‘No plans to scale back search for Adrian’ - police

Tuesday 15 December 2015

Police say that they have spent a total of 7,500 hours searching for missing Adrian Lynch – but that they have no intention of scaling the hunt back after it entered its tenth day.

They say that ten agencies – including police from Guernsey and Humberside – have been drafted in to help, and that their work will continue.

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 just over a week ago. 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.

At the end of last week, the detective leading the operation – Detective Superintendent Stewart Gull – said that it was unlikely that Adrian would be found alive.

He said that they were working under the theory that he had become disoriented and was suffering from hypothermia – the last sightings reported that he was just wearing a white shirt, and no jacket.

Stats issued by the police last night showed:

- 7,500 man-hours have been spent looking for Adrian.

- 55 witness statements have been taken.

- 242 homes have been visited on house-to-house inquiries, and 450 people have been spoken to.

- The Channel Islands Air Search plane has spent seven hours flying over the Island.

- A drone has been used 55 times, covering 74,000 metres, and has taken 30 videos and 1,060 aerial images.

The search effort has been boosted by work from: the States of Jersey Police, The Honorary Police, Jersey Fire and Rescue, Ports of Jersey, Jersey Ambulance Service, Jersey Search and Rescue, Normandy Rescue, the Red Cross, St John’s Ambulance, Channel Islands Air Search, the States of Guernsey Police, Humberside Police and the College of Policing.

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