Cosigning what Roykirbs wrote here. Speaking as one of the individuals whose messages were deleted, you are not really missing anything. They were all messages either discussing random things sandwich face did after the fact that were irrelevant to the ban, or going "Wow! This thread is crazy!" and other simple posts that added nothing to the discussion. It's not some crazy coverup conspiracy nor that the mods don't want people to leave him alone, and the fact that this was the first conclusion you came to is a little concerning. Ideally "leave this banned user alone" should be common sense that doesn't need to be spelled out for people.