UK UK- Ali Durrani, 32, U of York student, went for walk to 'clear his head', last seen talking to a woman at a bus stop, Birmingham, 6 Feb; 2025.

[dotr]

Feb 5, 2026
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[Inspector Evans]

I live in Birmingham and was watching the local news (Midlands today) and this was the lead story this evening.

Never heard of this case before and pretty disheartening to learn he's been missing a full year.

As said on last few pages the report had interview with his parents and was summarised he went for a early afternoon walk to "clear his head." Was then caught on CCTV around half 5 that day speaking to someone at a bus stop and then his phone pinged near University Hospital later that evening.

So he was certainly in the local area still for many hours after so clearly didn't just pop out with the intention of coming home quickly.

I live in North Birmingham (Sutton Coldfield) but know the Stirchley area pretty well so can only think he did get on a bus or even the cross city line which is right by the bus stop as that would take him in the vicinity of University Hospital.

Did they scan CCTV of New Street station that evening to see if he popped up at any point? Or even a bus as clearly if he was hovering around bus stops then the intention must've been to use some form of public transport to get somewhere else in the Midlands region. Or Beyond.

Sad case. There is also very long stretch of canal that can take you well out of Birmingham if you walk on it for hours so perhaps he might've slept rough along it and then something regrettable happened?

 

[Inspector Evans]

Just read the report, the bus stop sighting was seen the day AFTER he left home for his walk.

So surely the biggest question is where he spent the previous night? Home of an associate, canal, somewhere else?

Similar to Andrew Gosden case as he withdrew £200 + from his account so that money must've been used for something, probably onward travel.

I would've been checking CCTV of all local train stations from that evening.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

Never heard of this case before and pretty disheartening to learn he's been missing a full year.

Unfortunately, once someone has been missing for 12 months it's statistically very unlikely that they will be found. There are a few who turn up years, sometimes even decades, later but those are few and far between.

 

[dotr]

October 25, 2025 re-post

Ali went for a walk to clear his head - but what happened next is a mystery

His family are waiting for a knock on the door.

metro.co.uk

''The 32-year-old had never disappeared before or showed signs of self harm and wasn’t in any trouble. So why hasn’t Ali come home?

‘There’s no evidence of death anywhere. He didn’t take his passport, or his phone charger. We don’t think he’d have killed himself…We’ve asked: “Would he just leave? Did he just want to leave his life and go somewhere else?” We’re pretty sure he wouldn’t have because he was so family-orientated’, his aunt Naureen Mohammed told Metro from her home in London.

Ali had been out of work for a year, which had left him feeling anxious, but with plans to set up his own business, the family does not believe he would have harmed himself. ‘We don’t think he just walked out of his life. So could he have come to some harm?’ she asks.''

 

[Inspector Evans]

Blue backpack aswell when he was last seen.

With the withdrawn money he certainly had plans to travel and go somewhere else imo. Further reading suggests something speculative sightings in London in the last year as he had family connections.