As Mikey Is Not Here To Enter This Thread, I Felt I Should.

[bednobs]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-43539468
do you think it's right to now hand this over to "cold cases"?
i still think they'll find him (alive) somewhere

[EDDIE51]

Naomi, the signal from his phone stopped at Barton Mills Layby exactly where the first stop of the lorry was. Until then it had been tracked along the only route suitable for a large lorry from Bury St Edmunds .
I don't know why he did not use his phone to call for help, but it is known he had been drinking very heavily . He was probably drunk as well as disorientated and just not thinking straight.

[naomi24]

I know, but perhaps his phone fell out of his pocket when he was in the lorry and carried on travelling long after he hopped out - possibly at the traffic lights at the junction of the A134 and the A14 - or even at lights nearer to the town centre.

[Jackdaw33]

I have no knowledge of the area but Eddie does, and on this occasion I believe he is right. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

[naomi24]

I know the area, Jackdaw.

[EDDIE51]

^ he was also known to climb into bins and skips to sleep off the drink.
No trace of him was found at the landfill nor were any of his clothes or his phone. It now can never be found for certain what actually happened to him . But the theory I have outlined fits what is known and is the most plausible explanation.

[naomi24]

Eddie, it's not necessarily plausible that he's anywhere near Barton Mills - for the reasons I've given. Barton Mills is a long way from Bury Edmunds - and there's a lot of open land in between. I'd guess that he left that lorry - minus his phone - nearer to Bury St Edmunds.

[EDDIE51]

Naomi, yes I agree your theory is possible, but mine is the one that best fits all the known facts.

[naomi24]

Why? Because the phone was traced to Barton Mills it doesn't follow that that's where he left the lorry. He could have woken up as the lorry started off in the town and not realising his phone had fallen out his pocket, jumped out at the first opportunity at any one of numerous sets of traffic lights en route - long before the lorry reached Barton Mills. I think it's a mistake to assume he left the vehicle at Barton Mills.

[tamborine]

Decomposed bodies are soon dug up by scavanging wildlife.

[EDDIE51]

I have not seen the trace records for the phone. But reports were that it did not stop moving all the way from Bury to Barton Mills.

[naomi24]

That would be an achievement indeed, Eddie. I know of no vehicle that could do that journey without stopping - even if it's only at junctions.

[Bigbad]

Yes, I think it’s right to hand it over as a cold case.
As tragic as it is for his family, he was an adult who chose to go out and drink way too much, and as a result, has probably met a sticky end.
There doesn’t seem to be any foul play, and other missing persons don’t get the same amount of attention or resources.

[EDDIE51]

'Cold case' means the investigation is suspended unless new information becomes available. I think that it is the correct course of action in this case. I can't see what more can be achieved here unless new evidence turns up . Obviously without a body it is not impossible he is still alive.

[Jackdaw33]

Not impossible, but extremely unlikely.