The wife of missing man Peter Baglin says she has received distasteful messages from trolls speculating about her husband's disappearance. Michelle Baglin says she has had to read messages from trolls online saying things like her husband may be cheating or that 'he doesn't want to be found'.
Peter's disappearance has gripped the local community with friends, family and locals carrying out a number of searches desperate to find the grandad from Worsley. A number of Facebook groups have been set up for people to communicate and help in finding Peter.
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Michelle says that while she has received tonnes of messages of goodwill and support from people she has had to deal with some unsavoury comments from others. Speaking to the MEN she said: "Someone has commented, like people do, 'well he might have been having an affair or seeing somebody, you don't know that' and I put 'I actually do'.
"The police have actually searched his phone, his email, his Facebook, personal messages, everything! I said to them 'I can put hand on heart my husband is not having an affair with anybody'. They rang me back and said 'Michelle, he loves you to bits, there's no sign of another woman, or anything untoward, there's nothing like that at all, he loves you."
"Out of a lot of messages I've only had a few like 'obviously he doesn't want to be found, leaving him alone' and I just think, wait until it's your husband or daughter who's gone missing. It's not a nice place."
Heartbroken Michelle says while it is becoming harder and harder to visit the area where her husbands belongings were found she still finds solace in walking the path on her own.
"I go down there quite regularly on my own and I just sit and have a chat because it's the last place anything of him is left. I just talk to myself and say 'if you're listening where the bloody hell are you.
"'Your grandkids are missing you, everybody is missing you, your mum is distraught.' I prefer it just on my own because it's a nice place to sit, sometimes it can get morbid but I feel a lot of comfort down there as well."
Peter Baglin was last seen nearby, at the Texaco Garage on East Lancs Road, Mosley Common, at around 7.38pm on December 28. That evening he spoke to his wife at around 8.15pm, where he told her he was on a walk to 'clear his head'.
He said he was going down to walk along Bridgewater Canal. She was worried, but he assured her he would 'be home soon'. He hasn't been home since.
In the days that followed, after police deployed huge search teams to the local area, trawling through woodland and with divers in the canal, a number of his belongings were found close to the embankment on Vicars Hall Lane. His hat, phone, bank cards, tobacco, house key and headphones have been recovered and are with police, but there have been no confirmed sightings of him.
Peter was last seen wearing navy coloured joggers, walking shoe type trainers and a grey Mountain Equipment hoodie with a red zip and distinctive white lining and a hat. He is described as being 5ft 10ins in height, with grey hair, and a tattoo on the left side of his neck that says 'Michelle'. He is also wearing his wedding ring.
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