Missing Date: 12/31/1959 Age: 16 at disappearance, would be 79 Mary Flanagan is the Met’s oldest missing person case. A teenager at the time, she never returned from her work’s New Year’s Eve party. There was a renewed appeal by her family in 2013, her 70th anniversary. They said they want to “leave this world”… Read More »Mary Flanagan
Missing Date: 10/01/1993 Age: 49 at disappearance, would be 78 Location: Mitcham Bernadette Cooper, from Monoghan, Ireland, made a phone call from a pub in Tooting before going missing. She owned an Irish pub in Spain, which she had to close in 1992 due to the Spanish recession. After that, she returned to the UK… Read More »Bernadette Cooper
Age: 28 at disappearance, would be 32 Missing date: 4/17/19 Location: Manor Park Aron Kato, who is from Newham, disappeared in East London after being pushed into a black BMW in Ley Street in Ilford, according to CCTV. The investigation escalated to a murder probe by the police in July 2019 and they arrested one… Read More »Aron Kato
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… Read More »Alexander Sloley
Missing Date: 06/07/2006 Age: 36 at disappearance, would be 52 Location: Clapham Andrew Faria went missing in Clapham. His family has renewed their appeal last year and said: “It has been 15 years since you went missing. There is not a time that we will not give up hope that one day you will be… Read More »Andrew Faria
Missing Date: 09/06/2017 Age: 37 at disappearance, would be 42 Location: Barking and Dagenham Stafana Otilia Malinici, known as Otilia, mother of two, went missing after she left her home on Beccles Drive in Barking. Police reported that her last sighting on CCTV was in a shop on Green Lane in Ilford the following month.… Read More »Stefana Otilia Malinici
Almost 70 per cent of people who are reported as missing are found within the first 24 hours. With every hour that passes after that, the chances of them being found decreases significantly. A tiny minority of those who are reported as missing – around 1% – are still missing after 28 days. These long-term… Read More »Start the clock: why the first 24 hours are crucial