“Devastating to tell our daughters Adrian may not be coming back” – family of missing man

Wednesday 16 December 2015

As the search for missing Adrian Lynch continues, his heartbroken family say it’s “devastating” to tell his little sisters that he might never come home.

Police say that after being missing for 11 days, it’s unlikely that the 20-year-old will be found alive.

They are working on the theory – based on interviews with people who saw him between midnight and 2 am on the night that he disappeared – that he was inebriated after a work night out, and that he was suffering from hypothermia and was disoriented.

A statement from Adrian’s family, released through the police, thanked the police and the emergency services for their work in trying to find their son.

Yesterday, police confirmed that 7,500 man-hours had been put into the search, that 55 witness statements had been taken, and that an aerial drone had been used 55 times to cover the area around St Lawrence where Adrian went missing.

But they say that there is no plan at present to stop looking for him.

The statement from the Lynch family said: “We would like to once again thank everyone for their continuous efforts in finding our son Adrian.

“We have been deeply affected by his disappearance; our home is just not the same without him.

“His younger sisters ask where he has gone and it devastates us to have to tell them that he may not be coming back.

“The amount of people searching and helping is just so overwhelming; our gratitude is heartfelt.

“Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts, it is wonderful, the way the people of Jersey have come together in our hour of need and desperation.”

Adrian went missing between midnight and 2.17 am on Saturday 5 December while walking home from a night out.

He was somewhere in the area in northern St Lawrence when the last of more than a dozen confirmed sightings was made, but apart from his phone, wallet and belt being found, there is still no trace of where he is.

The police are still trying to trace a driver who spoke to Adrian on the night he vanished.

They are trying to find the driver – who was seen speaking to the 20-year-old – around the Six Roads junction at Carrefour Selous at around 12.20 am last Saturday morning, just after he was dropped off in a taxi.

There have been confirmed sightings of Adrian after that point, so investigators do not think he was the last person to speak to him – but they’re keen to find out anything that Adrian said about where he was going.

No description of the car or driver has been issued.

Anyone who knows anything at all should contact the police on 612612.