Timeline of the Allan Bryant missing person case

2013: November 2 – Allan Bryant Jr leaves his family home on Ednam Drive at 8.30pm for a night out.

November 3 – CCTV shows Allan leaving Styx alone at 2.02am.

November 21 – Allan’s mother, Marie Degan, makes a plea for him to return home on his 24th birthday.

2014: May 18 – More than 200 people take part in a march through Glenrothes to highlight Allan’s disappearance.

June 5 – Police release CCTV footage of Allan, seven months after his disappearance. It coincides with a new appeal for information relating to his whereabouts.

August 14 – The Bryant family hire a light aircraft to conduct an aerial search of the areas where they believe Allan may have gone.

2015: April 17 – Allan’s family, helped by dogs, search Muchty Woods following rumours that he may have attended a party there after leaving Styx. The search proves fruitless.

April 26 – Allan’s grandmother, Isobel McNamee, dies not knowing what happened to her grandson. Allan Sr says the disappearance had left her “devastated”.

August 4 – Skeletal remains are found in Riverside Park, Glenrothes. The Bryant family are informed of the discovery, but the remains are of another man.

2016: April 18 – Police conduct a three-day search of woodland near the Secret Bunker, again following new information passed to the Bryant family. Nothing is found.

September 16 – Police Scotland remove the Bryant’s family liaison officer, a move described as “a kick in the teeth” by Allan Sr.

2017: June 16 to July 18 – Police search a house in Barnton Place.

September 5 – Police Investigations and Review Commissioner says Police Scotland failed to sufficiently address search concerns raised by the family.

2018: January 29 – Petition calling for new police force to take over search for Allan reaches 5,000 signatures.

April 2 – Police Scotland chiefs apologise to Bryant family for delays in releasing CCTV.

June 19 – Family appear on BBC’s Crimewatch with appeal.

July 26 – Search of River Leven in Glenrothes turns up no evidence.

November 3 – Family and friends plan to release balloons to mark the five-year anniversary of his disappearance.