http://www.herefordtimes.com/search/3931346.Caller_sought_in_Andrew_Gosden_case/
I have always wondered why it was thought to be a man. A voice that sounded like one? Could Andrew, at 14 have sounded like a man?
Well here is the answer. It was not anything that ultimately helped.
http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/3...ng_boy_information_finds_police_station_shut/
The man did contact police again about an anonymous sighting in Shrewsbury. He wrote annonymously to the BBC giving details.
That is information I didn't know before. Begs the question why he felt he had to stay annonymous, but felt a need to report.
If he went to the police station he was not at that point wanting to be annonymous. However, if you were reporting a missing person sighting wouldn't you wait till the police got to the station unless you were afraid of something?
I have followed the case from the start. In all this time I had never seen that the man contacted the BBC. I always wondered why he made no further contact and am rather relieved the man did. I do think this might have been a credible sighting. Why follow up with the BBC otherwise? Why be annonymous?
Even if it was not Andrew, I think this man thought it was and was sufficiently concerned to try to make a report, but was also afraid of something.
Thinking it through. He goes to the police and finds there is nobody there. If you were just someone trying to make mischief wouldn't you find another way to do it?
Just searched the digital spy forums and found a post that says that the man actually spoke to Andrew and tried informing several missing persons organisations with no luck. That would be odd given the publicity and his age.
It seems they said on the "The One Show" this person claims he spoke Andrew on the 24th Nov in the year he disappeared and even tried unsuccessfully to talk to some Missing Person organisations.
One point that is important to make. In the Uk if a child leaves home, then they can go to social services and be put in a home at that age nobody will make them return. I am not sure if the parents are always told where they are. I would think so, because of parental responsibility, but that still doesn't mean you can get the child back home if the child refuses to go. If the parents do need to be informed where the child is, then that would eliminate this possibility.
I think parents are told if the child reports abuse and is taken to a place of safety as there is a Child Protection investigation. We can rule that option out.
Perhaps we should start thinking where Andrew was not, rather than where he might be.
Andrew was not:
At School when he disappeared. He waited in a field, went home and changed his clothes. He put his school things in a washing machine, picked up his Play Station and went to Doncaster Station and got a train to Kings Cross.
Andrew had a clear intention to leave, didn't want to be in his school clothes, took a PS so knew he wanted to be occupied on a journey, Bought a ticket to London He didn't leave in a hurry, was not unprepared for his trip. It was not unplanned, but could have been a planned on that day on the way to school. I can see a scenario of an intelligent boy that age finally feeling he has had enough and cannot bear another day at school.,
Wherever he was the day he disappeared he was not penniless as he cleared his bank account.
Andrew was not in Doncaster, which rules out foul play by family members, There is a video footage of him arriving at Kings Cross. So far this is the action of someone who has a clear purpose in what they are doing.
Andrew is alone.
Not at School, and not at home and not in Doncaster.
He is not on a train after Kings Cross.
He is not on an overground train.
He may be on foot.
an underground train as the underground is right beside the main train station
On a bus.
The route Andrew took was not one that you make making an overground journey on a train.
Andrew was not recognised by anyone on public transport including buses and underground trains
Where do buses go from Kings Cross?
Where do underground trains go from Kings Cross?
Taxis are not an option financially and not taxi driver recognised him.
Possibility - Andrew was on foot once he left Kings Crosss and walked to his destination
It could have been a car.
Andrew was not hungry. He had money and there was a possible sighting of him in a cafe. If it is Andrew in a cafe, later and alone, then he has NOT yet met anyone. He has not found a place to stay. He is not in any distress. We could say Andrew was not in difficulty as such and such a time if we knew what the time was.
A lad playing truant would need to eat. Nobody has said they saw Andrew buying food the day he left home apart from the one sightng.
Possibility
Andrew was not buying food after this point. I think it could have been Andrew because a young lad eating alone might be more noticeable than not.
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Where would that place Andrew? Can we build a timeline including the cafe sighting? I cannot find details of this anywhere. Would that then indicate a journey?
ld we say there is a possibility something happened to Andrew after that time and after reaching the cafe?
What was the cafe near? What kind of area was it?
At this point he is not dishevelled
Has his bag
Has his glasses
Is still alone.
Is not looking worried.
Is not returning via Kings Cross as he bought a single ticket.
Andrew cannot voluntarily leave the country
Did Andrew have a passport where is it? For the moment I assume he did not have a passport.
Andrew does not have the means to leave the country.
Andrew cannot be in Shrewsbury the day he left home
Where is Shrewsbury in relation to Kings Cross? You don't go to Shrewsbury from Doncaster via Kings Cross. Andrew did NOT go straight to Shrewsbury.
Andrew is not in contact
Andrew is not in contact with his family. He doesn't leave a note to say "don't worry."
There is no suicide note.
There is nothing missing that doesn't belong to Andrew
Andrew has not taken anything that indicates a long stay away.
Andrew has no phone
Andrew has no email
Andrew has no social media presence that is known
Andrew is a loner so had few friends
Andrew presumably is not happy when bullied at school
Andrew is not at loggerheads with his family-any of them.
Andrew is not uncared for or unloved
Andrew is not a Christian, but his parents are. There is no religious disagreement and his parents are tolerant.
Andrew is not carrying a phone
To the best of my knowledge he doesn't carry a mobile phone.
Andrew is not likely to find a safe place to stay overnight
Andrew is not old enough to find a safe hotel?
Andrew has enough money to survive for a short while, but NOT a long while.
Andrew is not old enough to work
Andrew is not old enough to work
Andrew has not used his social security number or his bank account since leaving (his parents put money into the account
Andrew is not without money and has a bank card.[/I]
Andrew has not made contact
Andrew has not rung home, used his bank card, tried to leave the country, turned up as a body, been found due to any sighting.
Made contact with a friend, his Mum, Dad, Sister, anyone at all.
Admitted to being Andrew unless to this unidentified person who says they spoke to him.
Andrew is not in the River Thames (this was dredged.)
Andrews belongings have not turned up
His play station has not turned up.
His bag has not turned up.
His clothing has not turned up.
His bank account has not been used.
Andrew was not mentally ill.
Andrew was not old or large enough for people not to notice him, but he was not carrying anything that would mark him out as travelling. He would not be noticeable because he is a boy with a bag going somewhere, not a boy with luggage who you might wonder about.
There has not been a confirmed sighting
There have been about 122 supposed sightings of a boy who is not unrecognisable because of his ear.
It would be hard to go all these years and not want to make contact unless something dreadful had happened at home. I do not think that anythng dreadful happened at home.
The police do not think Andrew is alive.
If you wanted to go missing would you not try and wear an indistinctiveT shirt?
Wouldn't a clever boy like Andrew avoid CCTV though I cannot think how. If he didn't want to be found, why wear a Slipknot T shirt and why not try to avoid CCTV? (Or does it occur to Andrew to do so after this point?)
Andrew is not caught on CCTV
The trouble is that police delayed searching it till most CCTV footage would have been destroyed. It gets deleted after about two weeks.
I am beginning to think that Andrew is not alive...I hope he is.
(I have to stop and get ready to go out, but I just wanted to think round the whole thing again. I pray a lot for this boy to be found. He looks so similar to my own son at that age and I skived school and went to London a lot in my youth.)