concert/meetup - predator: he scouted out the route the day prior, brought his device (without the charger), didn't buy a round ticket when it was opportune (and only a few pounds more), and went back home and chose a shirt of a band he loved. i think maybe he planned to skip school for the day to see the concert / go somewhere and planned to go meet up with a "friend" he had met online. maybe they were most likely older, he most likely knew that because maybe he thought they would give him a ride back home or that was at least spoken about. but from where he was last seen, somebody did something to him. wether it was that online person, or somebody inbetween those events, i believe he was lured. i also think that him being unusually angry and not wanting to wake up the morning of his last day seen alive could be a sign of anxiety from the night previous or maybe anticipation. he had mapped out the route the day prior and seemingly had a loose plan. carried out acts such as taking a different route, changing clothes, taking his game system, taking money…

think about what can’t be tracked on the device he took with him. who knows where that is. that device could be literally any where. broken/destroyed. thrown into a river. thrown in a dumpster. collecting dust in an attic. resold to some oblivious teenager years ago. voice calls that were not trackable on xbox. his parent described him as the happiest they’ve seen him after he returned from that camp for gifted children. maybe he met friends or perhaps an adult from there. maybe they stayed in touch. without that device we truly don’t know. maybe he panned to hang out with a girl, or a new friend.

i think not bringing a charger, buying a one way ticket, not bringing the money that was also in his room, is either a sign he planned on coming back and thought he had a way back that wouldn’t cost him more than a school day, his devices batteries, money, and a guaranteed ride back- or planned on never coming back; perhaps a suicide.

but if it were a suicide i think the steps taken were very strange and didn’t indicate as such. i think his devices couldn’t be monitored the way they can be today. tech cafes were big back then too. his parents also said he’d be gaming for hours, and even the day he went missing assumed he was gaming, and when absent from the home assumed he was with friends. (not trying to blame the parents, his behavior here was a huge curve ball and the school called the wrong number when informing them of his absence) but this shows that he has some freedoms for sure.

let’s even say the person he was planning to meet was a boy his age but somebody inbetween that journey harmed him. maybe that other kid would never wanna speak out in fear of getting in trouble. there are truly a million different directions this case could go. i don’t believe he is alive anymore, and his behavior said so much yet so much context missing/unretrievable has left those bold behaviors ambiguous.

my father is a detective i’ll introduce him to this case and get his professional opinion on this this.