My brother vanished from a Christmas party – his search was ruined by TWO key errors… 2 years later I have no answers

A MAN whose member went disappeared from a Christmas enactment 2 has claimed cops made 2 important mistakes during the search.

Daniel Hives, past 28, disappeared aft leaving a location enactment successful Lancaster connected December 10, 2022.

He had tally from the spot on the River Lune aft becoming progressive successful a combat - though the others progressive were aboriginal discounted from the investigation.

Daniel was ne'er heard from again, with astir nary caller leads implicit the 26 months since his disappearance.

But his member Robbie, 25, thinks things could person been different.

He claimed the stream was not searched for the next 11 days pursuing Daniel's disappearance, a assertion disputed by police.

Robbie told the Sun: "I bash deliberation it was a disservice that it took them 11 days to get successful there.

"I was primitively told that the stream had frozen, which I aboriginal recovered retired from an serviceman had not happened successful the 40 years he'd worked there."

However, a spokesperson for Lancashire Constabulary told the Sun that the stream was searched by Lancashire Fire and the Rescue Service swift h2o squad connected December 15 - 3 days aft Daniel went missing.

A spokesperson added: "The stream banking was besides extensively searched by officers connected ft and with hunt dogs."

Robbie besides believes that a captious portion of accusation was omitted by cops successful the missing idiosyncratic appeals.

He added: "It ne'er stated that helium had 2 tracksuits on. He was wearing a khaki greenish Under Armour 1 underneath a Hugo Boss bluish one. The reports lone talked astir the navy bluish one, which was connected the CCTV.

"We tried to marque it nationalist cognition arsenic soon arsenic we could. Because obviously, if helium has decided to run, you know, and helium has decided to spell missing himself, the archetypal happening he’d person done was instrumentality his apparel disconnected and alteration his appearance.

"We thought that was decidedly a large cardinal spot of accusation that actually, 20 radical mightiness person seen him but not realised they'd seen him due to the fact that helium wasn't wearing the apparel that matched the description. That was a small spot disheartening."

In effect to this, the unit said that they were not alert of the item until overmuch later.

The spokesperson said: "Regarding the tracksuit, the accusation astir Daniel wearing a 2nd tracksuit was lone communicated to america connected 26/3/2023, truthful wasn’t included successful the 5 missing from location appeals which went retired successful December 2022."

Harking backmost to his childhood, Robbie said helium and Daniel were practically inseparable.

"We were ever really, truly adjacent with each other", helium said.

Daniel was a happy-go-lucky type, who ne'er shied distant from adventure.

"He was the 1 that benignant of held america each up," Robbie added. "Any clip that we were down oregon anything, he'd beryllium the 1 trying to cheer you up and marque you laugh.

"You could ne'er beryllium dull astir him. And I cognize for a fact, helium evidently carried that done each the way, each the mode up until evidently helium went missing.

"And obviously, I anticipation he’s inactive got that successful him now."

About 10 years ago, Daniel made the determination to determination to Preston successful Lancashire to "search for bigger and amended things".

Although the close-knit brothers present lived miles distant from each other, they ever kept successful regular contact.

"We ever knew wherever each different were and that each different was safe."

"We would substance adjacent capable each day. We’d spot each different connected peculiar holidays."

Daniel's twenties were not without trouble, and helium spent immoderate clip successful prison.

But, the twelvemonth of his disappearance, the brothers were connected arsenic bully presumption arsenic ever.

Shortly earlier the events of December 10, they had adjacent been organising however they would get unneurotic for Christmas.

By this point, Robbie was surviving successful Newbury, Berkshire, moving arsenic an relation astatine a section fairground.

It was determination that helium received the devastating telephone telephone that Daniel had gone missing.

"It was a mean time astatine the fairground, rather jolly, rather Christmassy, Christmas euphony everywhere. And past I got a substance a connection petition travel done from who I yet recovered retired was Daniel's woman to accidental that she needed to speech to maine successful private.

"So I went and spoke to my boss, asked to permission for a minute, and that's erstwhile I recovered retired that Dan had been reported missing.

"I unopen down, to beryllium rather honest. I didn't ringing anybody. I didn't speech to anybody. I conscionable needed that infinitesimal to benignant of process what really was conscionable said to me.

"It was truly hard. There are truthful galore emotions going done your head. You’re reasoning of however you're going to find him and however you're going to really get to him. You don't adjacent cognize wherever to start.

"I rang a fewer of his friends that I knew from erstwhile years due to the fact that I was successful disbelief. I didn't judge that this could person ever happened to idiosyncratic similar him.

"I was like, is this really true? What is really going on?" Then I got the fig of the CID due to the fact that I wanted to speech to them and fig retired what was going on."

Two years since then, Robbie has been forced to face the anticipation that Daniel has travel to superior harm.

"I sadly don't judge helium is inactive with us. Obviously, I've got that spot of anticipation due to the fact that determination is nary confirmation of anything. But yeah, I bash judge that possibly the worse has comes to the worst.

"And plus, I cognize it sounds a spot silly, but it's amended to deliberation of worst, yea and beryllium pleasantly surprised, than anticipation and commune for the champion and beryllium adjacent much distraught precocious down the line."

But contempt his suspicions, the devoted member continues to rise consciousness astir Daniel's disappearance connected birthdays and anniversaries.

At the latest event, helium was amazed by the outpouring of emotion for Daniel.

"It shocked me, you know, successful a beauteous way, it shocked maine to spot however overmuch enactment helium did person and however galore radical evidently cared astir him."