"Suffolk police also said there was nothing to suggest Corrie McKeague, who disappeared on 24 September, was abducted."
That does however read as if someone did raise the issue of the elephant in the room...
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Old 04-10-2016, 21:18
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If he had been abducted, one would expect horrible videos of him being tortured and killed.

I suspect he has died either of exposure in a field somewhere or feel in a local river. There was a young single mum here in Scotland who went missing from the Glasgow quayside recently, obvious fears of sexual attack/murder. Turns out she was drunk and fell into the Clyde, her body took a few days to be recovered.
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Old 04-10-2016, 21:44
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I have seen me lose friends in a bar with 20 people in never mind a busy club in town etc, All it takes is someone to move a few feet from where they were and you look elsewhere for them and they return to that spot and someone says you have been and gone so they go looking and before you know it you are both in separate places looking for the other

Obviously a charged phone means this is easily sorted, But a flat phone and you are stuck
Did something similar a couple of months ago. Arranged to meet a couple of mates in a local pub. Turned up on time and thought I'd got there before them. Had a (soft) drink whilst waiting. Ten minutes later no sign. One mate has no mobile and I didn't have my other mates. I had a look around the small pub, checked outside, crossed the road to see if they were walking across the bridge from the other side of the river, nothing.

Went back in to the pub and still no sign. Eventually gave up and went home. Thought perhaps I'd got the wrong day. Following day I rang my mate who asked my I hadn't turned up. Explained it all. Then found out they had been in the pub at the same time looking for me! How we all missed each other I have no idea and wouldn't have believed it possible.
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Old 04-10-2016, 21:47
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Doesn't sound good.

I hope he turns up ok at some point but not looking good.

It's possible gone awol though.
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Old 04-10-2016, 21:54
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Did something similar a couple of months ago. Arranged to meet a couple of mates in a local pub. Turned up on time and thought I'd got there before them. Had a (soft) drink whilst waiting. Ten minutes later no sign. One mate has no mobile and I didn't have my other mates. I had a look around the small pub, checked outside, crossed the road to see if they were walking across the bridge from the other side of the river, nothing.

Went back in to the pub and still no sign. Eventually gave up and went home. Thought perhaps I'd got the wrong day. Following day I rang my mate who asked my I hadn't turned up. Explained it all. Then found out they had been in the pub at the same time looking for me! How we all missed each other I have no idea and wouldn't have believed it possible.
Perhaps you were in the tap room while they were in the pool room, or similar? That's happened to me once. I thought it was a really quiet pub with just a few old timers propping the bar up, turned out the other two thirds of the pub that I'd failed to immediately notice was packed out!
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Old 04-10-2016, 22:00
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Perhaps you were in the tap room while they were in the pool room, or similar? That's happened to me once. I thought it was a really quiet pub with just a few old timers propping the bar up, turned out the other two thirds of the pub was packed out!
There is only one floor. It does however have two front entrances. My best guess is that when I went out one to look outside, they came in the other. Or alternatively when I went to look at the tables at the back they came in the front. They apparently waited a while too but sat on a table outside. When I went out they probably went in the other door at the same time.
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Old 05-10-2016, 06:40
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Doesn't sound good.

I hope he turns up ok at some point but not looking good.

It's possible gone awol though.
I don't think you go awol just dressed in light clothing for a night out.

Seems the the bin lorry had nothing to do with it and it's route just coincided with the pings from his phone.
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Old 05-10-2016, 06:44
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That looks a very quiet area to be walking alone at such a late hour. Not very wise at all. I wonder why he didn't get a taxi or call friends to pick him up?
Because he was used to walking back to base, as do most of them from Honington apparently.
Bury St Edmunds is a pretty darn safe town, and I don't recall ever hearing of anyone being attacked while walking round there late at night.
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Old 05-10-2016, 06:46
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Not if he set off across country to get back to base. Huge area of countryside to search, wooded areas, ponds, rivers, ditches.
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Old 01-11-2016, 12:27
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Still no news on this. dreadful.
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Old 01-11-2016, 12:44
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Wasn't there cctv of him looking worse for wear going up a dead end behind some shops and none of him coming out from where he was last caught on camera?
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Old 01-11-2016, 13:41
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Wasn't there cctv of him looking worse for wear going up a dead end behind some shops and none of him coming out from where he was last caught on camera?
Yes this is really the mysterious part. He was not caught on camera again in the town by any of the other cameras. This seems to rule out him drunkenly wandering back towards his base and then encountering some sort of trouble.

The police have not found his phone but have tracked it and are suggesting it was in a vehicle because of the distance it travelled so quickly.
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Old 01-11-2016, 13:48
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On that CCTV clip, he dropped something and picked it up (reasonably easily). But he was unsteady on his feet it seems.

Could he have dropped his phone and busted the screen?
If so, he may just have decided to bin it.

My brother has done this several times (while not in his right mind)

"It's alright" he says "Android is great. I just buy a new phone and all my apps and data reappear from the Google backup"

Speculation, I know.
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Old 01-11-2016, 14:00
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On that CCTV clip, he dropped something and picked it up (reasonably easily). But he was unsteady on his feet it seems.

Could he have dropped his phone and busted the screen?
If so, he may just have decided to bin it.

My brother has done this several times (while not in his right mind)

"It's alright" he says "Android is great. I just buy a new phone and all my apps and data reappear from the Google backup"

Speculation, I know.
I don't think this was the case because the police say the phone travelled in a vehicle.
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Old 01-11-2016, 14:04
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The bin would have been emptied. The phone was not in the one Bin Lorry they searched, but it might have been in another one. Or a Council handcart man might have emptied the town bins.

Or a passer-by could have taken it.

It's just a random scenario. But it's not impossible.
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Old 01-11-2016, 14:20
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The bin would have been emptied. The phone was not in the one Bin Lorry they searched, but it might have been in another one. Or a Council handcart man might have emptied the town bins.

Or a passer-by could have taken it.

It's just a random scenario. But it's not impossible.
Everything is possible at this stage but I think the more likely scenario is that he ended up travelling with somebody. How has it all been missed by CCTV though?
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Old 01-11-2016, 15:01
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No cameras round the back of that street and further out of town, I guess

Or they are on 24 hr loops and been overwritten.
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Old 01-11-2016, 15:52
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Very strange, flyers have been delivered in the local area (we have one) to put in our cars.

Some more witnesses have been spoken to in the last week, one possible sighting along a road.
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Old 01-11-2016, 19:38
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Around 200,000 people go missing in the UK every year, of which around 30,000 are never seen again.
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Old 01-11-2016, 20:11
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i live in caerphilly,an elderly gentleman called trevor ellais has been missing for a couple of years now,he was caught on cctv walking in the village where he lived,nothing since every now and again the police show his picture in the hope somebody will come forward as a witness to what happened,these disapearances are very strange
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Old 01-11-2016, 20:47
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i live in caerphilly,an elderly gentleman called trevor ellais has been missing for a couple of years now,he was caught on cctv walking in the village where he lived,nothing since every now and again the police show his picture in the hope somebody will come forward as a witness to what happened,these disapearances are very strange
Here's an ode to Trevor Ellias. Perhaps I'll meet him one day.
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Old 01-11-2016, 22:06
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Around 200,000 people go missing in the UK every year, of which around 30,000 are never seen again.
Where do you get the figure of 30,000 never being seen again, please?
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