Who was friend who dissppeared in the first book of his dark materials trilogy?

In Philip Pullman's *His Dark Materials* trilogy, the character who disappears in the first book, *The Golden Compass*, is Roger Parslow.

He is Lyra Belacqua's best friend and is kidnapped by the Gobblers, a group of men who steal children and take them to a mysterious place called the Land of the Dead.