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Three days before Christmas and there’s another desperate plea from the family of missing student Jack O’Sullivan. Jack was last seen, and then only on CCTV, in the early hours of 2nd March 2024 after he left a house party. Here’s the new message in full:
Please help us find our son Jack
We have tried everthing possible to find him We are constantly contacted by scammers and mediums that keep telling us that they know what has happened and where Jack is.
The bottom line is “Someone knows”
what has happened to Jack.
We ask please just come forward with information that could help us.@
We are desperate and we are in the hands of the public for support.
Stop for a minute and think- this is a family in the worst pain imaginable. Please do anything that you can to help.
Any information you have is greatly appreciated.
Thank you
findjack23@gmail.com
I am not sure whether sharing the message on this little read blog will make any difference, but I suppose if we all do our bit, someone somewhere will have a lightbulb moment which will give a clue as to what happened. That is the hope, I believe, that we all share.
I am appalled, but not in the least surprised, that the family have been “constantly contacted by scammers and mediums” who claim to know what happened to Jack and where he is. This always seems to happen in missing person cases and it is worth pointing out once and for all that scammers and mediums are usually the very same people. Put simply, the world of the so called paranormal does not exist and those who pretend it does are scamming us all. In the case of Jack O’Sullivan, there actions are unbelievably crass and cruel. But let’s go back to the message itself.
My heart aches for Jack’s family and friends. Barring a miracle – and I’m afraid I don’t believe in miracles – this will be the first Christmas without their son and that empty chair at the dinner table … well, it’s too hard to contemplate. So, what can we all do?
We can pray, I suppose, but to be honest in the unlikely event there is a God, He doesn’t appear to have been listening to people’s prayers since Jack disappeared. We can join the endless searches that have taken place in and around the area Jack is believed to have disappeared in, in the needle-in-a-haystack hope that some clue will turn up. We can wish the family our love. We can share their story on social media (and if you want to be really helpful, then remove the privacy settings on your accounts so everyone beyond your ‘friends’ can get the message). In truth, all we can offer is hope.
While I do not do God, Christmas can be a roller coaster of emotion for me, as it can be for anyone else. We will get together with the family members who live near us and we will remember those with whom we can only speak via the internet and those from whom, for whatever reason, have become estranged. Above all, we will raise a glass to absent friends and family, specifically those who have died. It must be so hard to raise a glass to an absent friend or family member who has been missing for nearly a year. For ‘so hard’, insert impossible.
I hope Jack O’Sullivan’s family get some kind of answer in the New Year, any kind of answer that might, at the very least, bring closure. For them, I fear, their current life is no kind of life at all.
