Trigger Warning: This content is for mature audiences only. Within this video are references to paedophile rings, Child Murders and suicide that may be upsetting to some viewer.
Case (1) Reece Colins: 15 years old was reported missing after failing to return home one evening in 1985, his parents were told not to worry as he had not been gone 24 hrs. After several more hours and additional reports to the police Reece's father Roy set out with the family dog to search for him.
While searching local parkland the dog led Roy to a cluster of trees where he found Reece hanging by a belt from a tree. Initially, the case was ruled as a death by experimentation, but the family claim evidence does not support this. An inquest three years later overturned the initial finding and Death ruled an open verdict instead. In this video, I discuss other theories on what could have happened to Reece.
Case (2) Kevin Hicks, 16, went missing in 1986 while walking home from the local shop in Addiscombe, Croydon. On 2 March 1986,
he spent a normal day with his family at their home in Sissinghurst Road, Addiscombe. At around 8.30pm he told his mum he needed to buy some eggs for his O-level home economics exam the next day. He left with £1 and headed off to Sperrings community shop, a couple of minutes’ walk away in Lower Addiscombe Road. Kevin was last seen by someone who knew him at 10pm in Shirley Road, walking in the general direction of home. He was never seen again, and his parents Derek and Terry died without knowing what had happened to their son.
By 2016 his only surviving relative was his sister Alexandra Hicks, living in Sutton. Detective Inspector John McQuade, who was leading the investigation, said looking at the incident with fresh eyes he recognised signs that the boy was groomed.
Kevin had been receiving expensive gifts in the weeks leading up to his disappearance, he did not tell his parents about these gifts. This was discovered after he went missing.
In 2017 the Metropolitan Police issued a new appeal to the public and offered a £20,000 reward for information leading to a conviction. John McQuade, said: “Kevin simply disappeared that night and was never seen nor heard of again."
Case (3) Lee Boxell (we have made a video on this case: it can be found here: https://youtu.be/4PIrhOlg3-8) Lee disappeared from the London Borough of Sutton in England on 10 September 1988, aged 15. He was last seen in Sutton High Street. Lee attended an unofficial youth club in the annexe of St Dunstan's Church in Cheam, known as "The Shed", which was previously unknown to the police. Following extensive inquires the police found out that paedophiles were operating in the area at the time Boxell disappeared.
William Lambert, the St Dunstan's Church graveyard digger who ran The Shed, was jailed for 11 years in 2011, when he was aged 75, after sexually abusing four girls who attended the club. Detectives were also investigating the possibility that Lee himself was sexually assaulted and later died. In this video, I discuss other theories on what could have happened to Kevin and Lee. These will include references of the paedophile ring “The Dirty Dozen Gang”.
There is plenty of evidence of grooming rings operating in that area of London around this time, Essex and Met Police were even carrying out an investigation titled Operation Stranger, to identify and break up these groups.
Could all these boys have fallen foul of these kinds of predators and was the angle fully investigated at the time?
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