{"id":1127600,"date":"2026-08-03T09:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T09:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1127600\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T09:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T09:29:15","slug":"cold-case-appeal-to-find-teenage-girl-who-disappeared-in-london-nearly-50-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1127600\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold case appeal to find teenage girl who disappeared in London nearly 50 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, 27 July 1979 &#8211; Suzanne and her sister, Michelle, left Neave Comprehensive School in Harold Hill and caught the bus to Romford train station. They caught the train to central London.<\/p>\n<p>Her sister recalls walking near Arsenal\u2019s then Highbury Stadium. She cannot recall where they stayed.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, 28 July 1979 &#8211; They met a number of boys, aged around 14 to 17, while walking around a fair on Highbury Fields. The boys took them to stay at a squat around 15 minutes\u2019 walk away.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, 29 July 1979 &#8211; Monday, 30 July 1979 &#8211; The girls spent two nights at the squat.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, 31 July 1979 &#8211; Michelle returned to the family home in Leamington Road, Harold Hill, expecting Suzanne to return the following morning.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, 1 August 1979 &#8211; Suzanne did not return to the family home. Michelle told her mother what had happened.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, 2 August 1979 &#8211; Police were informed that Suzanne was missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 27 July 1979 &#8211; Suzanne and her sister, Michelle, left Neave Comprehensive School in Harold Hill and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1127601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2653,145565,79609,1413,12,211452,16,15],"class_list":["post-1127600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-essex","tag-harold-hill","tag-highbury","tag-met-police","tag-news","tag-squat","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117030876901948830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1127601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}