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"The devastated parents recounted how Steven disappeared when he and his mother were taking a walk in Saltburn. Steven, then 23, decided to go to the public toilets - and was never seen again. Doris, who had used the women's bathroom at the same time her son was using the men's toilet, said: 'I came out and stood and people have asked me why I didn't go in.' 'He would have been horrified, he was 23, not a child.'
Doris went home without Steven, while Charles, who was at a football match, rushed home to immediately start looking for his son. He searched the beach by their house and travelled to Saltburn to find him, but was unsuccessful in his searches. 'I got my car to Saltburn, went all over the place screaming,' he explained. '28 years, we never heard a word.' In 2020, the couple were arrested on suspicion on murdering their son, and were released on bail after a cold case review. After a 17-week long investigation, they were cleared of all charges in February 2021."
It seems rather odd that a mother, let alone a mother who, like her husband, was or had been a police officer, wouldn't to go into men's toilets to check whether her son was still there or had come to harm there when he didn't emerge.
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