[4] Vishal Mehrotra was born in India on 27 September 1972, and emigrated to the United Kingdom with his family from Sri Lanka in 1978.
[6][7] His mother, Aruna Mehrotra, had separated from her husband and moved back to India to manage a jewellery business at the time of the disappearance.
She took him across the main road pedestrian crossing and then left him to walk the rest of the way while she took Mamta to buy the cough medicine.
[5] Initially it was thought that Vishal could have tried to travel to India, though his family doubted this, and this line of inquiry was investigated by Interpol.
[5] On 21 February 1982 two men, who were shooting pigeons, discovered a skull, seven rib bones and a section of vertebrae at Alder Copse, Durleigh Marsh Farm, Rogate, near Petersfield.
[9] The "Dirty Dozen" investigative team held a meeting with Sussex Police at the time but no concrete evidence was found to link the enquiries.
[11] The report also revealed that the Metropolitan Police's paedophile unit had concluded there were "strong similarities" between Vishal’s case and the gang's known killings.
[12] A few months after his son's disappearance, Vishambar Mehrotra claimed to have been contacted by an unidentified man thought to be in his twenties.
[6] This man suggested that Vishal's abduction had been connected to a group of influential paedophiles associated with Elm Guest House.
Beech was later determined to have used his work computer to access newspaper articles speculating on connections between Vishal's murder and the alleged paedophile ring.
"[16] In 2020, in an interview with the BBC, Vishambar Mehrotra stated: "The mere fact that it has got Vishal's name on it is amazing and astounding that they [the police] don't think it is important enough.
"[17]A three-year investigation by BBC journalist Colin Campbell suggested a possible connection between Vishal's death and a paedophile ring with links to Sussex and West London.
Some members of the group were jailed in 1998 for sexual offences against children at Muntham House School, near Horsham, West Sussex, in the 1970s and 1980s.