Singing about missing son helps me to cope

FOR nearly 30 years Peter Bo Boxell has lived with the ag agony of not knowing what ha happened to his footballma mad son who vanished wi without a trace aged 15. Last night Britain’s Got Ta Talent viewers got a taste of his pain as he and other lov loved ones of missing pe people sang I Miss You. Peter, 70, told the Sunday Pe People how he wrote the son song in 2014 as police sea searched for Lee’s remains. L Lee vanished in September 198 1988 after going to meet a pal i in Sutton, South London. Po Police feared he had been killed by paedophiles running a youth club in a church’s grounds but no s sign of Lee was found. Peter, o of Sutton, South London, said: “It wasw an extremely difficul difficult time. We didn’t want Lee fo found dead. But we desperate desperately wanted to know what hap happened so we could grieve. T The pain of not knowing is unbearable,un even after all thes these years.” He said writing I Miss You helped him to cop cope as he and wife Christine, 75,75 awaited news. “I’m not su sure how I’d have got through that period without my singing to keep my busy,” he said. “For 29 years not a day has passed when I haven’t thought, ‘Where is Lee?’ Singing has given me a new purpose. By writing songs I can raise awareness of Lee and other missing people in the hope someone’s conscience might be pricked into telling police what they know.”

Before 2013, Peter could not read music but one night he dreamed he was on stage singing about Lee. He told a friend at Missing People about it and she asked him to sing at the charity’s Christmas concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London.

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