‘My brother went out the door and disappeared’

The sister of a man who disappeared about five years ago has said that his family “hope of hope” that he would see him again.

Emma Miller said that her elder brother James Miller, 38, left only 23:00 GMT on 22 December 2020 and left the family’s house in Warington with only her wallet.

CCTV footage from a hair salon on the same road showed him turning a corner and visually disappeared.

Emma said that she was something wrong when James did not work for work the next day.

Emma said that the family wanted to renew the appeal for any information, which could help James find for four years and eight months.

35 -year -old Emma said: “In a way, we don’t cope because it is always in your mind. There is not a minute of the day when we don’t think about it.

“I drive around and I can see someone and think that it is that.”

He said it was difficult but the family had to live his life “in Limbo”.

“I have really bad days. I think we all do,” he said.

He said that some reports of James were made in the last few years, but they had not brought the family closer to find it.

James’ grandfather, who was like his father, died after James disappeared.

Emma said: “This is even more destructive because I don’t know if James knows that he has passed away.”

“We hope and this is a big thing,” said Emma.

“If he is reading it, we would like to say how much we love him and we remember him.

“We hope he is safe. The door is always open to him.”

Emma said her mother was in bed when she heard the door in front of her house on Slater Street, Lachford, Open.

He looked out of the window to see James walking on the road.

CCTV footage of Colin Williams hairdresser showed him walking on the road and turning to the right on Florence Street, leading to Natsford Road.

He was wearing a white T-shirt, gray jogging bottom and navy blue trainer.

“He went right and then completely disappeared,” said Ms. Miller.

“It was raining that night and we had snow. It was cold.”

Emma said her brother had signs of depression for a few years and passing through the lockdown during the coronvirus epidemic “actually took a toll on it”.

He said that James had created a gearbox for a business in Wournington, then called Black Diamond and now called Warington Transmission.

Emma said she was something wrong when a work colleague called her to say that she did not turn to work on 23 December.

She said that she used to work since she was younger and “always went to work, even though she was a very night”.

He said that James supported the Wournington Volves Rugby team and Bolton Wanderers FC and he often traveled to the country watching the Wournington Volves Games together.

He said: “He is a good boy. He is quite shy until you know him, and then he is the party’s life.”

He said that he was the “best uncle in the world” and loved his niece and nephews, as well as enjoying a bike ride with a Trans Penin cycle path.

Emma said that her brother had a specific curved mark on the side of her head after an operation to remove a gentle brain tumor, when he was small.

He said that the families were grateful to the support of the Cheshire police, the charity of the missing people and the local community.

Every year on the anniversary of its disappearance, the family has a candlelight vigilance for James at the nearby Victoria Park, where James regularly went to the family’s picnic.