CCTV hopein searchfor missingpensioner

POLICE are studying CCTV footage from York city centre as the nine-month search for missing Hull pensioner Michael Conboy continues.

Mr Conboy, 81, of Saxcourt, Hull, vanished after speaking to relatives at 10.30pm on Sunday, April 19, last year and was reported missing the following morning.

Despite appeals for information and searches involving mounted officers, police divers and dog handlers in the Hull area, the retired council gardener has not been traced.

It is thought he may have been confused at the time after hospital treatment for a virus.

Although police said it was no longer an active inquiry, officers have begun looking through 12 hours of footage from York after a reported sighting of Mr Conboy in the city last month.

His nephew Paul Robinson said the family remained “desperate” for information and believed he was unlikely to have travelled out of Yorkshire.

Mr Robinson, 47, said: “It’s a vicious circle because the police say they can’t carry out further searches without fresh information, and we can’t get fresh information until they carry out further searches.

“We don’t think he can have gone far and nobody can completely disappear; somebody must have seen him.”

Mr Conboy, known as Mick to his friends, is 5ft 4in to 5ft 5in, very slim and balding with grey hair. Anyone with information can call police on 0845 6060 222.