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FAMILIES desperate to find loved ones who have been missing for many years hope their emotional audition on Britain’s Got Talent may finally achieve a breakthrough.
In a tear-jerking audition, The Missing People Choir perform for the judges on ITV tonight, with images of their missing relatives appearing on the screen behind them. Some have not been seen for decades.
Peter Boxell has not seen his son Lee since 1988 when he was 15 and vanished in Sutton, south London, after a football match.
Peter tells the cameras: “When my son Lee went missing he was 15. He would now be 41, I just want to find him. But I know we are not the only ones going through this, we are all in this together and we can all stand by each other.
“Hopefully, some of the youngsters who went missing, their photographs will be shown on the screen behind us and maybe someone will come forward and tell us what has happened to them.
“We all have to live in hope, if there wasn’t hope there would be nothing.
“We enjoy singing and hopefully we will get some results from that.”
Sarah Godwin, whose son vanished from his family home in West Auckland, New Zealand, 25 years ago, said: “My son Quentin went missing when he was 18, just walked away from the family home one afternoon after school and was never seen again.
“Having the support of each other makes us stronger, sitting here together makes us stronger and singing together makes us super strong.
“The choir is energising, warming, safe, moving – beyond words. We can each feel our own love and sadness and pain, but we are there for each other and somehow it becomes joyful too.”
The choir perform the song I Miss You with lyrics written by Peter Boxell which includes the lines: “I never thought I’d be without you.
“I always thought you’d be here safe with me. Maybe tomorrow I’ll wake up to find you.” Judge Amanda Holden told
the choir they “did themselves proud” and says she is hopeful tonight’s show will help reunite parents with their missing children.
Amanda said: “I looked at all their faces and there was one woman who looked so worn down.
“You could see she had spent years waiting for the phone to ring or the doorbell to go and then she is singing. I don’t know how they carry on every day. I can’t imagine anything worse.
“They are talented and they will