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Daily Mail
a day ago
- Daily Mail
Moment frail missing pensioner uses cane to walk along street: Police release CCTV in hopes of tracing 89-year-old who vanished DAYS ago
This is the heartbreaking moment a missing pensioner is seen using his cane to walk along the street as police plea to the public for help. Footage shows Malcolm, 89, was last seen on Wednesday walking along Westfield Close in the area of Hull Road in Easington between 8am – 9.30am on the day of his disappearance. The frail man vanished days ago and police are 'growing increasingly concerned for his welfare.' Officers have trawled the area knocking on the doors of locals, diving through hours of CCTV and even used scent dogs - but have been unsuccessful in their search for Malcolm. The force have urged the public to check their gardens, sheds, outbuildings and any covered areas as they believe the pensioner could be found sheltering there. They are also keen to speak to pedestrians and drivers travelling along Hull Road around the time Malcolm was last seen and have said motorists shoul check their dash cam footage. Leading the she search, Inspector Will Knapp at Humberside police said: 'We have been trawling hours of CCTV and doorbell footage, conducting house to house enquiries and area searches of rural locations to try and understand which direction Malcolm may have travelled in since leaving his home. 'As part of those enquiries, the CCTV footage shows Malcolm walking along Westfield Close at approximately 8.10am that morning (Wednesday, 4 June). 'Malcolm is then thought to have walked towards the junction of Hull Road before heading west at approximately 8.15am. This is the last confirmed sighting of him. 'He is described as being approximately 5ft 8ins tall with grey hair and is thought to be wearing a grey gilet with brown trousers and carrying a walking stick. 'From this point, with support from specialist trained search officers, scent dogs and the Underwater Search unit, alongside partnering agencies and Malcolm's family and friends, teams have been extending their searches we continue to conduct further lines of enquiries to understand Malcom's movements and try and trace his next steps. 'As part of this, we are keen to speak to pedestrians and motorists travelling along Hull Road between 8am and 9.30am around the time Malcolm was last seen. I'd also encourage anyone who has any CCTV or dashcam footage around this time to please get in touch. 'We would also urge members of the public to check sheds, outbuildings and any covered areas, if your neighbours are away, please check their gardens too.' He added: 'Anybody who has any information, no matter how small, dashcam or CCTV footage, or who may know where Malcolm may be and can assist us with locating him to please contact us our non-emergency number 101 quoting log 177of 4 June.'
BBC News
14-05-2025
- BBC News
The Border Force battle against drugs at sea
With an increase in maritime drugs seizures, the BBC has been given rare access to one of the Border Force's patrol cutter units patrol UK waters looking for anything out of the ordinary.I join the Valiant as it sails in the North Sea off the East Yorkshire Vidamour, head of operations for Border Force Maritime Command, says smugglers are using increasingly sophisticated methods, including dropping packages from large ships to be picked up and brought to shore by smaller vessels. "Last year we intercepted six separate operations of that nature, where a vessel had gone to sea to collect drugs directly from a vessel up from South America," Mr Vidamour says."It's absolutely something we are seeing more and more and we are being more active in detecting and seizing." One of the UK's biggest ever drugs shipments was intercepted in May 2024 when a dinghy carrying half a tonne of cocaine with a street value of £42m was seized after it landed at year, 29 tonnes of cocaine was seized by officers across the UK, with 75% of that coming in by journey begins on a calm, sunny day at Grimsby is surprising how spacious the craft feels with a kitchen, rest room, bunks and showering deck looking out, I can see a number of boats all navigating their way around the busy motorway of the Humber is one of six vessels in the Border Force work two weeks on, two weeks off and could be out for up to three days patrolling anywhere in UK patrol boats are equipped with smaller inflatable craft, known as ribs, which can be launched off the back and are used to intercept criminals in smaller boats and retrieve packages dropped in the water. The real challenge for officers is to have the information to put their boats in the right places at the right time, Border Force say."We absolutely rely on information predominantly from the public," Mr Vidamour tells me."We ask for anything that stands out. For us that would be something like vessels coming and going from port at strange times at night, people unequipped for the journey that they're conducting, poor seamanship in a marina, which might indicate that someone is a first time mariner."Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
