Age: 16
Sex: male
Date: 2 Mar 1986
Place: Sissinghurst Road, Addiscombe
Kevin Hicks went missing from his home in Sissinghurst Road, Addiscombe after going out to buy some chocolate and a box of eggs on 2 March 1986.
He went out about 8.30pm but he was later seen around 10pm in Shirley Road, walking in the general direction of his home.
He had needed the ingredients for his O-level home economics exam the following day. The shop had been a late night Sperrings community shop, a couple of minutes' walk away, in Lower Addiscombe Road. He was noted as having taken less than £1 with him and to have not even taken the house keys.
He was described as a quiet boy that rarely went out. It was noted that he had just spent his savings on new stereo equipment and that it was highly unlikely that he would have planned to have run away.
On the night he went out he had been wearing a red, white and blue bomber jacket, blue jeans and red and white Hi-Tec trainers.
On 25 October 1996 someone anonymously called the Croydon Advertiser and said they knew where Kevin Hicks's body was.
In 2016 the police said they were treating his case as murder.
The police said:
It was noted that both of his parents have since died, although his sister said that she had not given up searching for him.
