Deactivate imessage for stolen iphone

Hi,
my son loosed my old iphone 4 with IOS 5 on a festival. Now he is using another cell phone with the same phone number. But everybody with an iphone still send messages as imessage, which he can't receive . I've deleted the registration of the phone yesterday - still no change in behaviour.
How can i tell apple to delete the number for the imessage service that he receives all mesages from IOS devices a SMS?
Thanks a lot for your help!
Kind regards Chris

Hi,
thanks a lot for your help. It would be important to know how the 45 days purging period time works. Is it 45 days after continous unavailability or 45 days of not using the imassage service on both sides with the phone number?
So the questition is, how can somebody report to apple that a phone number can't be reached by imessage any more without waiting 1 1/2 months. If this isn't possible, the global imessage database will show more and more dead entries. Other iphone users will send them imessages which will never reach their destination and there is no error report on the sending device. Even worse if imessage is still releated to the IMEI Number, sombody else receives the messages.
Kind regards Chris

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