DJ Derek is missing

[Geri]

It doesn't make sense because on Friday they said CCTV showed him heading towards the BRI, but if you look at the CCTV, it shows him heading down from the Commercial Rooms to the no 5 bus stop.

Here's the article:

DJ Derek missing: How did the much-loved Bristolian disc jockey disappear without a trace?

 

[JTG]

It doesn't make sense because on Friday they said CCTV showed him heading towards the BRI, but if you look at the CCTV, it shows him heading down from the Commercial Rooms to the no 5 bus stop.

Here's the article:

DJ Derek missing: How did the much-loved Bristolian disc jockey disappear without a trace?

Sounds like chinese whispers to me.

That story mentions the junction of Sussex Place and Brook Road - there is no such junction, it's Ashley Road at that point

 

[Geri]

Useless plod.

 

[fizzerbird]

has there been any news?

 

[Geri]

Last seen in the Criterion. They think he might have caught a bus to Thornbury the following morning.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Possible sighting at London Waterloo station this week
Derek Serpell-Morris Resembling Missing Bristol DJ's Family at London Waterloo Station | MissOpen
DJ Derek sighting reported at London's Waterloo station

 

[editor]

Encouraging news.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

saw a much clearer version of that pic yesterday and it def aint him.....imo

 

[chainsawjob]

Just caught the end of this programme about the search for him on Radio 4 today

Jennifer's Search for DJ Derek, The Untold - BBC Radio 4

 

[skyscraper101]

Poor Derek. I hope he's found soon.

 

[aqua]

Poor Derek. I hope he's found soon.

This, I find this case so sad

 

[wiskey]

Just caught the end of this programme about the search for him on Radio 4 today

Jennifer's Search for DJ Derek, The Untold - BBC Radio 4

I listened to all of that when it was on, Jennifer has been in the local media loads.

I really thought that the guy in Waterloo was him, the picture was uncanny ... but apparently not.

I remember seeing him at ?Endorset when he kept trying to turn up the volume and kept getting told off

 

[Libertad]

Just caught the end of this programme about the search for him on Radio 4 today

Jennifer's Search for DJ Derek, The Untold - BBC Radio 4

That was bleak.

 

[butchersapron]

Speculation starts - right area...

 

[butchersapron]

Western daily press say police have confirmed - seems bit quick.

 

[Geri]

BBC have confirmed it as well.

 

[xenon]

Just saw that on Facebook. Grim.

 

[wiskey]

so sad, a bit of me hoped he was just in a Wetherspoons up Norf

 

[pesh]

RIP

 

[Libertad]

Oh shit.

 

[teuchter]

 

[JimW]

Lunchtime news says it's objects found with the body suggest it's him

 

[ringo]

Looks likely, what a shame. I'm glad his family will get closure though, it's been awful for them. He'll get the send off he rightly deserves now.

 

[ringo]

Cheers Derek, thanks for the tunes and the laughs x

 

[butchersapron]

Yes cheers derek, thanks for all those nights in the plough - fuck me - starting near 30 year ago now. He would only have been a young man then.

 

[xenon]

Seemed a bit soon to confirm it's him but on balance then.


Heard him a lot when I first came to Bristol and used to go to the Star and Garter.

A good night when I wandered down my local as was, in Bedminster, on my own a few years ago. Couldn't understand why it was unusually busy til someone pointed out DJ Derek was playing that night...

RIP Derek.

 

[Ground Elder]

RIP

This always reminds me of nights down the Star and Garter, before Derek got 'famous'

 

[stethoscope]

Crap news. RIP

 

[Idaho]

Sad news

 

[Chilli.s]

Sad news indeed... I too was wondering where I heard him play first, think it was at the Star and Garter about 20 years ago.