In March 1980 19 year old Marine Alan Addis travelled to the Falkland Islands with  the Royal Navy. The remote archipelago lies 480km east of the southern tip of Argentina. Alan was there as part of a detachment to train local volunteers in defence skills and equipment. Five months later, after an evening out at a social club in North Arm settlement, East Falkland, Alan vanished without a trace. An inquiry concluded he had probably drowned. However, rumours soon began circulating that Alan had been the victim of foul play and the islands were concealing a dark secret. A secret that has remained hidden to the present day.

*This episode also contains an update, about an arrest made in a case previously featured on Persons Unknown.

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British Newspaper Archive 

Hull Daily Mail
28/08/80
30/12/82
11/02/98
Newcastle Evening Chronicle
20/09/95
Liverpool Echo
28/09/95
Aberdeen Press and Journal
31/08/95
29/09/95
30/09/95
22/01/96
22/08/97
30/12/97
Aberdeen Evening Press
28/09/95
Grimsby Daily Telegraph
05/10/95
Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
13/01/97
28/01/98
Wicklow People
16/07/98
Birmingham Weekly Mercury
11/01/98

Websites

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/654082/2017-07541.pdf

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/857886/Information_regarding_the_titles_of_Alan_Addis_who_dissapeared_in_the_Falklands_islands___2019_12389_03_12.pdf

https://www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metropolitan-police/d/december-2022/assumed-murder-marine-alan-addis-falkland-islands-august1980/

https://www.commandoveterans.org/AlanAddisRM

https://stories.forces.net/missing-in-the-falklands/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/falklands-arrests-over-missing-marine-two-arrested-over-falklands-marine-1603200.html?amp

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