

It's a Sunday evening when Cheshire Police get a call from Mark Moran of the Veterans Association, a charity. The charity's founder, former soldier Mark Smith, has not been seen for almost 24 hours, following an argument with his wife Denise.

Eighty-three-year-old John only turned his back for a moment while buying some parsley, but that was long enough for his wife Sheila, who has dementia, to disappear from his sight and into the busy streets of Gloucester town centre at lunchtime.