Missing man seen walking onto bridge

Hundreds of people have been searching for 21-year-old Stuart Gilson, who disappeared on Saturday night on a night out with friends.

Police released a still image of Stuart as he was going onto Drypool Bridge from the Old Town.

They think he may have turned right down steps onto a riverside walkway, as he headed home to Annandale Road on Greatfield estate.

Det Chief Insp Simon Walker said the images had been shown to his family who confirmed it was the 21-year-old, adding: “We don’t have a sighting of Stuart coming off that bridge.”

Police divers were searching the River Hull yesterday and more searches of the river and other areas will continue today.

The painter and decorator was reported missing on Sunday afternoon. Concern grew when he failed to catch a ferry for a work-related trip to Amsterdam on Sunday evening.

Det Chief Insp Walker said he was keeping an open mind, adding: “It is a very unusual situation when someone who has never been absent from work and is very committed to family and friends and is absent now for four days. I am very concerned but remaining extremely hopeful that Stuart is alive and well.”

There was nothing to suggest Stuart was depressed.

A report by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents was commissioned by Hull Council after two young men drowned in the river in 2007 and 2008.

In 2010 Patrick Stewart, 29, drowned after falling into the Dock Basin near Drypool Bridge. There were no guard rails in the area or lighting and his family said it was “too easy” for someone to fall in.