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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ellie Harrison

‘Blind panic crashes in on you’: Father of Lucie Blackman, who went missing in Japan, speaks out in Netflix film

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“I was sitting in the garden at home, and I got a telephone call to say that my daughter, Lucie, had gone missing.” These are the words of Tim Blackman, the father of Lucie Blackman, the 21-year-old British woman who vanished while living in Tokyo in 2000.

“She was out working in Japan,” Tim says, in Netflix’s new documentary Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case. “I was immediately thinking, ‘Well, there must be some rational explanation.’”

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