Martin Joyce, then 29, went missing from Manchester on 5 September 1999, after giving his sister Mary a lift and then heading towards Manchester's Ancoats area for a night out
Greater Manchester Police said that officers do not know exactly what happened to Mr Joyce on the night he vanished but information received a few years ago has led them to believe that he was murdered after being assaulted at a Manchester pub.
At one stage it was reported that Martin was seen in Scotland. Then it was said, in 2016, that he was buried under the Bank of England. Detectives even dug it up, but that too came to nothing.
The police force said that possible sightings of Mr Joyce had been investigated in Scotland, Kent and London but that even so, Manchester in September 1999 remains the last place where it can be proved that he was alive.
Nonetheless, officers still believe the answer to the case could lie in that pub, now closed, at Pollard Street, Ancoats.
Help us find Martin Joyce
'We talk about him every day' - 20 years on, the heartbroken family of missing Martin Joyce say they won't give up hope
Greater Manchester Police said that officers do not know exactly what happened to Mr Joyce on the night he vanished but information received a few years ago has led them to believe that he was murdered after being assaulted at a Manchester pub.
At one stage it was reported that Martin was seen in Scotland. Then it was said, in 2016, that he was buried under the Bank of England. Detectives even dug it up, but that too came to nothing.
The police force said that possible sightings of Mr Joyce had been investigated in Scotland, Kent and London but that even so, Manchester in September 1999 remains the last place where it can be proved that he was alive.
Nonetheless, officers still believe the answer to the case could lie in that pub, now closed, at Pollard Street, Ancoats.
Help us find Martin Joyce
'We talk about him every day' - 20 years on, the heartbroken family of missing Martin Joyce say they won't give up hope
