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THE dad of a missing schoolboy – who vanished 18 years ago – has revealed how cops initially pointed the finger at him before coming up with a bizarre second theory.
Kevin Gosden claims he was told by investigators Andrew, 14, could have become a jihadi fighter and fled the UK due to some books he’d checked out from the library for a school project.
Andrew vanished without a trace after skipping school and taking a train from his hometown of Doncaster to London on September 14 2007.
Weeks later, detectives were able to track down CCTV showing the teenager in King’s Cross station – but from there the trail has run cold.
In December 2021, two men were arrested on suspicion of kidnap and human trafficking, but police confirmed no further action was being taken in September 2023.
Dad Kevin has told The Sun how in the early weeks of the investigation, officers put the family through “traumatising” questioning in which he claims the finger was pointed at him for possible murder.
“They only wanted to get hold of the station CCTV to prove he wasn’t buried in the back garden,” Kevin said.
Asked if cops ever directly accused him of killing Andrew, he added: “That was their assumption. They’re really good at inventing stories.”
At one point Kevin and wife Glenys went to a meeting with investigators in which it was proposed their son may have become a jihadi – which refers to armed militant Islamic movements that seek to establish states based on Islamic principles.
Kevin said: “They came up with some really bizarre ideas.
He’d taken out some books from the library about Islam and they’d come up with the idea that perhaps he was joining some sort of jihadi group.
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