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

[NoMercy]

I personally have always believed he's alive out there.

[ludwig]

I don't understand how they can say this...

// However, after the search the force said they were "content" he was not in the landfill areas.//

Where do they suppose he is then?

[naomi24]

It's a mystery.

[ludwig]

Odd then that they don't just say 'We haven't found him in the landfill, and we're not going to look any more', rather than being 'content' he's not there.

[Jackdaw33]

How can he still be alive without any money? If he is not in the landfill site he is probably in one of the many ditches surrounding the area, as has been suggested often before.

[naomi24]

Perhaps they mean they've searched very thoroughly, which I think they have - they searched for months - and that there is no hope of finding him there.

[NoMercy]

JD, he's probably resourceful enough to survive without his flexible friend!

[anneasquith]

I think he is in the landfill site, and has been since the beginning.

[naomi24]

I suggested he'd be found in a ditch. It is a very rural area - there are woods not far away too. Goodness knows what's happened to him.

[Jackdaw33]

I would have thought that in this day and age it would be extremely difficult to arrange a disappearance without leaving any sort of 'footprint'. Unless evidence emerges to the contrary I fear that he is the victim of misadventure.

[ludwig]

This report from October 2017 seems to rule out an escape from the lorry en-route..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-41802293

[emmie]

i don't believe he is alive, somehow you just don't go missing, even though i know many people do, in his case i fear he is dead.

[naomi24]

I wonder if he was ever in a lorry. I know his phone was tracked, but that's not proof positive that he was with it.

[Jackdaw33]

I agree with Emmie. Anyone who 'disappears', if still alive, will be found eventually.

[naomi24]

Perhaps he will be.... eventually.

[EDDIE51]

An entire Police team has spent 27 weeks searching the Milton tip. So I really do not think he was ever there.
I have said before, I think he did get into the skip to sleep and the skip was picked up by the bin lorry. Then he woke up to find he was in a moving lorry. As soon as the lorry stopped moving,which was at Barton Mills layby he got out. Disorientated and unaware as to where he was he started walking across the fields. It was dark and he fell into a drainage ditch and drowned . I think his body is still somewhere around Barton Mills at the bottom of a drainage ditch.
Baron Mills is on the way to the Milton landfill on the direct route from Bury St Edmunds. Baron Mills is open flat fields with many water filled drainage ditches. I think he is dead but due to the huge area of Barton Mills his body will not be found for many years if ever. A full search of Barton Mills would take months if not years and involve hundreds of people. Even if it was done ,the body could have floated out of the drainage ditch into the river and then on into the sea at the Wash. I know Bury St Edmunds , Barton Mills and the Milton landfill tip well . My theory is based on what I know of my local area .

[naomi24]

Eddie, you don't know where the Lorry first stopped moving. He could have hopped out at the first set of traffic lights.

I think someone will eventually stumble across his remains probably in a ditch.

[Jackdaw33]

That makes sense to me, Eddie.

[EDDIE51]

annasquith .I know the Milton landfill site very well ,it is only 12 miles from me. I have been past it many times while the search was going on and I know that every single inch of it has been turned over and checked more than once . He was NEVER there.
But Barton Mills is many square miles of flat open fields with thousands of water filled drainage ditches. I still think that a ditch in Barton Mills is where his now decomposed body is or was . No proof, but the most obvious explanation is normally the correct one.

[naomi24]

Eddie, if he hopped out of the lorry before it stopped at the lay-by you mention, he could be a long way from Barton Mills. I don't think we can assume he's anywhere near Barton Mills. He might be, but then again he might not.