Also, a one-way child ticket from Doncaster to Kings Cross cost £23.50 which means he had £176.50, clearly he had some intention of going somewhere.
Why would he want to commit suicide at 14 if he was smart, cared for and had no signs of depression and/or anxiety? I personally believe he was meeting somebody and possibly got kidnapped.
The train ticket cost is from a 2021 train ticket online on www.thetrainline.com.
That’s interesting - so Andrew left home (for the second time) at 8:30... Let’s assume that he walked to the station as he stopped of at a cash point... 18 minute walk plus visit to cash point = 25 minutes tops? I checked the train times from Doncaster to London here - they are pretty frequent and I’d guess not too different back in 2007. So anyway, the upshot, I’m guessing, is that Andrew could have gotten an earlier train but instead chose a slightly later off-peak service.
honestly?
I dont know.
other than finding the Vicar suspicious and making theories up that explain that i've always thought that after he ended up in London he has ended up with someone dodgy who came across as a friend...been talked into having a meal / drink / sightseeing with them...then maybe drugged, absued, recorded and subsequently blackmailed into being used a prostitute which has then left him on drugs and too 'ashamed' to ever go home.
and i base that on my research into the VIP paedophile scandal and following leads that led me to some very dark corners of the capital.
this book by Anthony Daly is very illuminating as to how these things go down:
Playland: Secrets of a forgotten scandal eBook: Daly, Anthony: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
i cannot recommend that book highly enough...takes you places you or i would never have access to....thankfully.
but the vicar angle is making me re-consider...did Andrew find / see something that ended up getting him killed or making him run away?