[1] Ratcliffe was white, medium build, 5ft 7ins tall with brown eyes and short ginger hair.
[1] On 31 August 2008, at 4:45pm Ratcliffe was dropped off by his aunt, Kimberley Pierce, outside a hostel on Tib Street in the Northern Quarter, Manchester city centre.
Ratcliffe was due to visit the Men's Direct Hostel in Longsight, a homeless shelter, but he never arrived.
[3] In 2010 a British Transport Police PCSO stopped a young man matching Ratcliffe's appearance on Waterloo who told the officer that he was from Manchester.
[4] In April 2017, Ashton Canal was drained as part of the search for Ratcliffe, though no body was discovered.