Paul Carter

The Missing

Darrell Brown

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we bring you the odd case of Paul Carter, who disappeared during an overnight ferry crossing from Portsmouth to Brittany in April 2007.

It wasn’t Paul’s first time making the trip to the port of Saint-Malo. He’d made the journey several times before for work reasons and was travelling with three colleagues on the night in question. He was last seen at around midnight but by the time the ferry docked the following morning, he had vanished without a trace.

This episode hears from Paul’s mother Theresa. She explains how Paul’s disappearance created a bureaucratic nightmare, where the British police, the French authorities and the ferry operators all refused to take responsibility for his recovery, each pointing the finger at one another. Despite the lack of official support, Theresa has refused to give up hope and seventeen years later, she’s as determined as ever to solve the mystery of what happened to Paul.

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0:30.0	a word of warning before we begin this episode of theing features references to drugs as well as drug addiction.
0:41.2	If you or anyone you know is currently battling drug addiction, you can find some helpful resources in our show notes. Whenever someone goes missing, there's a script that usually follows.
1:03.0	A series of events that tend to unfold in a particular predictable order, no matter where in the world you might be.
1:11.6	Authorities are contacted, family and friends are spoken to,
1:16.6	steps are retraced, posters are distributed,
1:21.6	and in higher profile cases at least, the media shines a light on proceedings.
1:28.3	But what happens when someone goes missing and it's unclear who is responsible for their recovery?
1:36.3	When no one wants to step up and take on the difficult task of leading a missing person investigation, what do you do when no one is accountable?
1:48.3	That is the nightmare scenario that Theresa Carter was faced with when her son, Paul, went missing
1:56.2	from a ferry which was travelling from Portsmouth to France in April 2007.
2:02.6	Between the UK police, the French authorities and the ferry operators,
2:08.6	she couldn't find anyone willing to take charge of her son's case.
2:14.6	More than 17 years later, Teresa is still looking for answers.
2:25.3	I'm Pandora Sykes and you're listening to The Missing, a What's the Story, original podcast series
2:31.6	brought to you with the help of the charities missing people and locate
2:35.7	international. They believe that all of the cases in this series could still be solved. This is The
2:44.8	Missing, Paul Carter. From the moment she brought her son back to their home in Erdington, Birmingham, Paul's mother
3:00.0	Teresa, knew that life wouldn't be easy for her child.
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