Ian Clenahan
speaker
112 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Ian Clenahan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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To see whether there's any reports of any fishermen being lost at sea.
Everything was coming to a dead end, really.
It's like looking for a needle in a haystack, isn't it? You're trying to find one name.
It's unusual if we don't identify them. There's not many that go unidentified. We were fairly close to just saying, well, we can't. So let's just like make arrangements for the body to be cremated or buried or whatever they were going to do with it as an unknown person.
I was making a cup of tea, and I can always remember it, and the kettle was there next to a desk. My phone rings, and you've got one of those phones where you can star-star-zero to pick up a phone that's ringing, and it was him. And he started to talk to me.
I mean, you know, he was a mate. He was a really good friend of his.
So I grabbed a piece of paper that was nearby and I couldn't even find a pen. So I grabbed a piece of paper and a pencil and I started writing what he told me.
I can always remember Exhibit IDC7 was that piece of paper.
He said to me that Ron had left England to travel to France to start up a TV repair business in France.
He was a successful American businessman who had a lot of money and his mate Ron didn't have much at all. I mean, we weren't talking about a lot of money. I've got two and a half thousand pound in my head, which is a nice sum of money, I suppose. But it's not a world shattering, life changing sum of money.
But it's enough to get him over to France, maybe find some accommodation so that he can then find some work to support himself.
And sure enough... He had an army record, and we were able to go to his army record and compare the dental charts.
And Brian confirmed the tattoo. And it was actually because we all wondered what the tattoo was. It wasn't clear what it was.
We'd done all we could have done. I don't think we thought we would ever find out what happened.
to him unless we got more information to say well look you know I've heard that he was setting out on this boat on this day to travel to France then maybe we could have done some more digging but I think it was accepting that we were never going to find out the true circumstances of what had happened at that point okay he'd come off a boat that was obvious he drowned that was reality how are we ever going to find out what happened
So one late shift, I was sat in the office and thought, you know what, I'll give him a ring.
I couldn't find the piece of paper with his phone number on anywhere in the office. So I thought, oh, right, okay. So I thought, right, I'm going to phone up an officer in Essex to see whether he will go round because I'd lost his phone number, basically.
And I said, look, do us a favor. Would you pop round to this address, which I'd got from him in my previous conversation?
And that's where it all started to unravel.
I was in the office and painting the police station and I got the call from Peter saying, oh, you're not going to believe this. And then he told me what he'd discovered.
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