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The Strange Disappearance of Andrew Gosden
"Some more theories: he's in the Thames. In May of 2011, a company specialising in at-sea-rescue, offered to perform a sonar search of the capital's river. It resulted in the discovery of a body, though it wasn't Andrew's. T
he aforementioned Mick Neville believes the possibilities of a connection between Andrew and Alex Sloley, a 16-year-old who went missing from London ten months after him, should be investigated.
Or maybe he’s in Shrewsbury.
In November of 2008, a man visited Leominster Police Station out of hours, professing, via intercom, to have information about Andrew. By the time someone had come to take his information, the man had disappeared. After the BBC featured the Andrew Gosden case on
The One Show, the BBC received an anonymous letter from someone claiming to be the man from Leominster Police Station.
It claimed that Andrew had been sighted in Shrewsbury. There is no confirmation the person who wrote the letter and the man at the police station are one and the same.
There have also been "sightings" in Plymouth, South Wales, Southend and Birkenhead, though recently all efforts have looked to Lincoln for answers.
"Last year, around the time of the tenth anniversary of Andrew’s disappearance, we received a tip from someone who said he’d been talking to someone named 'Andyroo' online," says Kevin. "The person our contact was talking to said, 'My partner has just walked out and I need help.' Our contact offered to help, asked 'Andyroo' what he needed. 'Andyroo' told him he needed £200 to make rent.
Our contact noticed 'Andyroo' was listed as living in Lincoln, some distance from him, and so offered to transfer some money to help him out. 'Andyroo' said he didn't have a bank account because he'd left home when he was 14. He said he'd 'just felt like it'. What's really interesting about this, is that our nickname for Andrew as a kid was 'Roo'…"