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Breaking News - The Mystery of Lee Sheppard Solved
An eight year mystery surrounding the disappearance of Northland man Lee Sheppard has finally been resolved.
After a three week Coroners Inquest in front of a nine person jury, it was established that Lee died in an Industrial Accident at work on 31 January 2003.
On January 30, 2003, Lee went to work at the EMR metal recycler in Willesden having learned a few days before that his wife, Juliet, was pregnant. She did not see him again.
Juliet had earlier told the inquest of the frantic phone calls she made to her husband the day he went missing.
Despite police involvement, Lee, who would now be 34 with a seven-year-old son, Jaden, was never located.
In 2006 the family hired Private Investigator Ron McQuilter and it took two years before the Met Police allowed access to the file. Ron then travelled to London in November 2008 and together with DS Andy Goodwin, the pair broke the Police file down and started again, resulting in them determining Lee died at work but the Police at the time failed to find the obvious.
The Secretary of State then ordered an Inquest based on the new findings by the two seasoned investigators.
Speaking after the inquest's conclusion, Juliet said "after eight years I don't know how I feel right now".
"I always believed that Lee wouldn't have just run off from us all as family and so I knew something must have happened but I just didn't know what," she said.
The Sheppard family are now considering whether to take legal action against EMR. A long awaited memorial service is planned.
http://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/cricklewood_man_died_in_work_accident_eight_years_ago_1_815999
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/kiwis-disappearance-mystery-no-more-2423344