I think succinctly we can safely suggest that with all the will and best interests at heart...
The Police, being under funded and having a distinct lack of sufficient resources, have tried their damnedest to do their jobs as professionally as they could using the confidentiality protocols available to them.
The family have shown great resilience and tenacity. Although appearing divided through past histories, they've stood firm and used their respective professions and qualities to parallel the police's efforts. They've obviously shown frustration and this has resulted in outbursts that only they could get away with in that non working environment.
Corrie living several hundred miles away from his mum and family has 'grown up'. His interested have changed and his experimentation phase has no doubt kicked in...all within the acceptable realms of the military. He's young, carefree and although a risk taker with safeguards, he's happy to push the limits of the boundaries and not consider the consequences too much. He's an Infanteer. A thinking Infanteer is no good to a defence/attack system.
I'm not local but I've drank in Bury many times and queued to get in to the smallest pub in the world once or twice. It's a quaint place. No hassle, nice people, usual yobs but nothing that detracts from its accepting and welcome environment. It MAY have a drug culture, I wasn't aware of it as it wasn't my thing. It may have a drinking problem, any Serviceman/woman would more than likely be part of it (and then some). Nothing appears 'dangerous' or 'antisocial' about the place.
I genuinely think that the whole evening was just strung along on a whim. Just like the impression that I'm getting about him. Carefree, happy go lucky and enjoying life. He's fed the dog, made last minute plans to go out, made last minute plans to drive, made last minute plans to get drunk, got kicked out of the nightclub, made last minute plans to call/text someone for a lift, secured last minute plans to meet them...
The phone is the answer to all this I think. I feel confident that they should be able to access his phone contacts list, transmissions, activities and narrow it down from there. How do they do this? Presumably you can't when it's an absent person? Maybe it needs to go to official AWOL status by the military and consequently 'Missing' status by the police. That's surely a damning statement to make for any organisation. The career and pension system alone would take a hammering at the very least if he turned up for Hogmanay!
JMO
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