I go back and forth several times a day regarding my thoughts on what's happened to Richard. At first I thought definitely suicide, but the police haven't found anything, not a clue or trace after 4 days of combing through the forest. And I think they would have found something by now, as I doubt he would have got so far into it in the pitch black darkness that the police wouldn't have found his body by now.
So, then I suspected a planned meeting gone wrong. But Richard be naive enough to meet someone at gone midnight near Epping Forest? He spent plenty of money and time to get there, so must be important to him.
But the police have found no clues on his phone or laptops, which is also concerning.
Does this point to evidence if a burner phone, as it's been seen on CCTV he was looking down at a phone after it was known his regular phone was turned off.
A burner phone points to evidence of trying to hide something, and then that makes me wonder if it is a county lines drug thing.
If it was meeting someone for gaming, woukd he not take his own controller and some of his own equipment? That bag he's got is tiny, you can't fit much besides a phone in that.
And again, gaming in Epping Forest?
I know there are a few houses on the road leading from the pub where he was dropped off, but I'm sure they've been questioned and it's not one of them he was going to.
So, at this point, I strongly suspect it was a meeting of some sorts. He's been picked up by a car, potentially, I think and driven off. CCTV will hopefully provide clues, and a resukt, just as it did in the Sarah Everard case.