'It's so unlike him': Sisters appeal for information after Scottish man Greg Monks goes missing on stag do

Sky News

2 days ago

The family of a Scottish man who went missing on a stag do in Portugal have urged police to ramp up their efforts to find him.
Greg Monks, 38, from Glasgow, was last seen in Albufeira in the early hours of Wednesday morning, on the first night of a five-day stag do.
His parents and his girlfriend flew out to Portugal to help with the search the next day, but have not found any recent sightings of him.
Speaking to The UK Tonight with Sarah-Jane Mee, Mr Monks's sisters Jillian and Carlyn said they are "waiting for answers".
"As a family, we're worried sick," Carlyn added. "It's just so unlike him, but myself and Jillian are just trying to hold each other up back home."
Jillian then said: "He deserves to be found, he deserves to be looked for, we need him home.
"He's a big part of our family, and it's just unimaginable if he's just lying somewhere and we can't find him."
Carlyn also called her brother "a real family man", while Jillian said that "I know that if he could phone us or reach out to us, he would, he wouldn't put us through this".
Jillian said that after his friends told her "he's not come home from the night before", they asked "if there was any way we could track his phone or try and see what his location is".
"I just couldn't believe it," she added. "It's not like him, he wouldn't normally do anything like this.
"It had only been 12 hours since he was seen, but we were just so worried."
She and his friends then tried to report Mr Monks as missing, but she said "it wasn't really taken seriously at first because it hadn't been that long".
Jillian added that when her family arrived in Albufeira, police told them they had spotted Mr Monks twice on CCTV footage walking around the residential area.
The area where the 38-year-old was last seen had a lot of "rough terrain" - including rocky outcrops and cliffs - and was more than an hour's walk from the Albufeira Strip, where he was thought to have left his friends.
Jillian then said that while the police are looking for Mr Monks, "they just don't have the manpower" to search the area fully, and "it's been difficult for them to get the information" they are looking for.
The sisters are calling for the police to use dogs to help track down Mr Monks, and have asked locals, "if you know anything, any tiny bit of information, get in touch".