The bright and intelligent Andrew Gosden was last seen on CCTV at King's Cross Station on September 14 2007. As Kevin Gosden prepares to mark the 15th Christmas without his son, time has done nothing to dim the ‘gut-wrenching’ pain he still feels.
The dad of missing Andrew Gosden has described how the pain is still raw, 15 years on from the disappearance of his son
‘This time of year is always difficult,’ he said. ‘We have got into the habit of lighting a candle on days like Christmas and Andrew’s birthday just to signify a little hope of finding out what happened to him. Andrew Gosden has been described by his family as a bright and intelligent boy who had no known reason to go missing Andrew, who would be 29 now, returned from school to the family home in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, while his parents were out before changing out of his uniform and withdrawing around £200 from his bank account.
Kevin and his wife Glenys, 58, will not be the only parents marking Christmas while a child remains lost in their lives.
Kevin Gosden with Andrew and his daughter Charlotte before the teenager went missing after taking a train journey to London, shown below Another collaboration is being run with c2c, with the rail line joining the charity’s network of organisations that it can send briefings to when intelligence suggests staff have come into contact with a missing person.supports HTML5 video
‘It’s a bit like when kids are little and you lose sight of them in the shopping centre or park or wherever and you have that little bit of panic. We have had that same horrible, gut-wrenching sense of panic every day for 15 years.’A glimmer of progress in the case came in December 2021 when two men were arrested by South Yorkshire Police for kidnapping and trafficking in connection with Andrew’s disappearance.
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