UK UK - Jack O'Sullivan, 22, left friends after night out, last seen Brunel Lock Road/Brunel Way, Bristol at 3.15am, 2 Mar 2024

[Normal Norm]

So in this article they mention Jack’s phone is transmitting from "a group of houses backing on to an old electricity substation" on Granby Hill. Can we locate the group of houses by finding the old substation?

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I've searched the area at length on Google Earth, without success. The article actually says "in the Granby Hills area of Hotwells" rather than the more precise "Granby Hill", which doesn't help.

 

[KittyBee]

I've searched the area at length on Google Earth, without success. The article actually says "in the Granby Hills area of Hotwells" rather than the more precise "Granby Hill", which doesn't help.

Is it the substation you’re trying to find? I think it’s fairly easy to find the substation on Granby Hill using Google Maps. It’s near the bottom of the hill, roughly opposite no.20. If you were walking up it’s on the left hand side and looks a little bit like a domestic garage with a small mast (antenna?), with warning signs on the gates.

 

[sundaaaay]

Is it the substation you’re trying to find? I think it’s fairly easy to find the substation on Granby Hill using Google Maps. It’s near the bottom of the hill, roughly opposite no.20. If you were walking up it’s on the left hand side and looks a little bit like a domestic garage with a small mast (antenna?), with warning signs on the gates.

Hmm that probably is the substation in question The article said "backing on to" but no houses are really backing on to it, because there's a car park in between, so maybe they meant facing.

 

[Officer Dibble]

It's behind a paywall. Trail of clues in mystery of missing Jack O'Sullivan

 

[trendsetter]

It's behind a paywall. Trail of clues in mystery of missing Jack O'Sullivan

Here's a link to the Mail story (not behind a paywall): https://archive.is/N174w

 

[dotr]

Mum of missing Jack O'Sullivan reveals 'renewed area of interest'

Jack's mother has taken matters into her own hands as the search for the missing student continues

www.bristolpost.co.uk

Sep 18. '24 rbbm
''The family of missing Jack O'Sullivan has hired private search dog teams, which have identified a new 'area of interest'. Jack's mother, Catherine O'Sullivan, feels compelled to take matters into her own hands, claiming that the police have not done enough in their search for her son.

The 23-year-old disappeared without a trace after he was last seen at 3.15am on Saturday, March 2, near Brunel Lock Road/Brunel Way, in Bristol. Catherine revealed that the family had employed a specialist dog team to retrace the areas from where he was last seen to the four miles back to their family home.

She reported that three dogs became 'agitated' at one location on the A370 bypass. Catherine claimed she had to wait a week for Avon and Somerset Police to 'consider' the report before they finally agreed to follow up.''

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1836436338771366249

 

[sundaaaay]

The family of missing Jack O'Sullivan has hired private search dog teams, which have identified a new 'area of interest'

The area was between where Jack was last seen on the bridge and the family home on the A370 bypass. She described it as "really hard to access and the traffic is fast flowing...It is one route home that Jack potentially could have tried to walk. My suggestion on the first day was police go and search that area - but they were just convinced he did not get that far.

That's interesting, seems like the family are really taking the case in their own hands now and I don't blame them. The planted side of the roads will have looked different at the time Jack went missing as there have been no leaves on the trees. Spring greenery could have hidden evidence, at a time when police were focused around the river theory. The thing is, how does it make sense for his phone to be located near Granby Hill if he's headed towards home, so that would imply his phone and possibly wallet may have been robbed and he walked home on foot instead.

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1837790644959326703

 

[CrackerC119]

I have been following this case for some time now. It's astonishing that the altercation is only coming to light now. I am conscious that the other person involved in the altercation could be withholding more information. I find it difficult to believe that the argument ended with a push.

If Jack left the flat without saying goodbye to his friend who was outside, that indicates that he could have either been upset or seething about something - something that happened at the party perhaps? What is really interesting to me is that several psychic readings suggested that Jack and another male came to conflict over a female at the party. Some consider psychic sourced controversial, but I've found much of what psychics say to come true, such as with the Jay Slater case.

Jack having a head injury also could impair his sense of personal safety. Was he suffering from concussion? Did he have distorted vision? Was alcohol combined with the head injury likely to cause him to lapse in to some kind of coma or *advertiser censored* his breathing?

We know that Hotwells was covered in a blanket of snow at this point. But I highly doubt it would be deep enough to conceal a human, laden with winter clothing. Could he have fallen in to the river running under Plimsoll Bridge? Would it have been iced over? Unfortunately, we don't know if the river was thoroughly searched.

It strikes me as alarming that the search area hasn't been broadened. Bristol is home to Temple Meads Railway Station, providing links to the Capital, Cornwall, Wales, the north of England, Birmingham and Scotland. It is also home to an airport. CCTV from these terminals needs to be checked before it's too late to retrieve.

Who else could have been around the area at that time of day? It's possible that some drug dealers deliver under the cover of darkness. One psychic suggested that a drug dealer car was involved in a collision with Jack, a light coloured car. Could Jack have been involved in a collision and propelled in to the water and swept out to the sea? Again, this is a possibility that needs to be investigated.

Who else could have been about on the Plimsoll Bridge? I suspect that there could have been other drunken revellers. If Jack was feeling wound up and perhaps intoxicated, could a fight have taken place? We hear in the news of "one punch killers". Could Jack have been hit too hard, combined with his earlier head injury and it sadly caused him to pass away?

Could the man in the altercation have followed Jack from the party? It is said that Jack tried to get in to a taxi, why was this? Was he just keen to get home from the cold night air or was he trying to evade someone quickly?

 

[acehard]

If I have to guess, a delayed concussion + intoxication caused disorientation and he fell in the water. They looked in the wrong place from the early cctv footage and by now he's swept away. There are other cases in the UK where they cleared a body of water and found the remains a year later some distance away. IMO

 

[sundaaaay]

From this article (Link), it seems that the stair fall and subsequent altercation was a bit humiliating for Jack, so he walked off in a bit of a huff, without saying goodbye to his female friend smoking outside. I question whether he was romantically interested in her, because this can make people do silly things.

At the point he gets to the Plimsoll Swing Bridge, he seems to have weighed his options on getting home that night and decided to cross back to the other side. Initially the reason seems to not be to say goodbye to his friend, because he is spotted on CCTV heading towards the Clifton Suspension Bridge (away from the party) and possibly to his brother's place. Only when his female friend calls him, does he turn around again heading back towards the party on CCTV, probably to say goodbye properly. But walking to the party should only a 4 minutes from where he is last spotted on CCTV, so how did he not make it back!

There are a few possibilities here. Maybe Jack did make it back to the party and something else happened. Maybe she has a boyfriend, leading to an altercation with him, or giving her a reason to lie about the timescale of events to protect her relationship. Maybe she rejected him which upset him greatly?

Either way, I suspect there is more to this story.

 

[CrackerC119]

From this article (Link), it seems that the stair fall and subsequent altercation was a bit humiliating for Jack, so he walked off in a bit of a huff, without saying goodbye to his female friend smoking outside. I question whether he was romantically interested in her, because this can make people do silly things.

At the point he gets to the Plimsoll Swing Bridge, he seems to have weighed his options on getting home that night and decided to cross back to the other side. Initially the reason seems to not be to say goodbye to his friend, because he is spotted on CCTV heading towards the Clifton Suspension Bridge (away from the party) and possibly to his brother's place. Only when his female friend calls him, does he turn around again heading back towards the party on CCTV, probably to say goodbye properly. But walking to the party should only a 4 minutes from where he is last spotted on CCTV, so how did he not make it back!

There are a few possibilities here. Maybe Jack did make it back to the party and something else happened. Maybe she has a boyfriend, leading to an altercation with him, or giving her a reason to lie about the timescale of events to protect her relationship. Maybe she rejected him which upset him greatly?

Either way, I suspect there is more to this story.

I hadn't thought that he may have made his way back to the party. I find it very strange that his so-called friends left it to his family to get a PI to find out information about the party, rather than voluntarily coming forward with information to help.

 

[acehard]

I hadn't thought that he may have made his way back to the party. I find it very strange that his so-called friends left it to his family to get a PI to find out information about the party, rather than voluntarily coming forward with information to help.

If he went back, I think he would be caught on cctv. It's just hard to search in water. Nicola Bulley was found 1 mile downstream by a passerby with a dog, weeks later after the officials gave up. All the technology and experts didn't help. Poor guy is somewhere close by IMO

 

[Dotta]

I haven't followed this case closely,
checking only from time to time and posting links I came upon...
but
I have read enough reports in my country
about intoxicated men leaving parties at night and disappearing.

And...
whenever they were near,
or even not so near,
the bodies of water, mainly rivers,
well...., unfortunately,
they were eventually found there.
Drowned.


As if rivers were magnets,
luring these men into their depths.

Of course,
I hope I might be mistaken in this case.

JMO

 

[Konstantin]

If he went back, I think he would be caught on cctv. It's just hard to search in water. Nicola Bulley was found 1 mile downstream by a passerby with a dog, weeks later after the officials gave up. All the technology and experts didn't help. Poor guy is somewhere close by IMO

Hopefully his family can get data regarding his phone although it might not be as helpful as they hope. The Find my Friends app is not always very reliable particularly if the phone is not connected to wifi or is in a location where there are not many iphones around. It might have "pinged" in a location but that was just very approximate. The police did search the little substation, it seems. But the data they have is certainly not enough to get a warrant to search a specific other location.
I imagine his family might have knocked on doors.
Jack might have dropped his phone near water and in the dark gone to try to rescue it -- maybe without seeing the water nearby or thinking it was farther than it was.
The information from the party is interesting but it is not likely to have any bearing on him going missing. It seems like a minor exchange of words between two drunk and tired young people who didn't really know each other at a party.

 

[callmehenry]

I haven't followed this case closely,
checking only from time to time and posting links I came upon...
but
I have read enough reports in my country
about intoxicated men leaving parties at night and disappearing.

And...
whenever they were near,
or even not so near,
the bodies of water, mainly rivers,
well...., unfortunately,
they were eventually found there.
Drowned.


As if rivers were magnets,
luring these men into their depths.

Of course,
I hope I might be mistaken in this case.

JMO

So why has his body not come to the surface by now?? Why is his phone seemingly elsewhere and not in water?

 

[StillDiggin]

Expert who hopes he can find student Jack O'Sullivan

More than six months after Jack O'Sullivan's disappearance his family are no closer to knowing what happened - and in their desperation it is to Sergeant Charlie Hedges that they turned for help.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Dotta]

So why has his body not come to the surface by now?? Why is his phone seemingly elsewhere and not in water?

Hmmm...

He might have stumbled/slipped
(the weather conditions seemed icy)
and dropped the phone.
Somebody could have picked it up later.

He might have been swept away in water.

IDK.

But I remember similar cases in my country,
ppl calling foul play,
but the bodies were later found in the rivers,
some near, some far away.
Even after several months.

JMO

 

[sundaaaay]

So why has his body not come to the surface by now?? Why is his phone seemingly elsewhere and not in water?

The water is very murky and the river is extremely tidal, so it would be very difficult to locate as it may be in the sea. I still believe the water is the most probable answer unfortunately, but its important to keep an open mind. It's very easy for everyone to jump at the conclusion that he's in the water when you look at the area on Google Maps. But we know he crossed the bridge successfully and the phone being on hours later is odd.

Leah Croucher went missing near a lake and they spend ages looking for her in it, but she was found in a house nearby.