Heartbroken wife of great-grandad who ‘vanished’ on canal walk makes plea 

The wife of a great-grandad who went missing after going out for a walk over a month ago has issued a desperate plea to bring him home.

Peter Baglin, 55, left his home in Boothstown on December 28th after telling his wife of 30 years Michelle that he was just going out for a walk and would be ‘home soon’. That would be the last day Mr Baglin was last seen on CCTV at a garage in Mosley Common near Worsley, Greater Manchester.

In the days that followed, after police deployed huge search teams to the local area, trawling through woodland, using drones, and dive teams in the canal, not a trace of Mr Baglin has been found, Greater Manchester Police say.

His phone, hat and headphones along with tobacco, his bank cards and house keys, were found the following day along a towpath by the Bridgewater Canal, on Vicars Hall Lane. Mrs Baglin has again spoken of her heartache over Peter’s sudden disappearance and in a desperate plea for her husband to come home, she said: “I need you, I just want you home.”

Mrs Baglin has described her husband’s disappearance as a ‘living nightmare’ and that it’s like he’s just ‘vanished’, saying: “”He’s vanished. Literally you’d never think of it in this day on Earth where we’ve got such technical things, that a person could disappear.”

She said he had gone out for a walk and was later seen buying whisky in the garage’s CCTV footage, and that a short time later they chatted on the phone. She said that he had promised to be home shortly and told her: “I love you, you’re my world.”

However, Mrs Baglin later became worried after further phone calls to him went unanswered. She then decided to go out looking for him before reporting him missing. Mrs Baglin said she fears Peter, a grandfather of four and great-grandfather of one, may have been listening to music along the canal embankment and fallen.

Mr Baglin often went out for a walk and this was not unusual for him to do as his wife said: “He does go for walks quite regularly.

“He’ll put his headphones on and he can walk for a good few hours. It wasn’t unusual for him to do that. What was unusual is that he didn’t come home. I’m praying that he’s somewhere safe.”

Police said Mr Baglin also has ties to the Devonshire area and joined his wife in appealing for anyone with information to contact them.