Public appeals and police searches

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

November 3: CCTV shows Mr Bryant leaving Styx nightspot alone at 2.02am.

November 21: Mr Bryant’s mother Marie Degan makes a plea for her son to return home on his 24th birthday.

May 18 2014: 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. The release of the footage 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.

August 26: Stewart McInroy is jailed for 10 months after sending online taunts to the Bryant family, claiming that he had “brutally tortured and murdered” Allan.

April 17 2015: Allan’s family, assisted by specialist search dogs, search MuchtyWoods, near Auchtermuchty, following rumours that he may have attended a party there after leaving Styx nightclub. The search proves fruitless.

April 26: Allan’s grandmother Isobel McNamee passes away at the age of 74 without knowing what happened to her grandson.

August 4: Skeletal remains are found in Riverside Park, Glenrothes. The Bryant family are informed, but the remains are soon found to be those ofWayne Fleming, also reported missing from the town.

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

June 16 2017: Police seal off a house in Barnton Place, Glenrothes following fresh evidence supplied by a member of the public. The search is concluded five weeks later without any breakthrough.