Eleanor Neale

For legal reasons, in this case, this boy is known as Boy B. And so for the rest of this video, we're gonna be calling him Boy B or B. He was also 13 years old at the time of this case, which is actually a year younger than Anna.

But anyway, police arrived at his house and they explained to his parents why they were there.

That a 14 year old girl had gone missing and their son was the last person to have seen her.

So he was a very big part of this investigation now.

So police sat him down in his own living room and they asked him a bunch of questions about Anna, about what he'd been doing earlier that day and he just said he didn't know anything.

He literally said he had no idea where she was.

He said that he'd gone to the park with Anna that evening for less than an hour.

They weren't even there for a full hour and he decided to leave at about 5.40pm.

He said that he had homework to do at home.

So he ran home and did his homework.

And he actually left Anna in the park.

He said that she didn't set off home.

Like, she was still sat on the park bench as he left.

So after that, he said he had absolutely no idea what Anna did or where she went, if she met up with anyone else.

And that was all Boy B could really tell the police about that night.

And with that, they really didn't have much to go off in this investigation.

They had no idea how or where they were going to find Anna Creasle.

And the next morning, so it had almost been 24 hours since Anna had last been seen, but she still hadn't contacted anyone.

She hadn't turned up home, she hadn't returned any texts or calls or anything.

So police put together a search team who all went out manually looking for Anna alongside a lot of her friends and family as well.