Missing D-Day veteran pulls off escape to Normandy
A pensioner who went missing from a nursing home in East Sussex has been found safe and well – commemorating the D-Day landings in Normandy.
Police said staff at the Hove nursing home called them yesterday evening when the WWII veteran did not return after going for a walk. It was not until a younger veteran called to say he met the pensioner on a coach to France and that he was safe at a hotel in Ouistreham. It turned out the 89-year-old man had left the facility wearing a grey mack concealing a jacket underneath with his war medals attached. Sussex Police said they have spoken to him and “are satisfied that the pensioner is fine”, adding: “Once the pensioner is home we will go and have a chat with him to check he is ok.”Source: https://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-06-06/d-day-veteran-pulls-off-nursing-home-escape/