(Historic) Paul Vella
Paul was born October 31, 1968, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, lived in Stevenage, and was living in Miton Keynes, England, UK, at the time of his death. Most recently, he said he was 42 years old on one of his social media pages. Paul was a member of St. Michael’s RC Boys School, Steven College of Further Education (in Computer Science), and The John Henry Newman School – and noted he graduated from all in 1985. He worked from 1990 to 1997 as a systems manager at Rosengrens and a system engineer from 1997 to 1999 at the EDS Corporation.
an amateur cryptozoologist based in Northamptonshire, England. He was a founding member and served on the Board of Directors of The Alliance of Independent Bigfoot Researchers (but resigned before his death), was an active regional representative for the Centre for Fortean Zoology, and was a member of the Zoological Society of London.
Vella was a Forensic Examiner and Expert Witness by profession who specialized in the forensic recovery, examination and analysis of computer and mobile phone data, including the analysis of digital imagery, and had been involved in a number of high-profile cases, including the attempted impeachment of (now retired) Circuit Court Judge Brian Curtin in 2006 by the Oireachtas Éireann (House of Parliament) in the Irish Republic, and the case of the ’7/7′ terrorist attacks in London.
Vella at one time wrote a regular column on Bigfoot in the magazine Animals & Men and was one of the few people in Britain who took Bigfoot research seriously. He, as noted, regularly attended conferences in the United Kingdom, presenting “Bigfoot/Sasquatch: Evidence’”- a two hour presentation of the best evidence for the existence of Bigfoot. He was an administrator at Bigfoot Forums, posting as “paul1968uk,” and thus his discussions will live on forever on the Internet.
Paul passed away on July 15th, 2017 from health issues.
