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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Harriette Boucher

‘I feel as though I’m singing to my son’: Inside the choir helping reunite missing people with their families

When Peter Boxell dreamed that he was singing a song to his son Lee, who had been missing for 25 years, he never imagined it would eventually take him to the final of Britain’s Got Talent. 

In 2013, the father casually mentioned the dream to someone from the charity Missing People and, by the following day, arrangements had been made for him to visit a recording studio and work with a producer ahead of a Christmas event at St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London.

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