The Ferocious Dog thing is just a cover story, I heard he's banned indefinitely after snorting coke whilst shagging Flagman's wife.
I'm sure this will be news to Flagman.
Winnits is alive and well, as others have already said all of his attention appears to be directed to moaning about traffic on the M42 and standing on people at Ferocious Dog gatherings.
Only Alan can explain why he has removed his account but from experience when other users say they are leaving they ask for the account to be deleted or locked so they can move on in life without the temptation to join in the threads. However he has spent more money with my company in the last year than he has is the previous 10 so I'm all in favour of his decision!