Angela Bradley

listener discretion is advised. Mythe Bridge spans the River seven at Tewkesbury. Tewksbury is a market town in Gloucestershire which is famous for their abbey. Mythe Bridge is an arch bridge and is a Grade two listed structure. In January nineteen ninety five, a white citron Ax car was parked next to Myyth Bridge. The car itself stood out to passers by because there were keys still in the ignition. This in itself was unusual and so this car was

reported to the police. When police looked into the registered owner of the car, they found it to be thirty four year old Angela Bradley. Angela worked as a librarian and lived in Gloucester with some housemates. Her brother later described her as a very intelligent woman. They discovered that around seven pm on the sixteenth of January nineteen ninety five, Angela left her home. She had not returned and hadn't

contacted her housemates or her family. The discovery of her car next to Myyth Bridge with the keys in the ignition now added even more concern to this missing person case. Gloucestershire police began to try and delve into Angela's life to establish her movements before she disappeared. Angela's housemates told police that when she left the home at around seven pm that night, she told them that she was late

and that she had to go. The housemates didn't know at what exactly she was late for, and clearly this only took on more significance when Angela didn't return. Her family were also able to provide some background on Angela at the time that she went missing. Her brother Philip told the press that Angela had been suffering from anorexia and depression for a while before she disappeared, and had spent time in Coney Hill Mental Hospital as a result

of her eating disorder. Coney Hill closed in nineteen ninety four, and it was at this point that she was placed in the home in Gloucester where she was living in January nineteen ninety five. Philip also explain that Angela had been visiting her parents on the weekend that she disappeared. It's unclear if Angela had been with her parents and then gone back to her home in Gloucester before leaving

again at around seven pm. It was clear, though, that Angela was a vulnerable person at the time that she went missing, and there were many reasons why her family and friends wanted her to be found as quickly as possible. Angela left her car keys in the ignition and must have gone wherever she was going on foot or perhaps

in another person's car. Angela's brother, Philip, later explained that the prevailing theory of the case since it happened was that Angela must have taken her own life and she must have been in the river due to her background as a vulnerable person. He said quote there was never any other theory put forward. Philip explained that his family, including his parents, never believed that this was the case, saying,

my parents never believed it. My mother thought she was still out there alive somewhere, but my father thought other things had happened. He didn't know what, but he didn't think she'd committed suicide. We had a lot of conversations about what might have happened. It's a total mystery. There did seem to be little to go on, with not a lot of evidence being presented about what could have happened and their fare, the case began to stall quite

early on. In twenty sixteen, the case was reopened by Gloucestershire Police and they once again appealed for anyone with information to come forward. Inspector Andy Matheson said, we don't know if Angela has been murdered. We don't know if Angela took her own life. We don't know if she's decided to disappear and reinvent herself and is still alive and well somewhere else. Obviously the outcome we're hoping for. He stated that the National Crime Agency were involved in

the reopening of the case. Philip explained in twenty sixteen that his parents had died without knowing what happened to Angela, and that their family would very much like to know that they'd lived in Limbo without knowing all these years. Despite the reopening of the case in twenty sixteen, there hasn't been much progress documented about Angela and the investigation

which has been conducted by Gloucestershire Police. They have been quite clear that there's little to go on and that they would be relying on people to come forward with information and that they do want to build up a clearer picture of Angela and her life before she vanished.

Her family have never given up on finding her and so if you do know anything about the disappearance of Angela Bradley in Gloucester in January nineteen ninety five, then please do contact police on one oh one or the Missing People Charity via the link in the show notes. Thank you for listening to day nine of twelve Days of Missing Person episodes in December. Stay tuned for Day

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