Founder Our page acts like sat nav for people who are missing

As well as reuniting long-lost families, the network has played a part in finding nearly 400 missing people.

Missing People Scotland is being used as a tool to locate runaway kids, dementia sufferers and people with mental health issues.

As soon as someone is posted as missing on the site, the message and d photo are shared by thousands of the 80,000 members.

They currently have e more than 20 long-term m missing on the page.

Angie said: “Our page acts like a GPS or sat nav for the missing. g.

“Many are children who turn up within a few hours or days and d others are older people le with dementia who have ave wandered off.

“The bigger our reach, ch, the more chance theree is that someone will have ve spotted them.

“The outcome is not t always a happy one but ut at least we are doing something to let families know we care and want to help in any way we can.”

Angie said her staff are moved by many of the stories.

She added: “A lot of the cases have touched me deeply, especially that of Glasgow dad-of-five John Murphy, whose body was found in Mugdock Country Park in Milngavie 11 months after he went missing. Right up until the end, there was a hope he would turn up alive.

“It was such a tragedy. We’ve ended up becoming close to many of the families, including the Murphys.

“We’ve got 22 long-term missing on the page. We repost their information on a regular basis to ensure they are not forgotten about and to jog people’s memories.”