disappearance

His close friend Lucy Hatton said his disappearance was "really, really out of character" but that he had not "been in quite the right head space" recently.

Thirty-three days after Aimee’s disappearance, her mother held a funeral service for her; 20,000 people attended, emptying their pockets in tribute.

Madeleine's disappearance at the age of three during a family holiday in Portugal is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and remains unsolved.

He denied any involvement in the disappearance and an investigation was launched.

Life under the Assads had meant more than 50 years of disappearances, incarceration - and the civil war that began in 2011 had claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Syrians.