September 1, 2010
We are coming up to 14 years since we have seen Damien
and this year we are going to do a grass roots appeal. This
has been organized by a friend on the IW with the help of
local businesses and family support and more details will
follow....
October 2009
Damien will have been missing 13 years on November 2,
2009. ForeverSearching will be profiling Damien for
publicity. Also on November 1st, Damien will be featured in
the live webcast from LA by band, Clemstreet as part of the
Squeaky Wheel Tour. Please see links www.411gina.org
Still looking for our beautiful boy and wondering what happened.
May 2009
Damien to be featured in International Missing Children's Day
Where? South Bank, London - The event will be held on Monday 18th May 2009, at The
National Theatre, South Bank, London in their new venue 'The Deck'.with some key
players from the charitable sector. A balloon arch is planned with the balloons
showing 5 missing children from each of the 17 Global Missing Children Network
(GMCN) members countries, approximately 85 children will be shown.
> Due to International Children's day occurring on a Bank Holiday, the event will take
place on Monday 18th May at 2.30pm.
NPIA and MIssing People are participating in the International Missing Children's Day
(Bank Holiday Monday - 25th May) in co-ordination with the Australian Federal Police,
the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC Washington - USA)
and other partners of the Global Missing Children's Network. Missing Children Europe
and its associated NGOs are also involved.
Forever Searching are organising a March for the Missing in
Leicester on Sunday 24th May, all are welcome to attend please
go to their website www.foreversearching.com for further
details.
Missing People and AdMedia team up to help Keep the Search
Alive for the missing....
www.missingpeople.org.uk/keepthesearchalive/
JANUARY 14, 2009
ANOTHER YEAR BEGINS, AND WE ARE NOT GIVING UP EVEN
IF THE POLICE APPEAR TO BE!
WE ARE APPEALING FOR ANYONE TO CONTACT US WITH
WHAT THEY MAY KNOW OR HAVE HEARD ABOUT WHAT
HAPPENED TO DAMIEN. AT THIS POINT THE POLICE JUST
ABOUT WASHED THEIR HANDS OF DAMIEN...THEY DON'T
WANT TO KEEP FOLLOWING LEADS AND WE SUSPECT THAT
THERE MAY BE LEADS THEY WERE GIVEN IN THE EARLY
DAYS THAT THEY HAVE NOT FOLLOWED UP ON, SO WE
NEED TO FIND OUR OWN. WE ARE ON OUR OWN AND WE
NEED YOUR HELP TO BRING SOME CLOSURE.
WHAT HAPPENED TO DAMIEN NETTLES
November 2nd, 2008
Damien was featured today in a live webcast on Sunday
November 2nd, 2008 by the LA, California based band
Clementine. This was an amazing webcast.
Music was played by the band and UK artist Darius Lux. There
were several people from the UK featured who either went
missing in the UK or were UK citizens who went missing abroad.
There was an opportunity during the webcast for people to
send emails that were read live on the webcast.
We, the families who were featured, are very grateful for our
missing family members to be included.
This is an amazing new and unique way to get the message
across about missing people by using popular music as a
venue to draw attention to the whole missing people issue.
A BIG thanks to the UK group Forever Searching
www.foreversearching.com for making this possible! You are
really are an awesome dedicated group who truly have the
interests of each family at heart!
Please go to www.411gina.org for more information about the
band and what they do for the missing.
Or www.foreversearching.com
I will be going to the band's Dallas performance which will be
held at Poor David's Pub on Lamar in Dallas on November 7th,
2008. I hope any of the Dallas crew will join us there.
2nd annual March for the Missing
March for the Missing will again be held in London on March 18, 2009.
We are working on getting as many families and friends of the
missing to join us in this very important event to highlight the
phenomenon of people going missing every year and the families
left behind to cope. We again are entreating our MP's to bring this to
the attention of ministers in Westminster to help fund some support
group that can give practicle help and advice to family when a loved
one goes missing.
May 15th 2008
Damien will be featured on the Missing Live program on Friday May
16th at 9.15 a.m. The program can also be accessed online
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00b09tz.shtml
I have pasted the link, unfortunately, it is only available for UK
viewers only. As I am in the States, I cannot watch it, but have folk
out there who will tape it for me and send it. Wish I could be there
myself.
If anyone has any information please call the Hampshire
Constabulary 0845 045 45 45 or please contact the Missing People
Charity 0500 700 700.
We miss Damien every day, please can someone tell us what
happened to him? We really need to know even if it is the worst case
scenario, we cannot rest until we find out.
My nephew, Sam, is doing a presentation to his school today about
the phenomenon of Missing People and they will do a fund raiser for
the Charity. May 25th is International Missing Children's Day. We are
all very proud of Sam for having the courage to stand before his
school and tell of our struggle as a family and how it affects those
who are left behind. It affects everyone, although Sam was only a
baby when Damien went missing, he has an awareness that other
children don't. He has grown up with the feeling of loss in the family
and witnessed our struggles. The next generation will carry on the
search. My younger nephew, Callum who is only 8 tells me that
when he grows up, he is going to find Damien.
One thing we must remember and that is not all people who go
missing are 'children'. Many adults, young and old disappear, leaving
behind valued items and taking nothing with them, out of character,
and we must focus on all missing people.
www.missingpeople.org.uk/missingpeopleTV/media-coverage/clip.asp?dsid=1300
It has been a tough year. Nicki Durbin (Luke Durbin's mother) and I
got our heads together with the help of Jill Blonsky, and we
organized the March for the Missing which took place in London on
March 12, 2008. I returned to the UK to take part in the March and
represent Damien, with my family and friends who came to support
us. The families missing people and friends gathered at the Raoul
Wallenberg Statue, in Great Cumberland Square. We marched to
Trafalgar Square, where we held a ceremony, reading out the names
of some missing people. It was a great day. We had a full police
escort and we certainly turned heads in the city of London as we
made our message felt.
It has been exhausting, but well worth all the effort and hopefully we
have started the ball rolling for getting some help and guidelines in
place to help the families left behind and to help with future families
who may suffer through the agony of having a loved one go missing.
We suffered some anguish when recently Damien's name had been
found to be used by someone who steals the identity of missing
persons, the police investigated this and found that this person has
done this before. It caused us a lot of unnecessary distress. I hope
they lock him up and throw away the key! And people like him that
prey on the sensitivity and vulnerability of the family that is already
going through hell.
JANUARY 2008
Yet another year rolls around.
Please see the link below, we are trying to get a reward offered for Damien and I would ask anyone who has
the power to help with this to please contact us:
www.iwcp.co.uk/News/REWARD_SOUGHT_IN_DAMIEN_MYSTERY.aspx
December 2007
Nicki Durbin and I are trying to get families of the missing together to make our voices heard by the
government. We are in need of long term support as the families left behind when a loved one goes
missing. No matter what the reasons are that someone goes missing, it leaves the family torn apart.
Please read our aims set out in a letter on this website
November 2007
11th Anniversary
Damien Nettles, Missing from Isle of Wight 1996
Friday November 2, 2007 will mark the 11th anniversary of my son, Damien Richard Nettles going missing.
He went out with friends and visited East Cowes, before returning across the River Medina to Cowes on the
western side of the Island. He was seen around town with his friend Chris until he and Chris decided to
start to walk home. At around 10.30 p.m. he and Chris parted company at the corner of Northwood Park. It
was later learned that Damien returned to the High St. area. He was reportedly asking acquaintances
whether they had seen his sister Sarah. He seemed to think she may be around and she had mentioned
that she might come home from Portsmouth University. She did not, but he had it in his head she might be
somewhere. He was seen by several people. He was caught on a security video inside Yorkie’s Chip Shop
on Cowes High St. at approximately 11.35 to 11.40 p.m. He was surrounded by several men, only two have
ever been identified. The Hampshire Constabulary have pictures of the chip shop video on their website in
Damien’s casebook. Please click the following link Hampshire Constabulary: Casebook - Damien Nettles I
would beg everyone to please take time to scrutinize these pictures. Please also visit Missing People. And
UK Missing Children's Website
Damien was then seen on the CCTV camera’s on the High St. We left the chip shop around 11.40 p.m. and
was seen walking toward the Co-op, which is the bus stop. Several people reported seeing and speaking to
him there. He apparently was thought to be acting in an odd manner, which may be attributed to have been
drinking cider earlier in the evening. He left the bus stop and was again seen on the CCTV film walking back
along the High St., past the entrance to the pontoon and the last sighting was around 12.02 a.m. under a
camera by the across from the Indian Restaurant and right before Sun Hill. He was not seen anywhere on
any camera along the High St. after that point. We watched the camera footage until around the 12.30 a.m.
mark, but he was never picked up on the other CCTV camera’s. So after approaching the junction of Sun
Hill, he was never seen again.
This is still an active case and I would like to appeal to the public to cast your minds back to that time and if
you heard of any rumor or think you might know something, please just let us know. We want to know what
happened to Damien and we cannot rest until we have some kind of closure. Call the anonymous number at
the Missing People 0500 700 700 or the Hampshire Constabulary 0845 045 45 45. Or email us at
valnett@yahoo.com or themissing@hotmail.co.uk.
October 2007
10/20 It is hard to believe that it is nearly 11 years since we have seen or heard from Damien. We love him
and miss him so much. We just need closure. The police and the Missing Peoples Charity are going to do
some kind of press release. We are hopeful that someone will have information to pass to the police that
might give us some kind of hope that we will know the truth about what happened to Damien. I wish that
just for one moment that I could give him a hug and tell him how much we all love and miss him. If anyone
knows anything, please tell us. Val.
The police have completed their review. We were visited by an officer from Hants Constab in July who
appraised us of their findings. We are still hoping for a miracle. If anyone out there knows something,
please give us the information that we need to bring closure. I am considering returning around the
anniversary of Damien going missing. We miss Damien every day. Will someone help us? Tell us what
happened?
May 2007
Damien has been missing now for nearly eleven years. He was 16 when he went missing for no apparent
reason. Damien's 27 birthday is on June 21, 2007. It is midsummers day, the longest day of the year.
We continue to look for answers to his disappearance. We have continued to keep contact with the police
and recently, I made a complaint to the Police Complaints Commission. This resulted in what has been
almost a year of review of the case one officer. It was decided that rather than use a team of officers, it
would be better, in case one piece of evidence might be overlooked that connected to another. This
recently came to a conclusion and it does appear, that on the whole, most lines of enquiry were bottomed
out, there are area's that they can revisit. I am waiting for further contact on a way forward.
Meanwhile, markers in his life that we missed his company. His brother James married last year and now
has a beautiful baby boy who is four months old, named Robert Damien.
There is not a day goes by when we don't think about him.
We are coming up to 14 years since we have seen Damien
and this year we are going to do a grass roots appeal. This
has been organized by a friend on the IW with the help of
local businesses and family support and more details will
follow....
October 2009
Damien will have been missing 13 years on November 2,
2009. ForeverSearching will be profiling Damien for
publicity. Also on November 1st, Damien will be featured in
the live webcast from LA by band, Clemstreet as part of the
Squeaky Wheel Tour. Please see links www.411gina.org
Still looking for our beautiful boy and wondering what happened.
May 2009
Damien to be featured in International Missing Children's Day
Where? South Bank, London - The event will be held on Monday 18th May 2009, at The
National Theatre, South Bank, London in their new venue 'The Deck'.with some key
players from the charitable sector. A balloon arch is planned with the balloons
showing 5 missing children from each of the 17 Global Missing Children Network
(GMCN) members countries, approximately 85 children will be shown.
> Due to International Children's day occurring on a Bank Holiday, the event will take
place on Monday 18th May at 2.30pm.
NPIA and MIssing People are participating in the International Missing Children's Day
(Bank Holiday Monday - 25th May) in co-ordination with the Australian Federal Police,
the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC Washington - USA)
and other partners of the Global Missing Children's Network. Missing Children Europe
and its associated NGOs are also involved.
Forever Searching are organising a March for the Missing in
Leicester on Sunday 24th May, all are welcome to attend please
go to their website www.foreversearching.com for further
details.
Missing People and AdMedia team up to help Keep the Search
Alive for the missing....
www.missingpeople.org.uk/keepthesearchalive/
JANUARY 14, 2009
ANOTHER YEAR BEGINS, AND WE ARE NOT GIVING UP EVEN
IF THE POLICE APPEAR TO BE!
WE ARE APPEALING FOR ANYONE TO CONTACT US WITH
WHAT THEY MAY KNOW OR HAVE HEARD ABOUT WHAT
HAPPENED TO DAMIEN. AT THIS POINT THE POLICE JUST
ABOUT WASHED THEIR HANDS OF DAMIEN...THEY DON'T
WANT TO KEEP FOLLOWING LEADS AND WE SUSPECT THAT
THERE MAY BE LEADS THEY WERE GIVEN IN THE EARLY
DAYS THAT THEY HAVE NOT FOLLOWED UP ON, SO WE
NEED TO FIND OUR OWN. WE ARE ON OUR OWN AND WE
NEED YOUR HELP TO BRING SOME CLOSURE.
WHAT HAPPENED TO DAMIEN NETTLES
November 2nd, 2008
Damien was featured today in a live webcast on Sunday
November 2nd, 2008 by the LA, California based band
Clementine. This was an amazing webcast.
Music was played by the band and UK artist Darius Lux. There
were several people from the UK featured who either went
missing in the UK or were UK citizens who went missing abroad.
There was an opportunity during the webcast for people to
send emails that were read live on the webcast.
We, the families who were featured, are very grateful for our
missing family members to be included.
This is an amazing new and unique way to get the message
across about missing people by using popular music as a
venue to draw attention to the whole missing people issue.
A BIG thanks to the UK group Forever Searching
www.foreversearching.com for making this possible! You are
really are an awesome dedicated group who truly have the
interests of each family at heart!
Please go to www.411gina.org for more information about the
band and what they do for the missing.
Or www.foreversearching.com
I will be going to the band's Dallas performance which will be
held at Poor David's Pub on Lamar in Dallas on November 7th,
2008. I hope any of the Dallas crew will join us there.
2nd annual March for the Missing
March for the Missing will again be held in London on March 18, 2009.
We are working on getting as many families and friends of the
missing to join us in this very important event to highlight the
phenomenon of people going missing every year and the families
left behind to cope. We again are entreating our MP's to bring this to
the attention of ministers in Westminster to help fund some support
group that can give practicle help and advice to family when a loved
one goes missing.
May 15th 2008
Damien will be featured on the Missing Live program on Friday May
16th at 9.15 a.m. The program can also be accessed online
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00b09tz.shtml
I have pasted the link, unfortunately, it is only available for UK
viewers only. As I am in the States, I cannot watch it, but have folk
out there who will tape it for me and send it. Wish I could be there
myself.
If anyone has any information please call the Hampshire
Constabulary 0845 045 45 45 or please contact the Missing People
Charity 0500 700 700.
We miss Damien every day, please can someone tell us what
happened to him? We really need to know even if it is the worst case
scenario, we cannot rest until we find out.
My nephew, Sam, is doing a presentation to his school today about
the phenomenon of Missing People and they will do a fund raiser for
the Charity. May 25th is International Missing Children's Day. We are
all very proud of Sam for having the courage to stand before his
school and tell of our struggle as a family and how it affects those
who are left behind. It affects everyone, although Sam was only a
baby when Damien went missing, he has an awareness that other
children don't. He has grown up with the feeling of loss in the family
and witnessed our struggles. The next generation will carry on the
search. My younger nephew, Callum who is only 8 tells me that
when he grows up, he is going to find Damien.
One thing we must remember and that is not all people who go
missing are 'children'. Many adults, young and old disappear, leaving
behind valued items and taking nothing with them, out of character,
and we must focus on all missing people.
www.missingpeople.org.uk/missingpeopleTV/media-coverage/clip.asp?dsid=1300
It has been a tough year. Nicki Durbin (Luke Durbin's mother) and I
got our heads together with the help of Jill Blonsky, and we
organized the March for the Missing which took place in London on
March 12, 2008. I returned to the UK to take part in the March and
represent Damien, with my family and friends who came to support
us. The families missing people and friends gathered at the Raoul
Wallenberg Statue, in Great Cumberland Square. We marched to
Trafalgar Square, where we held a ceremony, reading out the names
of some missing people. It was a great day. We had a full police
escort and we certainly turned heads in the city of London as we
made our message felt.
It has been exhausting, but well worth all the effort and hopefully we
have started the ball rolling for getting some help and guidelines in
place to help the families left behind and to help with future families
who may suffer through the agony of having a loved one go missing.
We suffered some anguish when recently Damien's name had been
found to be used by someone who steals the identity of missing
persons, the police investigated this and found that this person has
done this before. It caused us a lot of unnecessary distress. I hope
they lock him up and throw away the key! And people like him that
prey on the sensitivity and vulnerability of the family that is already
going through hell.
JANUARY 2008
Yet another year rolls around.
Please see the link below, we are trying to get a reward offered for Damien and I would ask anyone who has
the power to help with this to please contact us:
www.iwcp.co.uk/News/REWARD_SOUGHT_IN_DAMIEN_MYSTERY.aspx
December 2007
Nicki Durbin and I are trying to get families of the missing together to make our voices heard by the
government. We are in need of long term support as the families left behind when a loved one goes
missing. No matter what the reasons are that someone goes missing, it leaves the family torn apart.
Please read our aims set out in a letter on this website
November 2007
11th Anniversary
Damien Nettles, Missing from Isle of Wight 1996
Friday November 2, 2007 will mark the 11th anniversary of my son, Damien Richard Nettles going missing.
He went out with friends and visited East Cowes, before returning across the River Medina to Cowes on the
western side of the Island. He was seen around town with his friend Chris until he and Chris decided to
start to walk home. At around 10.30 p.m. he and Chris parted company at the corner of Northwood Park. It
was later learned that Damien returned to the High St. area. He was reportedly asking acquaintances
whether they had seen his sister Sarah. He seemed to think she may be around and she had mentioned
that she might come home from Portsmouth University. She did not, but he had it in his head she might be
somewhere. He was seen by several people. He was caught on a security video inside Yorkie’s Chip Shop
on Cowes High St. at approximately 11.35 to 11.40 p.m. He was surrounded by several men, only two have
ever been identified. The Hampshire Constabulary have pictures of the chip shop video on their website in
Damien’s casebook. Please click the following link Hampshire Constabulary: Casebook - Damien Nettles I
would beg everyone to please take time to scrutinize these pictures. Please also visit Missing People. And
UK Missing Children's Website
Damien was then seen on the CCTV camera’s on the High St. We left the chip shop around 11.40 p.m. and
was seen walking toward the Co-op, which is the bus stop. Several people reported seeing and speaking to
him there. He apparently was thought to be acting in an odd manner, which may be attributed to have been
drinking cider earlier in the evening. He left the bus stop and was again seen on the CCTV film walking back
along the High St., past the entrance to the pontoon and the last sighting was around 12.02 a.m. under a
camera by the across from the Indian Restaurant and right before Sun Hill. He was not seen anywhere on
any camera along the High St. after that point. We watched the camera footage until around the 12.30 a.m.
mark, but he was never picked up on the other CCTV camera’s. So after approaching the junction of Sun
Hill, he was never seen again.
This is still an active case and I would like to appeal to the public to cast your minds back to that time and if
you heard of any rumor or think you might know something, please just let us know. We want to know what
happened to Damien and we cannot rest until we have some kind of closure. Call the anonymous number at
the Missing People 0500 700 700 or the Hampshire Constabulary 0845 045 45 45. Or email us at
valnett@yahoo.com or themissing@hotmail.co.uk.
October 2007
10/20 It is hard to believe that it is nearly 11 years since we have seen or heard from Damien. We love him
and miss him so much. We just need closure. The police and the Missing Peoples Charity are going to do
some kind of press release. We are hopeful that someone will have information to pass to the police that
might give us some kind of hope that we will know the truth about what happened to Damien. I wish that
just for one moment that I could give him a hug and tell him how much we all love and miss him. If anyone
knows anything, please tell us. Val.
The police have completed their review. We were visited by an officer from Hants Constab in July who
appraised us of their findings. We are still hoping for a miracle. If anyone out there knows something,
please give us the information that we need to bring closure. I am considering returning around the
anniversary of Damien going missing. We miss Damien every day. Will someone help us? Tell us what
happened?
May 2007
Damien has been missing now for nearly eleven years. He was 16 when he went missing for no apparent
reason. Damien's 27 birthday is on June 21, 2007. It is midsummers day, the longest day of the year.
We continue to look for answers to his disappearance. We have continued to keep contact with the police
and recently, I made a complaint to the Police Complaints Commission. This resulted in what has been
almost a year of review of the case one officer. It was decided that rather than use a team of officers, it
would be better, in case one piece of evidence might be overlooked that connected to another. This
recently came to a conclusion and it does appear, that on the whole, most lines of enquiry were bottomed
out, there are area's that they can revisit. I am waiting for further contact on a way forward.
Meanwhile, markers in his life that we missed his company. His brother James married last year and now
has a beautiful baby boy who is four months old, named Robert Damien.
There is not a day goes by when we don't think about him.
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