Dear LPG,

I have a friend whose daughter has been missing for more than 10 years.  I suspect that most people know at least one other person who has experienced what it is like to have someone they know and love go missing.  I read recently that about 250,000 people go missing every year and I am sure that birthdays and Christmas time is the hardest for their families and friends.

I cannot imagine what it must be like because as hard as it is when someone dies,  not knowing where a loved one is must be even harder.   Many pensioners will have experienced that feeling of not knowing the whereabouts of a parent or other family member who was also a member of the armed forces, and who at some point went missing in action, but more recently the highest percentage of people that go missing are younger than 18 years old.  The people that make up those statistics are all sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, cousins or grandchildren.

I have read statistics on line, which show that, on average, in the UK each day people are found to be missing.

Doubtless it is likely that a long term missing person will now have a new identity, and often, a new family who knows nothing about their former life, but it just occurs to me that if there is anyone who decided to go missing some time ago, it would be such a lovely Christmas present for their family to get a message just to say that they are Ok. 

Just a thought...

PF, Brockley

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