Make or break talks with police for lost student's parents

Russell Bohling, 18, who is considered vulnerable because of a speech and language disorder, was last seen when he left home in West Ella, near Hull, for Bishop Burton College, near Beverley, at 8am on March 2.

It is not clear whether he arrived and his car was found abandoned 45 miles away at Bempton Cliffs nature reserve, near Bridlington.

Humberside Police are treating the case as a missing persons inquiry, but his parents believe he may have been murdered.

Russell, a second-year construction student with a near-perfect attendance record, was about to get 300,000 from his parents, who fear he may have been killed by someone who had learned of the windfall.

Chief Supt Richard Kerman, of Humberside Police, will meet Russell's parents, Roger and Christine, on Tuesday to discuss the findings of a report into the inquiry by North Yorkshire Police Superintendent Javad Ali.

Humberside said the report was confidential but the Bohlings would get a summary of its findings.

Mr Bohling said without seeing the full report it would be difficult to have meaningful discussions about it, although he still had questions to ask.

"We can't intelligently challenge a document we haven't had the opportunity to see," he said. "As far as I'm concerned it (the meeting) will be make or break because they have told us they have done everything they can and we want to know whether they can back that up. We want to know they haven't let Russell down.

"We've got some hard questions to put to them and we don't expect to be fobbed off; we expect them to give us the answers."

Supt Ali met the Bohlings on May 4 to ask which aspects of the inquiry they wanted him to focus on. He began his review on May 10 and submitted his report to Humberside on May 30. Mr Bohling said he was disappointed it had taken over a month to arrange the meeting.

He added: "We are a family that is under a lot of strain and we need answers. We are very low. We are just sitting here getting progressively more depressed."

A spokeswoman for Humberside Police said: "It's a confidential police report that was commissioned for police purposes."Having said that, we will sit down with Mr Bohling to share the conclusions of that report with him."