Presumed Located UK - Alex Dighton, 25, left all possesions bar wallet, wiped laptop history, left concerning note, Preston, 15 May 2022

[MsMiniSleuth]

Have you seen 25-year-old Alex Dighton who is missing from Preston.

Alex was last seen in the Bairstow Street area of the city on May 15th.

He is 5ft 10", with a shaven head and a reddish/brown beard. We do not know what he was last seen wearing, however he often wears tweed suits and a cowboy hat.

Anybody who has information about Alex’s whereabouts is asked to email forecontrolroom@lancashire.police or call 101, quoting log 1291 of May 19, 2022.

For immediate sightings call 999.

https://www.facebook.com/PrestonPolice/photos/a.165878103460460/5022818424433046

Post from sister

https://m.facebook.com/groups/161601211044884/permalink/1189643441573984/

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

If you click on this link it seems he has been spotted in Aberdare.

https://www.facebook.com/2162817380506273/photos/a.2162884733832871/5144792918975356

Then click on his sister Heather's profile, she says police have dropped case as him being 'missing'... and more besides.

 

[bykerladi]

Questions: 1. If LE has a missing persons report, and they find the missing person, do they do a psych welfare check before just walking away? 2. If LE has a missing persons report on an ADULT, why contact the adult's parents instead of the person filing the missing persons report? AND why tell the parents of the ADULT where the missing person is?

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

Questions: 1. If LE has a missing persons report, and they find the missing person, do they do a psych welfare check before just walking away? 2. If LE has a missing persons report on an ADULT, why contact the adult's parents instead of the person filing the missing persons report? AND why tell the parents of the ADULT where the missing person is?

1. Police are not medically trained. If they assess the person is not a danger to themselves or others, looks clean and is feeding thenselves, that's it basically: as far as they're concerned, the person is okay, and will drop further involvement.

However, this is often not the end of the case for the person. I remember one such case I put on WS, of a troubled young woman in her 20s, caught on CCTV going around the country, from one city to another and acting bizarrely without reason. Police then left it as as far as they were concerned when I believe they made contact with her, she was not in danger. The woman's friends and family were still worried sick over her erratic behaviour and the fear she may come to some harm. They continued the search themselves. Fortunately the woman was located and was helped to obtain the psychiatric help she needed.

2. In this case we have here, the police seem to have informed the 'biological mother', as his sister reports. There sounds like there could well be a lot of history and issues that are not public. I don't know if she is perhaps considered next of kin? In that context then I could see, yes, she would be informed her son had been located and was not deemed to be in any immediate danger.

 

[bykerladi]

Is that normal procedure? When a missing adult is located, they call next of kin? In all the cases I've read on here, if the missing person doesn't want to be found LE just says they're found without more information. Seems unusual to me to tell a family member the missing person's location without permission.

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

His sister has posted (Tuesday) that Alex has made contact and is safe and well, so we may have police confirmation later.

 

[MsMiniSleuth]

His sister has posted (Tuesday) that Alex has made contact and is safe and well, so we may have police confirmation later.

Police appeals not removed but family confirm found safe.