{"id":160146,"date":"2022-07-11T14:23:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T14:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=160146"},"modified":"2022-07-11T14:23:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T14:23:36","slug":"father-of-missing-andrew-gosden-reveals-huge-hole-in-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/father-of-missing-andrew-gosden-reveals-huge-hole-in-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of missing Andrew Gosden reveals &apos;huge hole&apos; in his life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Father reveals &#8216;huge hole&#8217; left in his life after son disappeared 15 years ago aged 14, and his fears the boy was sold into a sex gang<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tortured Kevin Gosden, 51, was writing on the day that his son Andrew turns 29\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrew was just 14 when he vanished after he left his house in Doncaster<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Was last seen on CCTV after arriving by train at King&#8217;s Cross station in London\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The father of a boy who vanished 15 years ago, sparking fears he was sold into a sex gang, has spoken out on his birthday to say the loss has left a &#8216;huge hole&#8217; in his life.<\/p>\n<p>Tortured Kevin Gosden, 51, writing on the day that his son Andrew turns 29, said he hadn&#8217;t lost &#8216;hope of reunion&#8217; despite years of searching without answers.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew was just 14 when he vanished after he left his house in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, withdrew \u00a3200 and bought a one-way ticket to London.<\/p>\n<p>The Straight A* student was last seen on CCTV at King&#8217;s Cross station in September 2007, but his reason for heading to the capital and his whereabouts since remain a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Yorkshire Police detectives arrested two men, aged 45 and 38, assisted by officers from the Metropolitan Police, on December 8 last year.<\/p>\n<p>And they later confirmed it would take &#8216;six to 12 months&#8217; to review electronic devices seized from the pair &#8211; who were held on suspicion of kidnapping and human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/01\/11\/14\/52799603-10390809-image-m-35_1641913046557.jpg\" height=\"596\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The father of a boy who vanished 15 years ago, sparking fears he was sold into a sex gang, has spoken out on his birthday to say the loss has left a &#8216;huge hole&#8217; in his life. Tortured Kevin Gosden, 51, writing on the day that his son Andrew turns 29, said he hadn&#8217;t lost &#8216;hope of reunion&#8217; despite years of searching without answers. Above: Andrew Gosden seen on CCTV at Kings Cross station\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/01\/11\/15\/52799591-10390809-image-a-44_1641913822918.jpg\" height=\"721\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tortured Kevin Gosden, 51, writing on the day that his son Andrew turns 29, said he hadn&#8217;t lost &#8216;hope of reunion&#8217; despite years of searching without answers. Above: Mr Gosden with his son, then aged 14, and daughter Charlotte<\/p>\n<p>But writing yesterday, Mr Gosden led a touching tribute to Andrew, who has now sadly been missing for more years than he has been alive.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;Andrew is still missing. As we reach his 29th birthday, we realise that he has been gone for longer than he was here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The intensity of his not being here with us continues every day, a huge hole in our lives and our family<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;For me, I think the one thing we cannot lose is hope. Hope of reunion, hope of news, hope of an answer of any kind.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Andrew disappeared on September 14, 2007, after he boarded a train from Doncaster to London.<\/p>\n<p>He was filmed on CCTV when he arrived at Kings Cross station.<\/p>\n<p>That was the last known sighting of Andrew, and since then no information about his movements has been corroborated by police, despite a massive manhunt.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years since his disappearance, Andrew&#8217;s family has campaigned hard to try to find what had happened to him.<\/p>\n<p>A search was made of the River Thames at one stage, and experts even drew up artists&#8217; impressions of what he would look like as an adult to try to update the search.<\/p>\n<p>His face has featured in campaigns all across the country, with missing persons&#8217; charities publicising his case everywhere from on milk cartons to buses.<\/p>\n<p>And following the arrest of two men late last year, South Yorkshire Police&#8217;s senior investigating officer on the case, Detective Inspector Andy Knowles , said his team was in &#8216;close contact&#8217; with Andrew&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;Our priority at this time is supporting Andrew&#8217;s family while we work through this new line of enquiry in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We are in close contact with them and they ask that their privacy is respected as our investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have made numerous appeals over the years to find out where Andrew is and what happened to him when he disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I would encourage anyone with any information they have not yet reported to come forward.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gosden added he would not wish to comment on the investigation until it had been brought to a conclusion following the arrests.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;We understand that police investigations will take several months to complete.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So until that is the case, we do not know what to think and do not wish to speculate on any possible outcome.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>Timeline from the day Andrew Gosden disappeared\u00a0<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew left his home in the Balby area of Doncaster on 14 September 2007<\/li>\n<li>Once his parents had left for work he returned home and changed out of his school uniform\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>He was seen at 8:30am as he headed down Littlemoor Lane, Balby, towards Westfield Park\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>An hour later, he withdrew \u00a3200 and boarded a London-bound train at Doncaster station<\/li>\n<li>Andrew was last seen on CCTV at Kings Cross station at around 11.20am the same day &#8211;\u00a0there have been no other confirmed sightings<\/li>\n<li>His family started campaigning to find what had happened to him<\/li>\n<li>Andrew&#8217;s family have kept his room as he left it and not changed the locks on the house as it is believed he took his key\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In September 2009, the family released computer-generated images of what Andrew might look like aged sixteen, to mark the second year of his disappearance<\/li>\n<li>In 2016, his parents appealed for information on BBC&#8217;s Panorama\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>To mark the tenth anniversary of Andrew&#8217;s disappearance in 2017, the charity Missing People made Andrew the face of their &#8216;Find Every Child&#8217; campaign &#8211; featuring on billboards and advertisements throughout the UK<\/li>\n<li>On 12 September 2017, it was announced that police were launching a fresh appeal<\/li>\n<li>In July 2018, to mark Andrew&#8217;s 25th birthday, two updated age progression photographs were released by the family<\/li>\n<li>In October 2019, another updated image of Gosden was released\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>During an episode on BBC&#8217;s Crimewatch Live &#8211; aired in March 2020 &#8211; Andrew&#8217;s father Kevin made fresh appeal for information<\/li>\n<li>Andrew&#8217;s family launch pre-Christmas appeal in November 2021 and said they &#8216;will never give up hope that they will one day find him&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11002439\/Father-missing-Andrew-Gosden-reveals-huge-hole-life-15-years-disappearance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father reveals &#8216;huge hole&#8217; 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