Missing Date: 7/11/2008
Age: 16 at disappearance, would be 27
Location: Enfield
Alexander Sloley was on his way back from a friend’s house in Enfield when he went missing. He had little money, no wallet and no extra clothes at the time to suggest that he had any plans of running away from home. The charity Missing People UK in conjunction with the supermarket chain Iceland publicised Sloley’s disappearance and photo on nearly 13.5m milk cartons in 2009. His case was one of the first examples of the charity using such strategy. Although a few sightings were reported, none could be proved and the police, therefore, were unable to track him. In 2012, one officer working on the case said: “It’s like he disappeared off the face of the planet.” He was an accountancy student at City and Islington College and formerly attended Islington Arts and Media School. An e-fit image of him was released in 2019, eleven years after his disappearance, by the police. His mother, Nerissa Tivy, said she wept when she saw how her son would look as a 27-year-old. She told the BBC on the 10th anniversary of his disappearance that “something terrible must have happened to him”. His father Christopher died in 2014 without knowing what happened to Alexander. Tivy criticised the police investigation and said they didn’t contact her officially until two years later. She also said that the police had not informed her of “10 reported sightings” of her son, starting 2009. HB