A man feared by police to have been murdered has been found living in woods, almost five years after he disappeared amid fears he was being exploited. The last confirmed sighting of Ricardas Puisys, now 40, was on 26 September 2015 at his workplace, 20 miles from where he lived in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. He unexpectedly failed to return to work two days later and in November of that year police launched a murder investigation. The following month a man was arrested on suspicion of his murder before being released without charge. However, hopes that he might be alive were raised when a Facebook account was set up in his name and photographs were posted of a man police believed to be Puisys. In November last year officers relaunched an appeal to find him and in December they said they had received several reports of sightings of him. On Monday, police said that Puisys had been found in hiding on 1 July in Wisbech. Officers believe that he fled because of fears for his safety. In August 2015, shortly before he disappeared, a local resident raised concerns that Puisys was being exploited and may have been forced to move addresses within Wisbech against his will. DCI Rob Hall from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire major crime unit said: “For almost five years Ricardas’s disappearance has been a complete mystery. That was until we received information at the end of June, which led us to finding him.”Puisys was working at Nightlayer Leek Company in Chatteris through an agency at the time of his disappearance.

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