'We Were Accused of Murdering Our Own Son' | This Morning

Since 1992, Doris and Charles Clark have lived through every parent's worst nightmare - searching for their missing son, Steven, who vanished from a public bathroom aged 23. After almost three decades, the elderly couple were arrested on suspicion of their son’s murder last year and were later released without charge. Now, a new documentary led by ex-detective Mark Williams-Thomas follows the couple after their arrest and aims to find out what happened to Steven Clark. His parents Doris and Charles join us on the sofa alongside Mark.
Broadcast on 19/04/21
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[@cameronross956]

I can't understand why his Mam never asked someone to at least go in to the gents to check if he was in there. It's certainly a very strange case. In the documentary the parents don't come over well at times, but I suspect that was just the nerves of being filmed.

[@haqq1234]

She looks a bit daft

[@Suzyfromtheblock]

And of course mrs Clarke is in her eighties now, at the time of the disappearance she was aged 50

[@irishgirl1753]

Wouldn’t you ask someone to check the gents

[@user-mq4hr1ly4b]

People saying why didn’t she go in to check if he was there - if he was there someone would have found him. Otherwise he’d still be there now wouldn’t he. 🙄

[@margaritamencias2241]

Something is not right. Most friends would check to see what is taking so long. Imagine what a parent would do for a child regardless of the child's age. Is there proof he was even at the beach? If there is proof I'm confused by the mother's lack of urgency of why he was taking so long.

[@user-mq4hr1ly4b]

It’s not a child it’s a 23 year old grown man

[@margaritamencias2241]

@user-mq4hr1ly4b curious if you are out with friends or family and they go into the restroom at a restaurant, store, or park and they don't come back in an hour, that's normal? You would not check on them? My point was I would check on my friends imagine if it was my child or a relative regardless of age who did not return in a timely manner. The parent child dynamic is always there. If my adult friend was gone for an hour I would ask questions be concerned if my adult child was gone for the same amount of time I would go in the bathroom, start calling their name. Either his mother knew the son had a plan to leave or knows what happened to him.

[@user-mq4hr1ly4b]

@@margaritamencias2241 depends where they go, in a restaurant yes; outside like that honestly no, she was standing outside the whole time. I’d have assumed they would have come out. Also people were walking in and out all day, if he was still there someone would have seen him lying on the floor, so clearly he wasn’t.

[@Suzyfromtheblock]

Steven was a vulnerable person, his physical disability would have severely hampered him if someone had tried on that day to abduct him from the toilets, His mother should have got someone to check those toilets before she went back home, This is not about his parents, it’s about Steven, and a duty of care that was owed to him.

[@user-mq4hr1ly4b]

Conversely if he was lying on the floor in the toilets he would’ve been found eventually. He clearly wasn’t there.

[@Suzyfromtheblock]

@@user-mq4hr1ly4b well it seems that way, it is odd that no one from that day who was on the promenade has come forward to say that they had seen Steven or his mother,

[@Suzyfromtheblock]

They were both in the police force, they know the drill, If the police suspect you are involved in a crime, they are not going to give you a warning They have a duty of care for Steven, Something is not right here

[@Suzyfromtheblock]

Scolfield was ridiculous

[@gmacson]

This feels different. Something is afoot.

[@watsonspuzzle]

I can understand why police thought they did something, but I don't believe they did. I think the young man walked away that day. What he did after that, it's hard to say. I suspect he committed suicide that day, but I like to think he ran away to start a new and independent life.

[@suzannel8926]

Wouldn't he stand out with his disability? He walked unusual.

[@watsonspuzzle]

@@suzannel8926 Normally, I think he would, but the area was packed with people. I think it could have gone unnoticed in a crowd. If his parents didn't do anything to him, he had to have walked away.

[@Suzyfromtheblock]

@@watsonspuzzle in the docu, it is apparent that Steven relied heavily on his parents for support, which has been given since he was a baby, and when he had the accident with the lorry at aged 2/3, these must have been very difficult times for them all as a family. It appears that Steven was trying very hard to try and get established in employment. I feel that for him to leave the safe comforts of his home, without the support of the Clarkes would have been extremely difficult. Over the years he would have needed his NHS number to work, and be registered, I cannot see an outsider supporting Steven without money for all these years.

[@elizabethtobin6894]

@@SuzyfromtheblockIt seems Steven was a vulnerable person when he disappeared. God help both of them.