UK UK - Alexander Sloley, 16, Enfield, London, 2 Aug 2008

[TheLondonEye]

I live in an area connected to this young man's disappearance.
There have been rumblings lately that Alex had connections to and was involved with drug dealers locally. Allegedly an open secret amongst people that knew him at the time and the police are also aware of these rumours. So entirely plausible that he fell foul of someone and his body has been concealed or disposed of.

For those that don't know, Edmonton is a really rough area of North London now and was even worse back then.

 

[Tortoise]

A poster has just been put up at my local train station in north London, by Met Police, offering a £10,000 reward for information regarding this young man's disappearance.

I found this recent article giving a tiny bit of new information -

"At first she thought her son must have gone to stay with friends. But when he didn’t come home for his 17th birthday two days later, and then missed hers a few weeks after that, she went to the police. [...]

It was more than two years before she says police made contact again. “You report your child missing and no one gives a damn,” she says. “It took them two years and three months before they contacted me. Had they done something earlier, maybe we’d have answers by now.” [...]

‘My son Alexander walked out of the door with no wallet and only the clothes on his back. He never returned’

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I think it's obvious he was with the wrong crowd and something happened to him. And police at the time weren't interested in trying to unravel who did what and what happened to him. He was just a 16-year-old kid, but this is how missing teenagers have long been treated around the world. It wouldn't have been an easy investigation. But it's what any family with a missing child or teenager deserves.

His family deserves a team that's still committed to his case, and I hope the reward being offered helps bring answers.

 

[Officer Dibble]

I think it's obvious he was with the wrong crowd and something happened to him. And police at the time weren't interested in trying to unravel who did what and what happened to him. He was just a 16-year-old kid, but this is how missing teenagers have long been treated around the world. It wouldn't have been an easy investigation. But it's what any family with a missing child or teenager deserves.

His family deserves a team that's still committed to his case, and I hope the reward being offered helps bring answers.

So upsetting