Right: Age-progressed to 37 years
Right: Age-progressed to 37 years
Name: Thomas Spence
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: November 27, 1974
Location Last Seen: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Date of Birth: July 21, 1963
Age: 11 years old
Race: Unknown
Gender: Male
Height: 5'0"
Weight: 100 lbs
Hair Color: Dark brown
Eye Color: Left eye green, right eye blue.
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Small scar on the side of his face near his left ear. He had a speech impediment.
Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown
Clothing: Dark blue anorak, maroon trousers, navy pullover and black shoes.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Spence was last seen on the 27 November 1974 waiting for a school bus on the Falls Road close to Rockdale Street in Belfast. He disappeared together with John Rodgers .
The two boys failed to catch the bus to Saint Aloysius School in Belfast. The last sighting of Rodgers was at 09.00 when he left his home on Rodney Drive to catch the bus to school.
Spence, from nearby Rockdale Street, was last seen by a neighbor at the bus stop on the Falls Road at 09.15. She was concerned that he should have been at school by that time and called at the family home to tell his mother, who then walked to the bus stop but found her son had gone.
Neither boy arrived at school and both were reported missing the following day.
Agency Name: Detective Sergeant, Grosvenor Road, RUC Station
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: N/A
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: N/A
Belfast Telegraph (Belfast, Ireland) Nov. 3, 2010
Added: Prior to 2011; Last Updated: 03/29/2024 - By: kc
Questions or comments? Please contact appropriate member of the Area Team
** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
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