Bernard Cook is the first mature adult I have highlighted in my posts about missing 
people. The link was sent to me by the charity missing people, Bernard’s family are desperate for news of him.
He disappeared in November 2005 aged 54 after going to work at the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company in Seaforth, Merseyside. He is a well known and much respected figure on Merseyside It is a baffling case.
Bernard’s picture was added on lorries across the country and his story written about in The Times. It describes how he just drove away from the office and disappeared. He had been married 29 years and was devoted to his two children, Claire, 22, and Andrew, 20.
His wife Bernadette wonders whether he felt pressured about work, it had become increasingly stressful. He took no money or clothing with him when he vanished and his wife told the paper:
“We are a family who eat together; we walk together. We are not a TV-dinner family. Even if he came in late I would sit with him. He’s a proper family man and so this is all just unreal. It’s surreal.
“Please just come home, Bernie. Don’t worry about anything else, we just so desperately want you home. Nothing else matters. I don’t want him to feel embarrassed or guilty or think, ‘Oh God what have I put them through?’ because it doesn’t matter. What people think is of no significance to me.�
In memory of those who are still missing.
OK, Ellee, this daily roll call of the missing is seeping into my subconscious. The tragedy and broken hearts. I’ll be holding my loved ones a little tighter from now on.
Again, so heartbreaking for his family. Electro-kevin has said it all.
Somehow to me this seems to be the saddest one you have posted. Perhaps it is because I have just become a father and now have extra responsibilities that I wonder how this man must have been feeling.
So very sad.
Dear Elle,
Thank you so much for writing your article on my father. I stumbled across it when I was online. Anything to publisise my fathers disappearance is key in the hope that he will one day be found.
Kind Regards,
Andrew Cook
May 2009. Sadly Mr Cook’s body was found in a submerged vehicle in a dock in Bootle.Merseyside.