Computer-aged photo released of teen missing since 1988 who may have been murdered in notorious youth club

A NEW computer-aged photo has today been released of a teen who vanished 30 years ago – as it was claimed he may have been murdered at an infamous youth club run by a paedophile.

The image is featured in a TV documentary to be shown tonight that examines whether Lee Boxell, who disappeared when he was a teenager, is still missing or if he was murdered.

In the documentary, a new witness claims that soon after Boxell disappeared she saw a heavily blood-stained mattress propped against a wall.

The woman, now in her 40s, tells how she saw the mattress outside The Shed, an unofficial youth club in the grounds of a church.

St Dunstan’s church is less than a mile from the spot in Cheam, Surrey, where Lee – then 15 – was last seen on the afternoon of September 10, 1988.

The new witness, known only as Sally, tells C5’s Missing or Murdered? Programme how two days after the youngster vanished she was told ‘Lee was not going to be seen again’.

And she revealed how a fortnight after Lee’s disappearance she wretched when she spotted the blood-covered mattress abandoned near The Shed.

She says: “I could see a mattress standing upright and sagging in the middle with what to me was certainly a very large dark stain. I believed it to be blood.

The smell was quite overwhelming, so much so that I was sick and wretching.”

The woman chose to stay anonymous and programme makers called her ‘Sally’.

In the documentary ‘Sally’ claims to have been 13 when she began attending the Shed, where teenagers were allowed to smoke and drink by a convicted paedophile who ran the club.

She tells the programme: “Two days after Lee disappeared I went to The Shed with a friend.

“We were invited into a private place and told quite blatantly that Lee was not going to be seen again, that Lee was dead and that he was buried most likely in grassland not far from The Shed.”

Sally adds: “I believe many girls were abused here over the years. Only one actually told me about their abuse.

“That was someone who believed that by having penetrative sex with the paedophile, he would be able to abort a pregnancy that they thought they might have. They didn’t know for sure that they were pregnant.”

‘Sally’ claims the paedophile who ran the club once fondled her chest.

She says: “He just laughed it off and he would just give you a hug and rub your arms.

“I do know of a boy who told me he had been abused here. I can’t say it was by the paedophile himself because I don’t know but he did tell me it happened here.”

After Lee’s disappearance rumours circulated that he was still alive, had married and was working for as a civil servant but none proved to be true.

Programme makers commissioned University of Bradford’s Professor Hassan Ugail to produce a computer-aged photo of what Lee would look like today, age 46.

Police spent more than £1million digging up St Dunstan’s graveyard in 2013 in an unsuccessful hunt for Lee.

But cops were not allowed to dig up existing graves and it is feared his body may have been disposed in a newly-dug grave and a coffin placed on top.

* Missing or Murdered? The Disappearance of Lee Boxell airs tonight at 10pm on Channel 5.