MARTIN ALLEN 1979 

VANISHED 15 YEARS OF AGE LONDON 

Martin Allen vanished on November 5th 1979 in London. This blog aims to make a very complicated abduction easier to understand. 

AI enhanced image of the man who abducted Martin Allen in 1979, painted by the Police Artist, Hubert Andrew Freeth (1912–1986).

This painting was done using the help of the six main witnesses, all giving a description of a 6 foot man with blonde hair. It has recently been enhanced using AI technology.

Martin Allen left school early, with a friend, Dave, the day he vanished, but waited at Old Street Station, on his own, for over half an hour. Was he intending to meet someone at Gloucester Road Station at 4-10 pm?

Martin waited at Old Street Station until 3-35pm for his school friends, and travelled on a train with them to Kings Cross Station.

During that journey Martin's friends said he was in very good spirits, very funny and making jokes. He told his friends that he was going to stay with this older bother that night, who lived near Holloway Road tube station.

However he told them he was going home to fetch £1 that he owed to his brothers wife first.

Martin was afraid of the dark, and he would have known that he would not reach Holloway Road before it was dark, which makes little sense because had he gone home straight after leaving school early, he would have been in good time, why did he wait.

However Martin did not return home that evening, or arrive at his older brothers house, and was not noticed missing until the next evening. Martins older brother was not on the phone, and assumed that Martin had decided to go to a Bonfire Night Party instead.

That evening he was reported missing to the Police at Kensington Police Station. After some publicity witnesses started to report seeing a schoolboy, in school uniform, carrying a yellow Astral bag, accompanied by a six foot blonde man, at both Gloucester Road Station, and Earls Court Station.