He told his wife he was going to the shops. He had just been playing with his little girl before putting his phone on charge and leaving the house.
But 27-year-old Nathaniel Favour Enemona didn't return that morning. Over a week on, red and white missing posters now line the streets; his face stuck to windows close to his home in Heywood.
He had been seen by a dog walker sitting on a wall beside the River Roch, in an area of woodland, around 90 minutes after leaving home on November 24. READ MORE Girl, 9, 'dragged two metres under car' and left needing facial reconstruction after horrific crash It was just ten minutes later that he was reported as missing.
He suddenly vanished - now feared to have entered the river during Storm Bert - with just his grey sliders left behind on the ground.
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