Still missing after a month
IN Greater Manchester each year thousands of people go missing, leaving behind unanswered questions and families wracked with uncertainty.
Witnesses can come forward with sightings weeks, months or years later. Sometimes the trail simply goes cold.
Below are details of people who have gone missing since Christmas, whose disappearance is being investigated by Greater Manchester Police, or being circulated by the national charity Missing People. A spokesman for the charity said: “Some missing people you will have heard of, but many more you won’t.
“For their families, life can feel like a desperate and unbearable struggle as they wait for days or even years.”
In 2016 GMP received 13,155 reports of missing people, with almost 6,000 concerning missing children.
PAUL BULLOUGH, 39 Last seen: Wigan
Paul, from the Kitt Green area of Wigan, has not been seen since Boxing Day evening.
He was last spotted wearing tracksuit bottoms and a green Lacoste corduroy jacket.
There are reported sightings of him on Thursday, December 28, near the Saddle Junction in Wigan and near the Dean Trust Wigan school in Orrell on Monday, January 8.
MARIE SCOTT, 57 Last seen: Hale
Marie Scott was last seen at around noon on Monday, December 18, on Sandileigh Avenue in Hale.
Described as 5ft 4ins with mid-length blonde hair, she is known to have boarded the 12.30pm train from Altrincham to Manchester on the day she went missing.
She got off at Deansgate station at 12.54pm and made her way along Deansgate where she spoke to a couple outside Blacks at 1.07pm.
Police have released CCTV images of the couple who they want to speak to.
There was a further reported sighting
of Marie at the Duke Street car park just before 2.10pm.
STUART BARNES, 52 Last seen: Leigh
Stuart was last seen at the Asda supermarket in his hometown of Leigh on Friday, December 15.
He is described as white, of medium build, around 5ft 8ins with short black hair and was believed to be wearing a black jacket, jeans and Rockport boots at the time he disappeared.
KEITH SIDLOW, 63 Last seen: Failsworth
Keith Sidlow was last seen at his home around 4.45pm on December 13.
He was wearing a black leather jacket and is described as white, 5ft 10ins and of medium build with short greying hair.