Dad vanished after going to pub toilet - 56 years on, his family finally have answers

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

It was a mystery so harrowing that most of Russell Lowbridge's family refused to ever even mention it. Growing up he knew he should never bring up the subject of what had happened to his missing grandfather Alfred Swinscoe, 54, who on a cold night in January 1967 gave his son Gary 10 bob for last orders, then popped to the outside toilet of his local pub - and vanished into thin air.

Most thought the proud Derbyshire miner and pigeon racer - nicknamed 'Sparrow' and 'the Champion Pigeon Man of Pinxton' - recently estranged from his long-suffering wife, had run out on her and their six kids.

Only Gary, Russell's uncle and the last person to see Alfred at the Miners' Arms in Pinxton village, refused to believe he would have abandoned his family and never gave up hoping he would see his dad again - right up to the day he died in 2012, the Mirror reports. READ MORE: 'On ma gran's grave ama finish youse...' The sick messages sent by evil thug who made his partner's life a misery With Gary gone, Russell, 61, who was just four when Alfred disappeared, thought he'd never discover the truth.

Then suddenly, while scrolling social media and coming across a police post about a body that had been dug up in a farmer's field, he recognised one of his long-lost granddad's odd socks from 56 years earlier.