Missing children
65,000 a year in Britain alone?
A movie
Recently I watched a British film, released in 2024, in which the character of a Detective Inspector (DI) claims that “every year 65,873 kids go missing” in Britain, and “over 70 percent are never found or are found dead” (The Buckingham Murders, Netflix, minute 18).
I figured that even a fictional film would not manufacture an entirely untrue fact of this nature, but the numbers seemed too high. Seventy percent of 65,873 equals 46,111. Are really that many children “missing” and “never found” of “found dead”, annually?
Read on.
