‘I sing to my son’: Father of missing teen on finding support through choir

‘I feel as though I’m singing to my son’: Inside the Missing People choirMixed

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00:00My son Lee has been missing since 1988 and I joined the choir in 2014 and in fact I was

00:13probably one of the first members. I feel as if I was singing to my son and I he may be alive

00:20he may not be. I dread the thought to think that he has been murdered but I hope he's alive but if

00:27he's not and he's up in heaven perhaps then I think I just imagine he can hear me. It's just a daydream

00:35I have really it's just a dream and also for the rest of the year we rehearse together and meet

00:40together that gives me something to take my mind off of my loss and it is a great loss when the

00:46child goes missing. I mean my son was missing since he was 15 now he would be well in his 50s I think

00:53it's been very hard for me but I do look forward to each month when we get together

01:00and that does does does help me enormously.

01:03I joined the choir because my son Finn went missing about eight and a half years ago

01:16it's a it's obviously you know place where no one wants to be but we sort of get together and it's

01:22it does there's a sort of empathy and compassion within the choir and the supporters of the choir

01:26as well so yeah everyone understands that's the thing. I think a few years ago I think someone

01:33came back seeing having seen the choir so you know there's always a sort of drive to do that

01:37stuff for us and get the get the names of our missing loved ones out as well as all the others

01:42you know as well.

01:49Oh sweet love of mine

01:55Oh sweet love of mine

02:01Oh sweet love of mine