UK UK- Michael Bell, 27, #3255DMUK, Isle of Skye, Scotland, May 1983

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3255DMUK - Michael Bell

3255DMUK - Michael Bell​

Name: Michael Bell
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: May 1983
Location Last Seen: Isle of Skye, Scotland, United Kingdom

Physical Description​

Date of Birth: Circa 1956
Age: 27 years old
Race: White
Gender: Male
Height: 5'9"
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Auburn
Eye Color: Green
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Slim build.

Identifiers​

Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance​

Michael Bell went missing in 1983 following a camping holiday on the Isle of Skye, he had decided to leave a week early after becoming unhappy.

He phoned his dad in Birmingham, for the last time from a phone box, saying he would be home the next day and has not been heard from since. The last phone call was believed to have been made from the Dalwinnie area.

He left all his luggage behind at the campsite. According to his family he was a loner and spent a lot of time at home. He was thought to be depressed.

 

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2013 rbbm.

I have very faint hope of seeing Michael again

Kenneth Bell sits on the edge of his seat when he goes to a Birmingham City football match.

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''Kenneth Bell sits on the edge of his seat when he goes to a Birmingham City football match.

But it is the faces of the fans, not the people on the pitch, that the 77-year-old is intently watching - because he hopes that somewhere among the crowd will be Michael, his son who went missing 22 years ago.''

''The electrical shop storeman, who was 27, vanished while on a camping trip to the Isle of Skye with a friend on May 14, 1983.

In his usual way, Michael had called his parents to let them know where he was. From a phone box in Dalwhinnie, in the Scottish Highlands, he told them about a row with his friend and his plans to return home.

Then the phone went dead. Police in Sheldon, Birmingham, where Michael lived with his parents, investigated the out-of-character disappearance with their colleagues in Scotland. Social services, the National Missing Persons Helpline, newspapers, television shows and radio stations tried to help. But to no avail.

Yesterday, four days after Michael would have celebrated his 50th birthday, Mr Bell walked from Birmingham's Gas Street Basin to Bromsgrove's Tardebigge Lock to show his son that he had not been forgotten.''

Mr Bell, a retired industrial chemist, said: "I remember going back to work when Michael had been missing for more than a week and having a bit of a weep.''
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"My son was a very keen Blues fan. I have been to the matches for 22 years hoping to see him in the crowd. Sometimes you tell yourself not to even look.

"It is just so out of character. He was always at home and we were quite a close family. I remember him as a lad going with us on holiday to stay with his grandma in Bognor.''