He went for birthday drinks in the Gay Village, days later he disappeared without a trace

"It is just bizarre. He has gone missing without a trace"15:31, 02 Aug 2026April 30, 2010, was a day like many others. Ron Ellis spent part of the afternoon with a friend in the bars of Manchester's Gay Village.‌They had been belatedly celebrating his 32nd birthday which had been four days earlier. There were familiar faces all along Canal Street and the streets of the city centre.‌Originally from Bolton, Ron was well-known and popular in the LGBTQ+ community, and performed and appeared as a drag queen, under the name Fanny Allcock in pubs and clubs in the Village and in Blackpool.‌Click here to get the biggest stories straight to your inbox in our Daily NewsletterLater that day, between 2pm and 3pm, he caught a train from Piccadilly Station to Northwich and would have arrived about an hou