If you look at his first appeal to her you can see that he is writing it from the perspective that Helen has voluntarily left him. The recent one is the same. To my mind, the fact that he rules out something bad having happened to her, and doesn't say just let us know you're ok, while sending out the clear message that Helen must be alive and has the choice to return, he is desperately diverting attention away from foul play.
He can't have known though (assuming he was innocent) if there was foul play caused by another.
The other things that struck me most about that message he wrote were as follows:
He did not read the statement out himself [nor the other statement/plea]. That struck me as highly unusual. It may not be, but it really struck me that way.
His repeated use of 'we' [eg '
we miss you and Boris so much. We are shattered in so many ways'] rather than initially emphasizing his own sorrow/sense of loss. She was
his partner, after all. Other people's feelings are placed right up there with his own, and that struck me as some form of self-distancing.
He wrote '“
We promised each other 30 years. Please keep that promise and come home"
Claims of promises, expressed in subliminal and/or inadvertent tones that the writer believes those promises were/are not being honoured/kept. That is what struck me most forcibly. We are used to seeing feelings leaking out [either in words or physical actions/non-verbal behaviours] in statements made in front of cameras, but here I had the sense that feelings were inadvertently leaking out even in a carefully written statement
An interesting article - although also very sad in light of today's news
http://www.lifeafterlondon.com/leaving-london-not-quite-the-dream/
Another piece where negative feelings [this time Helen's] are being expressed/revealed, alongside self conscious but not quite convincing efforts to present the 'good side'.
She was by all accounts such a really strong, nice, genuine, kind, thoughtful woman. She had time for people. She was a giver. She was a carer. Everyone says so. She was either interviewed for or wrote this very revealing article as a favour for someone she 'met' on Face Book.
I never thought she had gone off on some Agatha Christie type 'gap' without telling her parents. She wasn't made that way. I just hope this phase of the investigation does not drag on too long for the sake of her parents, family members and friends.