The Disappearance of Max Canley

Background
Max Canley was a 13 year old boy from Hinckley, Leicestershire. He lived with his parents in an exclusive area of the town and his father was the MP for Leicestershire South, he was an only child.

Disappearance
On the 24th of April 2023, Max Canley had told his parents that he was going to head to school early so he could go to the Morning Club. His parents reluctantly agreed, Max took his parents credit cards and £45 in cash from their wallets / handbags.

9:12am:

Max is seen on CCTV in Hinckley Town Centre taking out £50 in cash from a cash machine at Sainsbury's.

9:14am:

Max is seen on CCTV, purchasing a One-Way Train ticket to Edinburgh Waverly at Hinckley Railway Station from a ticket machine for £93 using a card.

9:26am:

Max is seen on CCTV and by 1 witness, boarding and riding the 09:26 train to Coventry, purchasing a can of soft drink, and a bottle of water (that he did not drink).

10:12am:

Max is seen on CCTV and by 3 witnesses, boarding and riding the 10:12 train to Edinburgh Waverly.

10:56am:

Max is seen by 2 witnesses, asking a train crew member to buy a ticket to Seascale, he later purchased the ticket for £56, he paid by cash.

11:22am:

Max's School call Max's Parents to tell them that their son had not arrived at school.

11:54am:

Max is seen leaving the train at Lancaster Station on CCTV.

12:12pm:

Max is seen on CCTV boarding a train heading to Whitehaven.

1:23pm:

Max is seen on CCTV texting on his phone.

1:54pm:

Max is seen on CCTV exiting the train at Seascale Station.

1:58pm:

Max is seen on CCTV leaving Sella Bank Road, holding a small bag and the water bottle.

2:11pm:

Max is seen on CCTV inside a Co-Op Supermarket putting dry ice inside of the water bottle and putting it into a bin on Gosforth Street.

2:12pm:

The Home-made Dry Ice bomb that Max had made explodes, injuring a 86 year old woman who had just left the Supermarket, she was taken to hospital.

2:14pm:

Max is seen on CCTV walking through Seascale Station, crossing over the footbridge and heading onto the beach.

2:17pm:

Police Cordon off the Supermarket and a small section of the street to investigate the explosion.

2:20pm:

Max's Parents call the Police to report their son as missing.

2:24pm:

Max is seen by 2 witnesses on the Cumbrian Coast, on a beach opposite Seascale Golf Links.

2:56pm:

Max's Phone is found by a passer-by on the beach, with two photos of Sellafield Nuclear Power Plant, that had been taken 5 minutes before from the beach.

2:59pm:

Max is seen by Sellafield CCTV pushing a Dinghy into the Irish Sea, and using a paddle to travel.

3:01pm:

Max leaves the view of CCTV, around 1.4km out to sea. This is the last time Max Canley was ever seen.

10:32pm:

Max's Dinghy is found in the sea, near Groudle Beach, on the Isle of Man.

Theories
It is still unknown why Max left home, he lived a relatively happy life, his parents were Upper-Middle Class, and lived in a large house. He had alot of School friends and was known as being very popular in his class.

It is thought that the photos of Sellafield Nuclear Power Plant that Max had took on his mobile phone could have been a distraction for Police, and that he believed that if they found his phone they would believe he was inside the plant.

A theory on why Max detonated a dry ice bomb could be that he was forced to by whoever supplied the Dinghy to him, as the Dinghy required a key to unlock a padlock on its chain. The elderly woman who was injured in the attack was found to be the grandmother of a member of a large Cumbria Organised Crime Group and is theorised that a person who had been affected by their actions could have co-ordinated the attack on the pensioner. This theory is supported by the fact that Max had bought a ticket to Seascale, instead of Sellafield, which is closer to the Dinghy's Location, but is only able to be exited by plant workers, meaning he may have had knowledge of this. However, this still does not explain why he originally had purchased a ticket to Edinburgh, instead of a ticket straight to Seascale.