rbbm.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/4467221/mystery-andrew-gosden-doncaster-boy-one-way-ticket-london-ten-years-ago-never-seen-again/
Pic above, ear very visible.
It seems that a number of brilliant students have mysteriously disappeared over the years, so- where do super smart people go? imo, speculation.
Snippets from the various people who knew Andrew.
23 May 2009 By
Anna Moore
Runaway child: 'How can a kid disappear from the face of the earth?’ | Daily Mail Online
''We’ve come up with all sorts of explanations over the months, but we’ve settled on a couple of favourites,’ says Kevin.
‘The first is that he went back to a new school term and, ten days in, thought, “GCSEs? A-levels? More hoops to jump through.” Maybe he thought, “I’d rather go off and be my own person.”’
In some ways, Andrew had the right personality for this. ‘He certainly thought very deeply around faith and philosophy.
Not long before he went, he was reading Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche.’ Andrew was also self-possessed and mature, gravitating towards adult company. Though he had a small, close group of friends, he’d stopped seeing them outside school.
‘I actually got quite worried about his lack of socialising outside school, but he was adamant that everything was fine,’ says Kevin.''
''Who knows what Andrew looks like now?
‘He cannot lose his glasses without being blind as a bat, but he was growing his hair long and planning to dye it black,’ says Kevin. ‘But if he is alive and well and trying to avoid detection, he is quite bright enough to shave his head and wear very different clothing. Andrew was highly capable of advanced strategic thinking. No mean chess player.’
Kevin has e-mailed every school in the UK, and every entry to the Goth scene, as Andrew’s taste in music was heading in this direction. He is now working through the museums –
Andrew loved museums – and the gay and transgendered community (‘That’s not based on anything we know – just thinking what might be hard for a 14-year-old to deal with,’ says Kevin)''.
''Laura Oxenham, 16, has known Andrew since primary school
‘If you didn’t know Andrew, you’d think he was quiet. Once you got to know him, he wasn’t. He was lively, fun, really intelligent. I think
when we got to secondary school, he changed a bit. He had two close friends, but shut himself off from a lot of people.''
''Alan Murray, vicar, neighbour, friend (and father of Sandy, above)
‘I saw Andrew as an absent-minded professor, a brilliant mathematician''
''Martin Taylor, Andrew’s maths teacher
‘Andrew had a good sense of humour, which I liked; but he was also capable of doing calculations in his head that no one else could contemplate — with answers into the billions.''
''Eileen Johnstone, family friend
‘I’ve known him since he was a babe. ''
‘Andrew always had such a lovely smile, and was always kind, always loving. We used to go over to his house to eat and play board games. Andrew would flatten me.
In Scrabble, he played words I hadn’t even heard of.''
