She Disappeared Before She Could Flee Her Violent Husband. What Happened to China Rose Sims?
Before she vanished, China Rose Sims told family that she wanted to leave her violent husband who threatened to get her killed. Was her disappearance actually her death?
3 min readSep 28, 2022
Who Is China Rose Sims?
China Rose Sims was born in the Philippines in the late 1950s. Her exact birth date isn’t known, though.
For much her life she continued to live there until she met an English man with the name David John Sims.
He came from the Essex region in the U.K., but was on a business trip for his furniture business which he ran at home.
Rose and David married in 1988 and returned to David’s native, England, three years later.
They purchased a house at Lonsdale Road in Southend, Essex. For David, Rose was his fourth wife, and she herself settled well in the U.K., quickly getting a hand at speaking English well.
But by 1993, not everything was as great between the two as it should have been.
