Found Deceased UK - Adam Perkins, 24, last seen around 8pm leaving home in Sheffield to go camping, car located Great Ayton, N Yorks, 20 March 2023

[MsMiniSleuth]

MISSING PERSON APPEAL

Urgent appeal to locate missing Sheffield man, Adam Perkins who is thought to be in the Great Ayton area.

24-year-old Adam was last seen and heard from on Monday 20 March at around 8pm when he left his home address in Sheffield to go camping.

Officers have since located his car in the Great Ayton area and are conducting searches to find Adam. He has visited the area previously to go caving.

He is described as around 5ft 10in, with a slim build, a light beard and brown hair.

It's thought he was wearing brown/khaki trousers and a black fleece jacket.

Any immediate sightings of Adam should be reported to North Yorkshire Police on 999. Please quote reference 12230051876.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02qYZGvd4ik9cWafyEMhiusZpwsSB21Z5R14rbJ6xMeWNVRKJteRdzmhdFPz37jihTl&id=100064356987125

 

[starlightstarbright]

Leaving home at 8pm to go camping seems quite an odd time at this time of year. It certainly would have been dark already by then, so not the easiest time to set up a camp unless he was planning to bivvy in a cave or some other sheltered spot.

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

Leaving home at 8pm to go camping seems quite an odd time at this time of year. It certainly would have been dark already by then, so not the easiest time to set up a camp unless he was planning to bivvy in a cave or some other sheltered spot.

It does rather, which might suggest there is more going on here.

 

[Darling136]

Body found

Body found in search for man who went camping in but never came home

Adam Perkins, 24, was reported missing on March 20

www.examinerlive.co.uk

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

22:08 24/03/2023


Police searching for missing Adam Perkins from Sheffield have sadly found the body of a man.

Officers searching in the Great Ayton area found the body earlier this evening (Friday 24 March 2023).

Although he has not been formally identified, Adam's family have been informed.

Thank you to everyone who shared our appeal.

https://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/news/north-yorkshire/news/missing/2023/03-march/body-found-in-search-for-missing-sheffield-man-ng/

 

[LemonMint]

Rest in peace, Adam My heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.

 

[StillDiggin]

Cavers with 'gut feeling' of missing man's location speak of tragic search

Adam Perkins body was recovered from a mine near Great Ayton

www.gazettelive.co.uk

 

[seasideForest]

Cavers with 'gut feeling' of missing man's location speak of tragic search

Adam Perkins body was recovered from a mine near Great Ayton

www.gazettelive.co.uk

Very courageous and admirable of the cavers to go in.

 

[evilwise]

Cavers with 'gut feeling' of missing man's location speak of tragic search

Adam Perkins body was recovered from a mine near Great Ayton

www.gazettelive.co.uk

Usually in these kind of threads it's suicide but this article gives me the impression that it was an accident. It seems to me that these mine exploring hobbyists suspected, based on where he has told his family he would be camping, that he had gone into the mine and been overcome by hypoxia which he may have been unaware of and which is much more dangerous to solo spelunkers. Even at the beginning of the article I expected it to say he was at the bottom of a shaft having fallen but no, he just went too deep without ventilation/oxygen.