UK UK - Paige Chivers, 15, Blackpool, Lancashire, 26 Aug 2007 **Arrest**

They seem to be finally clamping down on the rings involved with grooming young vulnerable girls. Paige was last seen with a suitcase, so perhaps she's just runaway. If not then it could be the same perpetrator for both missing girls. Also, just had a look on a Blackpool missing site and I wonder if Jade Daniels aged 14, missing in 2007 ever returned. I can't find any more info, so fingers crossed that she did.

http://www.missing-you.net/people/jade-daniels-98202.php
 
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-27305838
7 May 2014 Last updated at 07:06 ET
Paige Chivers murder inquiry: Search on land in Bispham
Police investigating the murder of Blackpool teenager Paige Chivers are searching an area of land. The search area is focussed on an overgrown patch of land off All Hallows Church, Bispham, in Lancashire. The land is close to where a flat was searched recently after a £30,000 reward was offered to help solve the 15-year-old's disappearance.
Her father Frank, 49, was murdered at his home in Layton last year. Sean Conlon, 44, was convicted of his murder and jailed for a minimum of 15 years in January.
 
I see that Charlene Downes who went missing in 2003 and is presumed to have been murdered was linked to Paige Chivers. Both girls seemingly frequented the same fast food takeaway place which seems to have been a hub for grooming and sexual abuse. Why LE could not build a prosecution around these sexual offences is lost on me.

The prosecution of suspects in Downes murder seems to have been completely bungled. How the police got this so wrong seems a crime in itself. Shocked to read the suspects picked up massive compensation, again criminal if these guys were linked with Downes sexually. Would seem to make finding either girl harder.

Hope LE haven't blown the chance to find out what happened to both girls. They certainly seem to linked, too many coincidences. At a guess the girls might have been groomed, abused and then murdered to insure silence.
 
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-29307906

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenager who has been missing since 2007. Paige Chivers, 15, was last seen on August bank holiday in Bispham, Blackpool...

The men, aged 45 and 59 from Blackpool, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempting to pervert the course of justice...

Lancashire Constabulary said the investigation was being treated as a "no body" murder.
 
http://www.itv.com/news/story/2014-09-25/man-accused-of-murdering-teen-girl-missing-since-2007/

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Blackpool teenager Paige Chivers, who went missing seven-years ago. Robert Ewing, 59, appeared at Blackpool's Magistrates court. He is also charged with perverting the course of justice.

Gareth Dewhurst, 45, from Blackpool has been charged with having sex with the corpse of the missing teenager. He was also charged with perverting the course of justice and assisting in the disposal of Paige's body...

Both men were remanded in custody and will appear at Preston Crown Court on Monday 30 September.
 
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/crime/man-denies-murder-of-missing-paige-1-7005319

Robert Ewing, 60, of Kincraig Place, Blackpool appeared at Preston Crown Court on Monday where he denied murdering the Bispham teenager between August 23, 2007 and August 27, 2007. Ewing also pleaded not guilty to doing acts intended to pervert the course of public justice...

Co-defendant Gareth Dewhurst, 45, of Duncan Avenue, Blackpool denies the same offence. Dewhurst also pleaded not guilty to additional charges of sex offence and assisting an offender in disposing of Paige’s body between the dates of August 23, 2007 and August 27, 2007.

Both men will face trial on April 14 next year. The trial is scheduled to last up to 12 weeks.
 
This case smells. It seems the police entered the wrong birth date for Paige Chivers when she was reported missing, causing delay because it showed a 45 year old missing (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-32286204). Given the extreme reluctance of the police to deal with grooming issues until recently, and the specific failures of the Lancashire force, it makes you wonder if this was deliberate. In 2007 the police knew all about such activity, and there were many links with politicians in other cases, providing plenty of motives for interference with investigations.
 
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/n...urder-trial-jury-hears-covert-tapes-1-7258282

The jury in the Paige Chivers murder trial listened to covert recording of conversations between the man accused of her murder and his co-accused.

The recordings were made as police stepped up their investigations, years after the teenager’s disappearance from her home in Longford Avenue, Bispham, in 2007. The muffled recordings were taken from the homes of Robert Ewing, 60, and Gareth Dewhurst.

The prosecution claim that 15-year-old Paige was killed at Ewing’s flat on All Hallows Road, Bispham.
 
Is this linked to the horrendous "chopped up in a kebab" cases...?
(*goes off for a google*)
 
Paige Chivers: Murder accused removed flooring

A man accused of murdering a teenager from Lancashire removed carpet and flooring tiles from his home shortly after she disappeared because of his smelly cat, a court heard.

The court heard pages of his diary had been torn out during 2007 - the year Paige disappeared.

He said he suffered from memory loss and would write entries as reminders, and had removed them when no longer required.
 
Missing Paige 'may still be alive'
Last updated: 26 June 2015, 17:40 BST

snipped
A 15-year-old alleged murder victim could still be alive eight years after her disappearance, a court has heard.

A jury at Preston Crown Court was told they could not rule out the possibility that Paige Chivers was not dead and could be living outside the UK.

Robert Ewing, 60, is said to have groomed the "very troubled and vulnerable" Blackpool youngster before he beat her to death, possibly with a hammer, and then disposed of her body.

But in his closing speech to the jury on behalf of Ewing, his barrister Stuart Denney QC suggested the "off the rails" and "wild" teenager had decided to run away and stay away.

He said: "If ever there was a girl who had motive and personality to disappear for good, that girl was Paige Chivers in August 2007.

"We are going to suggest, with reasons connected with her background, there were powerful reasons for Paige Chivers to finally leave home.
 
Robert Ewing has been found guilty and sentenced to 33 years.

At the time of her disappearance he had joined in with EDL/BNP campaigns to push the blame onto the Muslim community.

It's such a sad story, Paige's mother died in 2007, her father was a heroin addict who was murdered in 2014 over £20.
 
Paige-513886.jpg
3939307.jpg
27A2F85100000578-3042180-image-a-123_1429203384580.jpg



On 23rd August 2007, a vulnerable 15 year old girl stuffed some belongings in two carrier bags and left home. Police believe that within the following hours or days she was murdered.

Her body has never been found but police managed to obtain convictions against two men in relation to her death.

Paige’s story is just one element of a sad set of events.

PAIGE CHIVERS

Paige lived at home with her parents Frank Chivers and Sheila Houghton and her younger brother, Jack, in Longford Avenue, Bispham. With her family life reported as ‘dysfunctional’, Paige seemed to become unsettled and rebellious, and by the age of 13 she was expelled from school. With excess time on her hands, Paige began to frequent a flat in All Hallows Road that seemed to be the local hang-out area for young girls. The owner was introduced to her by Tiffany Bell, the ex girlfriend of Paige’s half-brother, Peter Houghton.

When Sheila (mum) became ill, both Paige and Jack were left to fend for themselves, with help forthcoming from family who’d pop in. In February 2007 Sheila passed away. The blow was massive to the family and life became even more chaotic. It’s reported that Frank (father) began drinking and also began a relationship with another woman, offering no support to Paige and Jack as they struggled with their grief. Frank’s new partner, Lorraine Reeky, said Frank had intimated he blamed Paige for Sheila’s death. Frank was known to have a very quick temper and this became noticeable when he lashed out at Paige after finding out she had started taking amphetamines.

Paige’s life had began to spiral out of control with cannabis and alcohol becoming a huge part of her existence, as well as concerns about underage sexual behaviour. Still frequenting the All Hallows Road flat, Paige was seen outside in her underwear and obviously drunk on several occasions. Paige would often go missing for a few days but always return home. She had begun staying over at the flat.

All that aside, it seems that Paige was still trying to turn her life around and in May 2007 she contacted Connexions, a council-run support centre in Blackpool for 13 to 19-year-olds and was set to begin a new educational course.

13th AUGUST 2007

On 13th August 2007, the owner of the All Hallows Road flat telephoned police stating that he was concerned for the welfare of a girl he “just vaguely” knew after she had been thrown out of her home, although he did not know where she lived – which was a lie. He claimed he had sent her back home and was telephoning for police advice, but did not give his name. There was little advice forthcoming. In fact, the police were disinterested and this, the prosecution eventually claimed, was a tester as to whether she was on a radar.

It later transpired that the call was made from a telephone box right outside the police station.

DISAPPEARANCE

On 23rd August 2007, a furious Frank had telephoned Jack (her step brother) remarking of Paige that he would “kill her” when he returned home after discovering she had taken money from his wallet, as she had also recently used his bank card without permission. When Jack relayed this to Paige, she threw her clothes into two carrier bags and left. Jack followed her down the road and Paige asked him to go with her but he refused. When Frank returned home, his daughter had gone. He later told police that despite their fights, they both loved each other very much.

Jack watched Paige walk away and was the last family member to see her alive. Not long after, two of his friends saw her at a bus stop heading to an appointment at Connexions for which she never arrived. She was with an older man…

THE GROOMING OF PAIGE

Robert Ewing was a 52-year old convicted paedophile whose flat at All Hallows Road had become the local gathering place for young teenage girls, where he allowed them to drink and take drugs.

Having been introduced to Ewing by her brother’s ex-girlfriend, Tiffany Bell, Paige’s vulnerability and dysfunctional domesticity was preyed upon by Ewing, who saw his opportunity and seized it.

Despite his protestations, Ewing had an “inappropriate sexual interest” in Paige and slowly groomed her. This was eventually proved when photographs of Paige were found on his phone, but his advances must have been unwanted as it is believed that during the summer of 2007, Paige threatened to report Ewing to the authorities.

WHAT POLICE BELIEVE HAPPENED

This must have triggered Ewing, knowing that any complaint to police about impropriety would land him back in jail. It’s believed that when Ewing made the phone call on 13th August, he was doing so to test the water. Telling the police of his concern for a “problem child” had been met with total disinterest and so it was at that point that Ewing had made his decision to kill Paige and cover his tracks. When she turned up at his home on 23rd August with her belongings, he seized his opportunity and killed her on that day or at some point over that Bank Holiday weekend.

On 26th August, three days after Jack watched his sister walk away, Frank reported his daughter missing, at which point Paige was almost certainly dead.


THE INVESTIGATION BLUNDERS

When Frank finally reported his daughter missing on 26th August, the police call handler managed to input her year of birth incorrectly on the computer system. Instead of 1992, her date of birth was entered as 1962, and to make matters worse, it was also logged that Paige had gone missing of her own accord and so the crucial early days of an investigation were lost when police were looking for a missing 45-year old woman and not a vulnerable 15-year old girl. Unsurprisingly, the search for Paige was futile and it wasn’t until 7th September that the error was realised and rectified.

It’s believed that this 12-day period enabled Ewing to cover his tracks… temporarily.

TIFFANY BELL

Tiffany Bell was arrested in January 2008 and questioned by police about Paige’s disappearance. She and Paige had known each other for five years and it was Tiffany who first introduced her to Ewing. She was released without charge, but lost custody of her child. Five months later she contacted police and stated that Dewhurst had said something about Paige’s disappearance. Bell couldn’t remember making that call.

Bell had also spent nights at Ewing’s flat.

THE CONFESSION

Gareth Dewhurst, 46, of Duncan Road, Bispham, was a friend of Ewing and had started a relationship with a woman named Mary Washer in April 2008. During a few conversations he had mentioned Paige to Mary claiming that Paige and another girl would ‘prostitute themselves.’

During a late-night drink and cannabis-smoking session, Mary overheard a conversation between Dewhurst and her 16-year old son, Michael, in which he said he had taken a call from a friend called ‘Bob’ and gone to his flat in All Hallows Road. There he found Paige dead and that Ewing had forced him to have sex with Paige before also confessing that he helped to dispose of Paige’s body using his car, but refused to divulge where her body was taken, stating “I can’t tell you that, it’s too dangerous.”

Dewhurst explained how he and ‘Bob’ had put Paige’s body in the boot of his car. He was frightened that he was going to get arrested, or that Bob would kill him and so he wanted to set his car on fire to destroy any evidence. Mary and Michael gave statements to the police soon after.

FINALLY PIECING TOGETHER THE EVIDENCE

In January 2008, Ewing was arrested and questioned but denied any involvement in her disappearance or sexual contact with Paige beforehand. When asked why he allowed Paige into his home, he said that he used to let everyone in.

In May 2008, Dewhurst strangely turned up at Bispham Police Station asking to speak with a detective as he believed he was suspected of killing Paige. Claiming he had only met Paige three or four times before her disappearance, he denied any involvement. In an even more bizarre twist, that same month Dewhurst went to Blackpool Police Station and gave a witness statement.

Police used covert listening equipment in Dewhurst’s car and Ewing’s flat at different periods over three years in order to obtain evidence. Eventually spots of blood matching Paige’s DNA were discovered at Ewing’s flat. Ewing claimed this had come from a cut on Paige’s arm, but forensic specialists were able to prove that the blood pattern was not consistent with a single cut.

It was also noted that a piece of carpet had been replaced. Ewing claimed that this was done after a cat had urinated on the previous one.

WITNESS INTIMIDATION

When Dewhurst learned that Mary and Michael had provided evidence to the police, a campaign of intimidation ensued. Abusive letters (with Dewhurst’s fingerprints on the envelope), threats of violence, attempting to attack Michael with a rusty machete and breaking their windows were all part of his campaign. Ewing also gave false information to Crimestoppers about the family.

Their deviance knowing no bounds and with a show of absolutely no remorse, they also laid a number of false trails for the investigation. Ewing even went so far as to blame two other people of Paige’s murder – one being a severely ill man in the hope he would die and bring the murder investigation to a close.

HOW CAN IT BE MURDER WITHOUT A BODY?

Police undertook an extensive ‘proof of life’ investigation and failed to find any evidence that Paige was still alive. She was also due to inherit a significant sum of money from her mother when she turned 18, but this was never claimed.

CONVICTIONS

And so, eight years after she first disappeared, Ewing and Dewhurst appeared at Preston Crown Court charged with her murder/accessory to murder.

(more at link)
MURDER FILES: PAIGE CHIVERS
 
21 January 2016
PAIGE CHIVERS: Officially declared dead

A verdict of unlawful killing was returned at an inquest today, which was opened following the conclusion of the murder trial that saw her killer jailed for 33 years.

Her grandfather was the only member of family present at Blackpool Town Hall for the hearing, which brings to an end a painful chapter in their lives.

The ruling means the 15-year-old’s death can be formally registered despite her body never being found since she went missing in August 2007.

Police today vowed to keep up the search for Paige and urged her killer and his accomplice to reveal where they hid the body. Det Chief Insp Mark Rothwell,the deputy senior investigating officer on the case, said after the hearing: “This is the end of another chapter – however the book won’t be closed until we find Paige’s body.

PAIGE CHIVERS: Officially declared dead
 
i wouldent be suprised if he want involved in the other dispearence
 

Members online

Online statistics

Members online
196
Guests online
2,256
Total visitors
2,452

Forum statistics

Threads
589,955
Messages
17,928,266
Members
228,016
Latest member
ignoreme123
Back
Top