Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to The Unseen Podcast, a podcast
Speaker 1: dedicated to missing people, unresolved cases, and UK true crime.
Speaker 1: Today's day nine of twelve days of missing person cases
Speaker 1: throughout December. Thirty four year old Angela Bradley disappeared from
Speaker 1: Gloucester in January nineteen ninety five and has not been
Speaker 1: seen since. This episode is about a missing person and
Speaker 1: so does not contain any descriptions of violence. However, there
Speaker 1: is some mention of an eating disorder and suicide, so
Speaker 1: listener discretion is advised. Mythe Bridge spans the River seven
Speaker 1: at Tewkesbury. Tewksbury is a market town in Gloucestershire which
Speaker 1: is famous for their abbey. Mythe Bridge is an arch
Speaker 1: bridge and is a Grade two listed structure. In January
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, a white citron Ax car was parked
Speaker 1: next to Myyth Bridge. The car itself stood out to
Speaker 1: passers by because there were keys still in the ignition.
Speaker 1: This in itself was unusual and so this car was
Speaker 1: reported to the police. When police looked into the registered
Speaker 1: owner of the car, they found it to be thirty
Speaker 1: four year old Angela Bradley. Angela worked as a librarian
Speaker 1: and lived in Gloucester with some housemates. Her brother later
Speaker 1: described her as a very intelligent woman. They discovered that
Speaker 1: around seven pm on the sixteenth of January nineteen ninety five,
Speaker 1: Angela left her home. She had not returned and hadn't
Speaker 1: contacted her housemates or her family. The discovery of her
Speaker 1: car next to Myyth Bridge with the keys in the
Speaker 1: ignition now added even more concern to this missing person case.
Speaker 1: Gloucestershire police began to try and delve into Angela's life
Speaker 1: to establish her movements before she disappeared. Angela's housemates told
Speaker 1: police that when she left the home at around seven
Speaker 1: pm that night, she told them that she was late
Speaker 1: and that she had to go. The housemates didn't know
Speaker 1: at what exactly she was late for, and clearly this
Speaker 1: only took on more significance when Angela didn't return. Her
Speaker 1: family were also able to provide some background on Angela
Speaker 1: at the time that she went missing. Her brother Philip
Speaker 1: told the press that Angela had been suffering from anorexia
Speaker 1: and depression for a while before she disappeared, and had
Speaker 1: spent time in Coney Hill Mental Hospital as a result
Speaker 1: of her eating disorder. Coney Hill closed in nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 1: and it was at this point that she was placed
Speaker 1: in the home in Gloucester where she was living in
Speaker 1: January nineteen ninety five. Philip also explain that Angela had
Speaker 1: been visiting her parents on the weekend that she disappeared.
Speaker 1: It's unclear if Angela had been with her parents and
Speaker 1: then gone back to her home in Gloucester before leaving
Speaker 1: again at around seven pm. It was clear, though, that
Speaker 1: Angela was a vulnerable person at the time that she
Speaker 1: went missing, and there were many reasons why her family
Speaker 1: and friends wanted her to be found as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: Angela left her car keys in the ignition and must
Speaker 1: have gone wherever she was going on foot or perhaps
Speaker 1: in another person's car. Angela's brother, Philip, later explained that
Speaker 1: the prevailing theory of the case since it happened was
Speaker 1: that Angela must have taken her own life and she
Speaker 1: must have been in the river due to her background
Speaker 1: as a vulnerable person. He said quote there was never
Speaker 1: any other theory put forward. Philip explained that his family,
Speaker 1: including his parents, never believed that this was the case, saying,
Speaker 1: my parents never believed it. My mother thought she was
Speaker 1: still out there alive somewhere, but my father thought other
Speaker 1: things had happened. He didn't know what, but he didn't
Speaker 1: think she'd committed suicide. We had a lot of conversations
Speaker 1: about what might have happened. It's a total mystery. There
Speaker 1: did seem to be little to go on, with not
Speaker 1: a lot of evidence being presented about what could have
Speaker 1: happened and their fare, the case began to stall quite
Speaker 1: early on. In twenty sixteen, the case was reopened by
Speaker 1: Gloucestershire Police and they once again appealed for anyone with
Speaker 1: information to come forward. Inspector Andy Matheson said, we don't
Speaker 1: know if Angela has been murdered. We don't know if
Speaker 1: Angela took her own life. We don't know if she's
Speaker 1: decided to disappear and reinvent herself and is still alive
Speaker 1: and well somewhere else. Obviously the outcome we're hoping for.
Speaker 1: He stated that the National Crime Agency were involved in
Speaker 1: the reopening of the case. Philip explained in twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: that his parents had died without knowing what happened to Angela,
Speaker 1: and that their family would very much like to know
Speaker 1: that they'd lived in Limbo without knowing all these years.
Speaker 1: Despite the reopening of the case in twenty sixteen, there
Speaker 1: hasn't been much progress documented about Angela and the investigation
Speaker 1: which has been conducted by Gloucestershire Police. They have been
Speaker 1: quite clear that there's little to go on and that
Speaker 1: they would be relying on people to come forward with
Speaker 1: information and that they do want to build up a
Speaker 1: clearer picture of Angela and her life before she vanished.
Speaker 1: Her family have never given up on finding her and
Speaker 1: so if you do know anything about the disappearance of
Speaker 1: Angela Bradley in Gloucester in January nineteen ninety five, then
Speaker 1: please do contact police on one oh one or the
Speaker 1: Missing People Charity via the link in the show notes.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to day nine of twelve Days
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