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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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.''

 

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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.

www.business-live.co.uk

''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.''

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https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-midlands/news/news/2025/october/appeal-for-information-to-help-find-man-missing-since-1983/

''That is the last confirmed sighting we have of Michael to this day.

Through enquiries over the last 40 years, we are confident Michael made it back to the mainland, making contact with his family via phone from the towns of Dalwhinnie and Tyndrum in the Highlands.

The last contact Michael had with his family was in a phone call when he informed them he would head for the English border to come home.

This was the last time anyone heard from Michael, who worked at a factory in Birmingham.

There were a number of appeals in the media over the months and years following Michael's disappearance.

Michael's father, who was a lifelong Birmingham City fan along with his son, continued to attend games for 20 years after his disappearance in the hope his son would reappear.

Officers from our Missing Person Investigation Team are now appealing to anyone who might remember Michael and know more about who he was and what might have led to his disappearance.''

''PC Shaun Reeve said: "Initially it was thought that Michael was last seen on the Isle of Skye, but we know from police reports in Scotland that he was seen at least two or three more times on the mainland.

"A police officer reported him appearing confused and being put on a bus to Glasgow, but what happened to him after he arrived back on the mainland is a mystery still.

"We're hoping anyone who worked with Michael might remember him and be able to shed any light on his personality and his character, as there is still a lot we don't know about him.''