Can PH solve the missing Honington airman?

[chilistrucker]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

chilistrucker said:

Sorry meant too add, this story has had a lot of coverage on web sleuths.

This story has for the first time put me in the direction of websleuths and I ended up reading quite a few pages. What a load of professional busy bodies Everyone's Inspector Poirot after Making A Murderer it seems.

The simple fact seems to be that there is a distinct lack of "full disclosure" from the police while they're still investigating and in the vacuum of fact, people seem to make up their own.

I only stumbled on it myself recently. It came up on a recent series I was following on the crime and investigation channel about the LISK killer in the states.

[saaby93]

A site map has been posted up


Apparently the cctv camera does a scan every 3 minutes so he could have made an exit after all.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-38469...

[LaurasOtherHalf]

saaby93 said:

A site map has been posted up


Apparently the cctv camera does a scan every 3 minutes so he could have made an exit after all.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-38469...

It's intriguing that only his own family have been instrumental in pushing the theory that it was 100% impossible for him to leave without CCTV catching him. As far as I'm aware the police have never said this.

[saaby93]

more news including singing video

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-3848318...

beeb said:

He was seen walking into a dead-end loading bay area known at the "horseshoe" but did not come out again.

Is that still believed to be true?

[jbswagger]

Missing airman 'due to become a father'

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/post.asp?h=0&am...

[Dan_1981]

That'll bring him outta the woodwork.... or we'll never see him again!

[sugerbear]

saaby93 said:

more news including singing video

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-3848318...

beeb said:

He was seen walking into a dead-end loading bay area known at the "horseshoe" but did not come out again.

Is that still believed to be true?

If you look at the horseshoe on streetview you will see that there are gates and doors from properties that back onto it. He could have gone through one of those or even up and over the roof as there is a fire escape from one of them. Hardly a one way exit.

[eccles]

sugerbear said:

saaby93 said:

more news including singing video

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-3848318...

beeb said:

He was seen walking into a dead-end loading bay area known at the "horseshoe" but did not come out again.

Is that still believed to be true?

If you look at the horseshoe on streetview you will see that there are gates and doors from properties that back onto it. He could have gone through one of those or even up and over the roof as there is a fire escape from one of them. Hardly a one way exit.

The term horseshoe is quite misleading as well in that it implies a narrow entrance. In reality it's a wider part of the street where some shops keep thier bins and is in no way enclosed.

[768]

Part of a phone case found near where the signal stopped.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-38568...

[LaurasOtherHalf]

768 said:

Part of his phone case found near where the signal stopped.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-38568...

Sorry to be pedantic; part of a phone with no identifiable marks, the same or similar to the one he had has been found near to where his last phone signal was recognised.

[Gretchen]

I've followed this on and off. Having a son the same age as him. It's made me question a lot of aspects ofboth our social lives.

I do wonder how differently this might have been handled had it been a woman...

[Ms R.Saucy]

Gretchen said:

I've followed this on and off. Having a son the same age as him. It's made me question a lot of aspects ofboth our social lives.

I do wonder how differently this might have been handled had it been a woman...

not sure it would have been handled any differently from a Police / MoD point of view , the media reaction might have been different though.

[Gretchen]

Ms R.Saucy said:

Gretchen said:

I've followed this on and off. Having a son the same age as him. It's made me question a lot of aspects ofboth our social lives.

I do wonder how differently this might have been handled had it been a woman...

not sure it would have been handled any differently from a Police / MoD point of view , the media reaction might have been different though.

I think that's more what I meant. Would there be more publicity leading to more witnesses coming forward kind of thing.
Quite sad.

[Ms R.Saucy]

Gretchen said:

I think that's more what I meant. Would there be more publicity leading to more witnesses coming forward kind of thing.
Quite sad.

however there are various unresolved missing female cases e.g. Claudia Lawrence / Melanie Hall / Jo Yeates ...

[Truckosaurus]

Gretchen said:

I think that's more what I meant. Would there be more publicity leading to more witnesses coming forward kind of thing.
Quite sad.

The 'missing airman' angle has also given this story plenty of national publicity that it wouldn't have had if it was a civilian lad that had gone missing (especially as it followed shortly after the claimed abduction attempt elsewhere).

[Oakey]

Ms R.Saucy said:

however there are various unresolved missing female cases e.g. Claudia Lawrence / Melanie Hall / Jo Yeates ...

What's unresolved about Jo Yeates?

[sugerbear]

Truckosaurus said:

Gretchen said:

I think that's more what I meant. Would there be more publicity leading to more witnesses coming forward kind of thing.
Quite sad.

The 'missing airman' angle has also given this story plenty of national publicity that it wouldn't have had if it was a civilian lad that had gone missing (especially as it followed shortly after the claimed abduction attempt elsewhere).

I found this FOI request which is interesting, AWOL / desertion isn't unusual in the Army or the RAF.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploa...
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[Gretchen]

Truckosaurus said:

The 'missing airman' angle has also given this story plenty of national publicity that it wouldn't have had if it was a civilian lad that had gone missing (especially as it followed shortly after the claimed abduction attempt elsewhere).

Mostly, in my opinion, instigated by his own Mother.

[eldar]

Still looking for witnesses.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-38613...

[kiethton]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4131428/Co...

Looks like the investigation's still in full swing