I won’t see my boy again

Peter said: “She arranged singing lessons with someone who could help turn the tune and lyrics from my dream into a real song. I found myself singing it in front of 800 people. I got a standing ovation. “It gave Missing People the idea to set up a choir so people with missing loved ones could all come together.” Peter still tortures himself over Lee. He said: “I thought it was safe for him to go out on his own.” A 2013 police review probed a youth club run in a shed at St Dunstan’s Church, Cheam. A year-long dig of the graveyard cost £1million. In 2014 three men and a woman were arrested but later released without charge. Anybody with information about Lee’s disappearance should phone 101. ONE of the relatives in The Missing People Choir admits she will probably die before her son’s body is found.

In an exclusive interview, Denise Horvath-Allan said she had found a burial plot for her boy Charles, but does not ever expect to recover his remains.

Handsome Charles disappeared while backpacking in Canada shortly before his 21st birthday. That was nearly 28 years ago. His face flashed up on a screen during the choir’s BGT performance last night.

Denise, 67, said: “It is likely I will go to the grave, as his nana did, not knowing his fate. But I will never give up the search for him.

“The tears don’t pour like they used to in the past, but there is never a moment when I don’t think about him and yearn to hold him tight.”

She added: “Singing with the choir has been euphoric for me. It lifts the soul. I am able to sing for him. And it is comforting to be in the company of others who share the same emotional pain.”

Charles was last seen on May 26, 1989, in Kelowna, British Columbia. There has been no trace of him.