A week ago a young man of 18 walked out of a student bar in London and disappeared. No one has seen him since. There's a link on Facebook for Anthony Soh but not a lot else, just CCTV footage showing him a few hundred yards away from the bar.
Have you ever tried to get information on missing people in the UK? Laura Richards did through the Freedom of Information Act. She wrote to the National Policing Improvements Agency asking for the statistics for missing people over the last five years. She wanted to know how many were under 16. That was in October 2010. They did not have the information.
Maybe Anthony will turn up safe and well. Of Chinese parents from Kent, Anthony was living in London. It's a big city and it's easy to feel lonely, although Anthony had many college friends. London is also clearly a place where you can vanish without trace. There's not even a number on a public list for you. If he had been a young woman who never made it home to bed would things have been different? Perhaps so.
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