Vincent 'Vinny' Derrick
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Vincent 'Vinny' Derrick missing in UK
Age at disappearance: 28
Vincent, known as Vinny, has been missing since the early hours of 30 August 2003 following a night out in Manchester. Vinny went to the Jabez Clegg night club on Dover Street, near the University of Manchester with work colleagues, however, at some point during the evening they became separated and his colleagues left without him.
Vinny is believed to have left the club shortly after midnight. It is thought that he got a lift, possibly in a taxi, and was dropped off somewhere south of the city. Despite extensive enquiries, there has been no news of Vinny since and his whereabouts remain a mystery.
His wife and family are extremely concerned for Vinny’s welfare. They also have urgent family news to pass on to Vinny and urge him to make contact.
Vinny is 5ft 6in tall, of medium build with short brown hair and an East Midlands accent. When last seen, Vinny was wearing a black long sleeved shirt, blue Levi jeans and black shoes. He had cufflinks in the design of a tap with ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ on.
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So Vinny has still not been found. How sad. I had been looking for the website set up by his friends www.findvinny.co.uk and couldnt get on it. I was hoping he had been found.
Something terrible must have happened to him on his way to his boss' house, that is all I can think. I often wonder if these poor people had an accident and are still lying somewhere waiting to be found.
Something terrible must have happened to him on his way to his boss' house, that is all I can think. I often wonder if these poor people had an accident and are still lying somewhere waiting to be found.
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Re: Vincent 'Vinny' Derrick
TV psychic’s claims that Vinny has been murdered are wrong insists devastated wife
January 14, 2004
THE WIFE of missing man Vinny Derrick has spoken of her devastation over claims made by a psychic that her husband has been murdered.
The medium made the claims on BBC programme Inside Out on Monday evening. The woman claims Vinny contacted her from beyond the grave to tell her he had been murdered. She has been helping police with their search for Vinny, who vanished almost five months ago.
However, wife Vicki does not believe the woman's claims. She said: "I'm very sceptical about what she's saying. There's absolutely no evidence to support it. I was really upset by the comments she made in the programme and by what she's told me personally.
"To have a complete stranger come to you, someone that you have never met before, and say that your husband has been murdered. I just found it incredible. I can't get my head round it. I know she's just trying to help, but things are getting worse, rather than better. At the end of the day I have to go home every night and face the fact I don't know where my husband is."
On the programme the medium, who was not named as she is helping police with other inquiries, claimed she first realised Vinny was trying to contact her when she was doing a Tarot reading for two woman from Partington, where he lived.
On the programme she said: "I heard the song Vincent and got a message to say he'd been murdered. I got messages taking me to Didsbury and Cheadle. I knew he had made three phone calls. It gave me a lot of pain and pressure in my head. I had a feeling of great sadness and a lot of tears. I felt as though my whole body was being dragged down. He wanted Vicki to be the first to know. He didn't want her waiting in hope."
Vinny Derrick vanished almost five months ago after a night out with work colleagues in Manchester. It is believed he was on his way to his boss's house in Heald Green when he disappeared.
Despite extensive police searches no trace of Vinny has been found.
PC Chris Horrocks said on the programme: "It's very rare in these cases that there is no trail. It isn't police policy to use mediums, but we'll follow any line of enquiry. What she's said has corroborated some things we've already investigated. We will keep in contact with her."
January 14, 2004
THE WIFE of missing man Vinny Derrick has spoken of her devastation over claims made by a psychic that her husband has been murdered.
The medium made the claims on BBC programme Inside Out on Monday evening. The woman claims Vinny contacted her from beyond the grave to tell her he had been murdered. She has been helping police with their search for Vinny, who vanished almost five months ago.
However, wife Vicki does not believe the woman's claims. She said: "I'm very sceptical about what she's saying. There's absolutely no evidence to support it. I was really upset by the comments she made in the programme and by what she's told me personally.
"To have a complete stranger come to you, someone that you have never met before, and say that your husband has been murdered. I just found it incredible. I can't get my head round it. I know she's just trying to help, but things are getting worse, rather than better. At the end of the day I have to go home every night and face the fact I don't know where my husband is."
On the programme the medium, who was not named as she is helping police with other inquiries, claimed she first realised Vinny was trying to contact her when she was doing a Tarot reading for two woman from Partington, where he lived.
On the programme she said: "I heard the song Vincent and got a message to say he'd been murdered. I got messages taking me to Didsbury and Cheadle. I knew he had made three phone calls. It gave me a lot of pain and pressure in my head. I had a feeling of great sadness and a lot of tears. I felt as though my whole body was being dragged down. He wanted Vicki to be the first to know. He didn't want her waiting in hope."
Vinny Derrick vanished almost five months ago after a night out with work colleagues in Manchester. It is believed he was on his way to his boss's house in Heald Green when he disappeared.
Despite extensive police searches no trace of Vinny has been found.
PC Chris Horrocks said on the programme: "It's very rare in these cases that there is no trail. It isn't police policy to use mediums, but we'll follow any line of enquiry. What she's said has corroborated some things we've already investigated. We will keep in contact with her."
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‘He kissed me then vanished FOREVER’
IT’S FIVE YEARS SINCE VICKI DERRICK’S HUSBAND DISAPPEARED. HE IS ONE OF THE 210,000 PEOPLE WHO GO MISSING IN THE UK EVERY YEAR. HERE, VICKI, AND ASMA SADDIQUE, WHOSE HUSBAND ALSO VANISHED, DESCRIBE THEIR ANGUISH
By Eimear O'Hagan
Vinny Derrick wasn't unhappy. He wasn't depressed or ill, in debt or having an affair. But one night five years ago the 28 year old left his wife Vicki and two-year-old son Louis at home for a night out with colleagues – and never came home.
Since then, Vicki's life has been on hold.
"I've relived the last time I saw him a million times in my mind," she says. "He was going out straight after work, so it was just an ordinary morning with me in my dressing gown, Louis on my hip and Vinny kissing us both goodbye."
"I've racked my brain for clues to anything unusual in Vinny's mood or behaviour, but there's nothing. That morning we were an ordinary family in our little home. By the next day, we'd become a statistic."
The couple met on holiday in Ibiza in 1996, and after a long-distance relationship, finally moved in together in Partington near Manchester. Vinny, ever the romantic, proposed on Valentine's Day four years after they met, in front of Vicki's whole family.
"I was totally shocked," she recalls. "But I didn't have to think twice. He was my perfect man – kind, funny and family-oriented."
They married a year later and after Vicki fell pregnant on their honeymoon, Louis was born in 2001. "Our little family was complete," says Vicki. "Vinny was made up that we had a son. He was besotted with him."
Vicki's voice still falters as she struggles to explain the events of August 29, 2003. Vinny, who worked at Manchester airport, had arranged to go clubbing with colleagues after work and planned to stay at his boss' house as it was nearby.
"I was expecting him home early the next morning," explains Vicki. "I texted him at 8am, but he didn't reply and his phone just rang out when I called. I was annoyed because I thought he must have had a late night and was still asleep."
Then came a call from her husband's boss checking that Vinny had got home safely. He never turned up at his employer's house after leaving the club and getting into a cab alone.
"My hand was shaking as I hung up and began ringing the local hospitals, convinced he must have been in an accident," Vicki says.
Hospital staff advised her to call the police. Later that day, two officers arrived to take a statement.
"Sitting in my living room, giving the police a description of Vinny, felt totally surreal. I kept thinking: ‘This sort of thing doesn't happen to people like us.'"
Both sets of families gathered at Vicki's house and waited for news. That night she lay clutching her phone, willing her husband to contact her.
"I cried all night and felt so helpless. I tortured myself thinking he'd had an accident and was lying injured somewhere. There's no way in the world he'd have left us," she says.
But as the weeks went by, there was still no news. All the police could figure out from CCTV footage and mobile phone records was that Vinny left the Manchester nightclub alone and got into a taxi, heading towards his boss' home. At some point he got out and began walking. The taxi driver has never been identified.
"Some days I would be positive, telling myself he would be home soon," says Vicki, 29. "But that would imply he'd had a reason to desert his family. And he didn't, so mostly I wept, worrying what had happened to him."
Since then her life has been peppered by milestones reached without her husband at her side. It was on her 25th birthday, two months after Vinny disappeared, that Vicki began to accept he wasn't going to walk through the front door.
"When I woke up that morning without him beside me, and without his present to open, I just sobbed. I knew he wouldn't miss my birthday and the reality hit me that something dreadful had happened to him. I couldn't wait for the day to be over, to crawl into bed, pull the blankets over my head and shut the world out," she says.
A few months later, Vicki was forced to return to her job at an estate agent to pay the mortgage.
"Nothing's been the same since that day," she recalls. And even though it's five years since her husband vanished, Vicki still can't move on with her life. She's had bereavement counselling but says, without a body, she can't grieve properly.
"Because I don't know what happened to him, there's always a tiny glimmer of hope that he is out there somewhere. It sounds terrible but it would have been easier if Vinny had died from an illness. I could have mourned him and accepted his death," she says.
"Instead I live my life with a part of me always stuck in the past. A few years ago I managed to clear out all his clothes but I still keep his football trophies and photos around the house. I don't want Louis to forget his dad.
"He talks about Vinny a lot, and recently he's been asking why he doesn't have a daddy like his friends," adds Vicki. "I've explained that his dad is missing, but that's hard for a child to understand."
In two years, Vinny will be legally declared dead and Vicki can have their marriage dissolved, and will be eligible for life insurance payouts.
"I haven't had a relationship since Vinny disappeared, but I don't want to be on my own for the rest of my life," Vicki says. "I know that he would have wanted me to have a life, but it's hard."
Asma Saddique is one person who understands what Vicki has been through – because her husband Sajid also disappeared.
It was Valentine's Day, 2007 when car dealer Sajid, then 32, vanished on his way to meet a friend and business associate. He never returned to take their daughter Salihah, now three, to nursery.
"When he didn't come home at lunchtime I started to worry. By late afternoon I was going out of my mind," says Asma, 27, from Bradford.
She phoned the police who discovered his Volkswagen Bora abandoned in a local car park the next morning. The friend Sajid was due to meet was questioned by police but no action was taken, and they continue to investigate his disappearance.
Asma, meanwhile, has gone from being the wife of a successful businessman to a single mum of three – Keyaan, two, Salihah, and Neha, seven. She struggles to survive on benefits, and is lost without the man she married in 1999 after a six-month romance.
"I miss him most after I put the children to bed," she says. "That was our time together, when we would cuddle up on the sofa. Now, I feel so alone.
"This past year without him has been so hard. I struggle every day to understand how a person can just vanish. I can't stop thinking he may have been badly hurt – but I don't know anyone who would have wanted to harm him. It's only in my dreams that we're back together as a family again, but as soon as I wake up I realise he's still missing. And I don't know if he's ever coming home."
Have you got information about Vinny or Sajid? Contact Missingpeople.org.uk, which has a 24-hour confidential freephone service on 0500 700700.
IT’S FIVE YEARS SINCE VICKI DERRICK’S HUSBAND DISAPPEARED. HE IS ONE OF THE 210,000 PEOPLE WHO GO MISSING IN THE UK EVERY YEAR. HERE, VICKI, AND ASMA SADDIQUE, WHOSE HUSBAND ALSO VANISHED, DESCRIBE THEIR ANGUISH
By Eimear O'Hagan
Vinny Derrick wasn't unhappy. He wasn't depressed or ill, in debt or having an affair. But one night five years ago the 28 year old left his wife Vicki and two-year-old son Louis at home for a night out with colleagues – and never came home.
Since then, Vicki's life has been on hold.
"I've relived the last time I saw him a million times in my mind," she says. "He was going out straight after work, so it was just an ordinary morning with me in my dressing gown, Louis on my hip and Vinny kissing us both goodbye."
"I've racked my brain for clues to anything unusual in Vinny's mood or behaviour, but there's nothing. That morning we were an ordinary family in our little home. By the next day, we'd become a statistic."
The couple met on holiday in Ibiza in 1996, and after a long-distance relationship, finally moved in together in Partington near Manchester. Vinny, ever the romantic, proposed on Valentine's Day four years after they met, in front of Vicki's whole family.
"I was totally shocked," she recalls. "But I didn't have to think twice. He was my perfect man – kind, funny and family-oriented."
They married a year later and after Vicki fell pregnant on their honeymoon, Louis was born in 2001. "Our little family was complete," says Vicki. "Vinny was made up that we had a son. He was besotted with him."
Vicki's voice still falters as she struggles to explain the events of August 29, 2003. Vinny, who worked at Manchester airport, had arranged to go clubbing with colleagues after work and planned to stay at his boss' house as it was nearby.
"I was expecting him home early the next morning," explains Vicki. "I texted him at 8am, but he didn't reply and his phone just rang out when I called. I was annoyed because I thought he must have had a late night and was still asleep."
Then came a call from her husband's boss checking that Vinny had got home safely. He never turned up at his employer's house after leaving the club and getting into a cab alone.
"My hand was shaking as I hung up and began ringing the local hospitals, convinced he must have been in an accident," Vicki says.
Hospital staff advised her to call the police. Later that day, two officers arrived to take a statement.
"Sitting in my living room, giving the police a description of Vinny, felt totally surreal. I kept thinking: ‘This sort of thing doesn't happen to people like us.'"
Both sets of families gathered at Vicki's house and waited for news. That night she lay clutching her phone, willing her husband to contact her.
"I cried all night and felt so helpless. I tortured myself thinking he'd had an accident and was lying injured somewhere. There's no way in the world he'd have left us," she says.
But as the weeks went by, there was still no news. All the police could figure out from CCTV footage and mobile phone records was that Vinny left the Manchester nightclub alone and got into a taxi, heading towards his boss' home. At some point he got out and began walking. The taxi driver has never been identified.
"Some days I would be positive, telling myself he would be home soon," says Vicki, 29. "But that would imply he'd had a reason to desert his family. And he didn't, so mostly I wept, worrying what had happened to him."
Since then her life has been peppered by milestones reached without her husband at her side. It was on her 25th birthday, two months after Vinny disappeared, that Vicki began to accept he wasn't going to walk through the front door.
"When I woke up that morning without him beside me, and without his present to open, I just sobbed. I knew he wouldn't miss my birthday and the reality hit me that something dreadful had happened to him. I couldn't wait for the day to be over, to crawl into bed, pull the blankets over my head and shut the world out," she says.
A few months later, Vicki was forced to return to her job at an estate agent to pay the mortgage.
"Nothing's been the same since that day," she recalls. And even though it's five years since her husband vanished, Vicki still can't move on with her life. She's had bereavement counselling but says, without a body, she can't grieve properly.
"Because I don't know what happened to him, there's always a tiny glimmer of hope that he is out there somewhere. It sounds terrible but it would have been easier if Vinny had died from an illness. I could have mourned him and accepted his death," she says.
"Instead I live my life with a part of me always stuck in the past. A few years ago I managed to clear out all his clothes but I still keep his football trophies and photos around the house. I don't want Louis to forget his dad.
"He talks about Vinny a lot, and recently he's been asking why he doesn't have a daddy like his friends," adds Vicki. "I've explained that his dad is missing, but that's hard for a child to understand."
In two years, Vinny will be legally declared dead and Vicki can have their marriage dissolved, and will be eligible for life insurance payouts.
"I haven't had a relationship since Vinny disappeared, but I don't want to be on my own for the rest of my life," Vicki says. "I know that he would have wanted me to have a life, but it's hard."
Asma Saddique is one person who understands what Vicki has been through – because her husband Sajid also disappeared.
It was Valentine's Day, 2007 when car dealer Sajid, then 32, vanished on his way to meet a friend and business associate. He never returned to take their daughter Salihah, now three, to nursery.
"When he didn't come home at lunchtime I started to worry. By late afternoon I was going out of my mind," says Asma, 27, from Bradford.
She phoned the police who discovered his Volkswagen Bora abandoned in a local car park the next morning. The friend Sajid was due to meet was questioned by police but no action was taken, and they continue to investigate his disappearance.
Asma, meanwhile, has gone from being the wife of a successful businessman to a single mum of three – Keyaan, two, Salihah, and Neha, seven. She struggles to survive on benefits, and is lost without the man she married in 1999 after a six-month romance.
"I miss him most after I put the children to bed," she says. "That was our time together, when we would cuddle up on the sofa. Now, I feel so alone.
"This past year without him has been so hard. I struggle every day to understand how a person can just vanish. I can't stop thinking he may have been badly hurt – but I don't know anyone who would have wanted to harm him. It's only in my dreams that we're back together as a family again, but as soon as I wake up I realise he's still missing. And I don't know if he's ever coming home."
Have you got information about Vinny or Sajid? Contact Missingpeople.org.uk, which has a 24-hour confidential freephone service on 0500 700700.
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Re: Vincent 'Vinny' Derrick
The double heartbreak of Vinny’s mum
Jane Lavender
March 10, 2004
THE MOTHER of missing man Vinny Derrick has spoken of her anguish at the disappearance of her son - and how it reminds her of the death of her young daughter almost 30 years ago.
Vony Derrick has hunted tirelessly for information about her son's whereabouts since his disappearance after a night out with work colleagues more than six months ago.
Last weekend she, and almost 60 of Vinny's family and friends held a massive leaflet drop throughout Cheadle and Heald Green in the hope it will jog someone's memory and lead to fresh information.
Vony said: "I lost my little girl, Emma to meningitis, when she was two-and-a-half. It's a selfish way of looking at it, but you can't help thinking why do these things happen to me? I was very young when Emma died and was able to go on because I had Vinny and Chris. You just never think it's going to happen. Your kids shouldn't die before you."
"Vinny realised what I had been through when his son Louis was taken into hospital. He just broke down. He wouldn't leave his bedside. He was a 'jack the lad', but a real family man too. He idolised Louis and Vicki. I would say he had never been happier."
Vinny disappeared on August 29 after a night out in the university area of Manchester with work colleagues. He was due to spend the night at his boss Julie Jones' house in Heald Green, but never arrived. It is believed Vinny was dropped off in a taxi somewhere along the A34 in Cheadle. Despite extensive police searches of the area no trace of him has ever been found. The taxi driver is yet to come forward.
Vony has helped with searches since her son's disappearance. It is hoped the leaflet drop, of 5,000 fliers, will help jog someone's memory who might have information about the fateful night. She has vowed her search will not end until Vinny is found. She said: "The response was fantastic. Even one lady from Cheadle came to help. If just one person comes forward then that is something. It's so frustrating. The police have looked absolutely everywhere."
"I don't want to think the worst, but can't help it until someone comes forward. I just exist now. We're all living with empty feelings. I keep thinking maybe he's banged his head and doesn't know who he is. I keep staring at tramps in the hope they are him because he would have really changed after all this time."
A police spokesman added: "Family support is always more than appreciated. Basically the more people we get involved in the searches and the leaflet drops, the more people we can reach and the more chance we have of someone remembering something."
Anyone with any information is asked to contact police on 856 7604 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.
Jane Lavender
March 10, 2004
THE MOTHER of missing man Vinny Derrick has spoken of her anguish at the disappearance of her son - and how it reminds her of the death of her young daughter almost 30 years ago.
Vony Derrick has hunted tirelessly for information about her son's whereabouts since his disappearance after a night out with work colleagues more than six months ago.
Last weekend she, and almost 60 of Vinny's family and friends held a massive leaflet drop throughout Cheadle and Heald Green in the hope it will jog someone's memory and lead to fresh information.
Vony said: "I lost my little girl, Emma to meningitis, when she was two-and-a-half. It's a selfish way of looking at it, but you can't help thinking why do these things happen to me? I was very young when Emma died and was able to go on because I had Vinny and Chris. You just never think it's going to happen. Your kids shouldn't die before you."
"Vinny realised what I had been through when his son Louis was taken into hospital. He just broke down. He wouldn't leave his bedside. He was a 'jack the lad', but a real family man too. He idolised Louis and Vicki. I would say he had never been happier."
Vinny disappeared on August 29 after a night out in the university area of Manchester with work colleagues. He was due to spend the night at his boss Julie Jones' house in Heald Green, but never arrived. It is believed Vinny was dropped off in a taxi somewhere along the A34 in Cheadle. Despite extensive police searches of the area no trace of him has ever been found. The taxi driver is yet to come forward.
Vony has helped with searches since her son's disappearance. It is hoped the leaflet drop, of 5,000 fliers, will help jog someone's memory who might have information about the fateful night. She has vowed her search will not end until Vinny is found. She said: "The response was fantastic. Even one lady from Cheadle came to help. If just one person comes forward then that is something. It's so frustrating. The police have looked absolutely everywhere."
"I don't want to think the worst, but can't help it until someone comes forward. I just exist now. We're all living with empty feelings. I keep thinking maybe he's banged his head and doesn't know who he is. I keep staring at tramps in the hope they are him because he would have really changed after all this time."
A police spokesman added: "Family support is always more than appreciated. Basically the more people we get involved in the searches and the leaflet drops, the more people we can reach and the more chance we have of someone remembering something."
Anyone with any information is asked to contact police on 856 7604 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.
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“ANYTHING can happen to anybody,” reflects Manchester policewoman Lucy Cronin, trying to unravel yet another human mystery.
“The scary thing about missing people is that they really can turn into any sort of investigation. That’s the beginning stages of a possible murder investigation, abduction, kidnap, robbery…”
Vinny Derrick went missing on August 30 2003. Then aged 28, he was last seen at the Jabez Clegg pub and club off Oxford Road in Manchester.
The father-of-one from Partington was picked up by a taxi but later dropped off in an area believed to be near the John Lewis store in Cheadle.
Almost six years later, his wife Vicki and young son Lewis are still waiting for him to come home. “You go on a night out and you don’t come home. It just doesn’t make sense one bit,” says Vicki.
Missing: Race Against Time (Channel 4, tonight, 9pm) follows three families’ desperate searches to find loved ones in Greater Manchester.
As the Cutting Edge documentary explains, in a city of more than 2.5m people, it’s easy to disappear. Greater Manchester Police’s 999 control room handles at least one missing persons call an hour.
Every year in Britain police receive a quarter of a million calls about missing people. Just a small number make the headlines. Some choose to disappear, some are found too late and others just vanish into thin air.
The first 72 hours are vital to the police. If they aren’t found within that time, it becomes less likely they ever will be as the trail goes cold.
It’s just 30 minutes since Pauline called 999. Her mother Josephine O’Hara has gone missing after a row and has a large amount of money with her. As one police officer puts it: “We potentially have got an 81-year-old demented female with up to £10,000 cash in her pocket and we don’t know where she is.”
Adam Warren, 25, from Bury went out to sign on at the Job Centre and was expected back within the hour. He also appears to have vanished. Girlfriend Katy is frantic with worry. The couple have an 11-week-old daughter called Ellie and Adam was a doting dad.
“You just feel helpless because he might be lying in a ditch somewhere,” says Adam’s despairing mum Ann. “He just wouldn’t go off and leave her.”
There is a missed call on Katy’s mobile. Ann rings the number and is told by a woman that it’s a phone box in Bury that she just happened to be passing.
One of the police team investigating comments: “You’ve got to try and get into somebody’s mind to try and ascertain the different reasons why they might go missing. If they’ve got financial concerns, marital problems, employment problems, anything like that which causes somebody to disappear.”
Vinny’s wife Vicki still has no idea what happened to her husband. “For the eight years that I’d known him, there wasn’t a day that we’d gone without speaking to each other. He was a very normal 28-year-old lad. He was very good with Lewis, taught him how to play football. Lewis idolised him.”
Now aged seven, the young boy in a Man Utd shirt still thinks his daddy will one day walk back through the door. Det Sgt Frank Hayley heads the investigation and won’t close the case until Vinny is found.
“There’s got to be something,” he insists. “There’s got to be a clue out there for us, to assist us in finding Vinny. The family deserve some closure. They can’t move on with their lives until they get that closure and if it’s humanly possible, I would like to provide that closure for them.”
Frank is the sort of policeman you’d want on the case if someone you loved went missing. He acknowledges that Vinny could have staged his own disappearance but thinks that unlikely. Did he have an accident? Or was a third party involved?
“It’s a real Sherlock Holmes mystery. Twenty-odd-year-old blokes don’t go out on a night out and disappear. I’ve got seven years left until I retire and I’d hate to be retiring not having found Vinny Derrick.”
Sometimes the outcome to a missing persons probe can be surprising. No matter how close we are to people, we never really know what’s going on in their mind.
The vanished can re-appear as suddenly as they went missing, with all sorts of reasons for the lost days. Others, like Vinny, remain as one big question mark.
Police believe he may have fallen into a river, although extensive searches found no trace of him. Nothing can be ruled out. But after all this time, it’s unlikely he will be found alive.
Det Sgt Hayley takes swabs from Lewis and Vicki to help build a DNA profile for Vinny, for use in case a body is ever found. “We’re grieving because Vinny isn’t here,” says Vicki.. “But we don’t know why he’s not here.”
“The scary thing about missing people is that they really can turn into any sort of investigation. That’s the beginning stages of a possible murder investigation, abduction, kidnap, robbery…”
Vinny Derrick went missing on August 30 2003. Then aged 28, he was last seen at the Jabez Clegg pub and club off Oxford Road in Manchester.
The father-of-one from Partington was picked up by a taxi but later dropped off in an area believed to be near the John Lewis store in Cheadle.
Almost six years later, his wife Vicki and young son Lewis are still waiting for him to come home. “You go on a night out and you don’t come home. It just doesn’t make sense one bit,” says Vicki.
Missing: Race Against Time (Channel 4, tonight, 9pm) follows three families’ desperate searches to find loved ones in Greater Manchester.
As the Cutting Edge documentary explains, in a city of more than 2.5m people, it’s easy to disappear. Greater Manchester Police’s 999 control room handles at least one missing persons call an hour.
Every year in Britain police receive a quarter of a million calls about missing people. Just a small number make the headlines. Some choose to disappear, some are found too late and others just vanish into thin air.
The first 72 hours are vital to the police. If they aren’t found within that time, it becomes less likely they ever will be as the trail goes cold.
It’s just 30 minutes since Pauline called 999. Her mother Josephine O’Hara has gone missing after a row and has a large amount of money with her. As one police officer puts it: “We potentially have got an 81-year-old demented female with up to £10,000 cash in her pocket and we don’t know where she is.”
Adam Warren, 25, from Bury went out to sign on at the Job Centre and was expected back within the hour. He also appears to have vanished. Girlfriend Katy is frantic with worry. The couple have an 11-week-old daughter called Ellie and Adam was a doting dad.
“You just feel helpless because he might be lying in a ditch somewhere,” says Adam’s despairing mum Ann. “He just wouldn’t go off and leave her.”
There is a missed call on Katy’s mobile. Ann rings the number and is told by a woman that it’s a phone box in Bury that she just happened to be passing.
One of the police team investigating comments: “You’ve got to try and get into somebody’s mind to try and ascertain the different reasons why they might go missing. If they’ve got financial concerns, marital problems, employment problems, anything like that which causes somebody to disappear.”
Vinny’s wife Vicki still has no idea what happened to her husband. “For the eight years that I’d known him, there wasn’t a day that we’d gone without speaking to each other. He was a very normal 28-year-old lad. He was very good with Lewis, taught him how to play football. Lewis idolised him.”
Now aged seven, the young boy in a Man Utd shirt still thinks his daddy will one day walk back through the door. Det Sgt Frank Hayley heads the investigation and won’t close the case until Vinny is found.
“There’s got to be something,” he insists. “There’s got to be a clue out there for us, to assist us in finding Vinny. The family deserve some closure. They can’t move on with their lives until they get that closure and if it’s humanly possible, I would like to provide that closure for them.”
Frank is the sort of policeman you’d want on the case if someone you loved went missing. He acknowledges that Vinny could have staged his own disappearance but thinks that unlikely. Did he have an accident? Or was a third party involved?
“It’s a real Sherlock Holmes mystery. Twenty-odd-year-old blokes don’t go out on a night out and disappear. I’ve got seven years left until I retire and I’d hate to be retiring not having found Vinny Derrick.”
Sometimes the outcome to a missing persons probe can be surprising. No matter how close we are to people, we never really know what’s going on in their mind.
The vanished can re-appear as suddenly as they went missing, with all sorts of reasons for the lost days. Others, like Vinny, remain as one big question mark.
Police believe he may have fallen into a river, although extensive searches found no trace of him. Nothing can be ruled out. But after all this time, it’s unlikely he will be found alive.
Det Sgt Hayley takes swabs from Lewis and Vicki to help build a DNA profile for Vinny, for use in case a body is ever found. “We’re grieving because Vinny isn’t here,” says Vicki.. “But we don’t know why he’s not here.”
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Re: Vincent 'Vinny' Derrick
http://www.gmp.police.uk/mainsite/pages/E4F1BFEABEC2907D802579A50060D685
Too early to say at the moment but I believe this is near to where it was thought Vinny was.
Too early to say at the moment but I believe this is near to where it was thought Vinny was.
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Re: Vincent 'Vinny' Derrick
aqeleega wrote:http://www.gmp.police.uk/mainsite/pages/E4F1BFEABEC2907D802579A50060D685
Too early to say at the moment but I believe this is near to where it was thought Vinny was.
OMG! Thanks for this aqeleega.
I hope so for Vinny's family's sake
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Re: Vincent 'Vinny' Derrick
http://www.gmp.police.uk/mainsite/pages/8DAEF29BFD45E0BC802579A60067E846
It is Him. Poor lad, laid there all these years R.I.P.
It is Him. Poor lad, laid there all these years R.I.P.
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Re: Vincent 'Vinny' Derrick
aqeleega wrote:http://www.gmp.police.uk/mainsite/pages/8DAEF29BFD45E0BC802579A60067E846
It is Him. Poor lad, laid there all these years R.I.P.
So sad that he lay there all that time.
Re: Vincent 'Vinny' Derrick
aqeleega wrote:http://www.gmp.police.uk/mainsite/pages/8DAEF29BFD45E0BC802579A60067E846
It is Him. Poor lad, laid there all these years R.I.P.
RIP Vinny
Thank you aqeleega, for the link
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Re: Vincent 'Vinny' Derrick
Vinny's wife talking
http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16171854
http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16171854
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