Award Put Out For Man Missing for over 30 Years | Lee Boxell
Lee Boxell’s family is desperate to find out more about his disappearance 34 years later.
On Saturday, September 10th, 1988, 15-year-old Lee Boxell disappeared in Sutton England, never to be seen again.
That morning, Lee left his home in Cheam to meet a friend in Sutton. The pair went window shopping for a couple of hours. Around 1 pm that day, they parted ways. Lee told his friend he might go to Selhurst Park, a football stadium, to watch the match between Charlton Athletic Football Club and Millwall Foot Ball Club.
Lee would never make it to the game.
The last place a witness claimed to have seen Lee Boxell was outside Tesco on Sutton High Street around 2:20 pm that day. No one has seen the boy since.
A witness did come forward in 2012. They said that Boxell had attended an unofficial “youth club” at St Dunstan’s Church in Cheam. It was called “The Shed,” and is described as an outbuilding at the church where teenagers would hang out.
The police were previously unaware and found that pedophiles were operating in the area when Boxell had disappeared.
75-year-old Will Lambert, who ran the Shed, was arrested in 2011. He had been arrested for sexually abusing four girls that frequented the Shed. Parts of St Dunstan’s Church graveyard have been excavated, but Lee has not been found.
In 2013, the year that Lee would turn 40, Crimewatch appealed for information based on the theory that Boxell had gone to the Shed on the day of his disappearance. An allegation of sexual abuse arose after this appeal leading to the theory that Lee may have intervened to stop sexual abuse and died because of it.
34 years after Lee Boxell’s disappearance, Crimestoppers, an independent charity in the United Kingdom, has put out a £20,000 reward to help solve Lee’s case.
His family is hoping that someone will come forward with information about what happened. They would like to see their son finally laid to rest.
“We’re desperate for someone to come forward and tell us what happened to Lee which may ultimately help find his remains if he was murdered as we fear,” Peter Boxwell, Lee’s father, said. “It’s a race against time now we’re in our 70s — but you can help us, and his sister, niece and nephew finally know what happened and have some closure — so please, do what’s right.”
Anyone with information can contact Crimestoppers on freephone 0800 555 111 or use a secure anonymous online form at www.crimestoppers-uk.org. Nobody will know you contacted the charity.
Information passed directly to police will not qualify for the reward — only information passed to Crimestoppers will qualify.