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The gate flew open and their dog ran out. Sandy ran out trying to catch him. Work ground to a halt on the new building estate nearby to search for Sandy but nobody has seen him since.
The most believed scenario is that there was a man delivering leaflets around the time of Sandy"s disappearance and that he could have opened the gate and taken Sandy.
Another theory is that he ran down to the river five minutes away and followed the dog in, and subsequently drowned. The case was featured in an episode of the television series Missing Children: Lorraine Kelly Investigates in 2009 but nobody phoned in with information.
A deoxyribonucleic acid test was carried out in November 2013 on someone who was born around the same time as Sandy and who lived 20 miles away, but he turned out not to be the missing toddler. In September 2014, the Broomlands Primary School, which was constructed around the time of Sandy"s disappearance, was demolished.
The police and council refused to excavate the land to search for Sandy.
In February 2015, a surprise new witness emerged who had made contact via the social networking website Facebook, claiming to have been abducted and tortured by a teenage girl at around the same time that Sandy disappeared.
