RIVER BODY IS NOT LIAM
Family ‘optimistic’ as they continue the search for missing 29-year-old
A BODY pulled from a river in the German city of Hamburg yesterday was not missing Scot Liam Colgan.
His family said they were trying to stay positive after police ruled out any link to the 29-year-old who vanished more than a week ago.
Liam, from Inverness, was on his brother Eamonn’s stag weekend in Hamburg when he disappeared after leaving a bar in the early hours of February 10.
A body was found in the River Elbe yesterday morning near the HHLA Container Terminal in the centre of the city.
Eamonn – who is in Hamburg with fiancee Susan Dolan, 33, to help with the search effort – said: “The police have contacted me and told me the body recovered from the river is not Liam.
“I can’t say who they think it is and they have no reason to tell me.
“But the description does not match Liam.”
Eamonn, 33, a police officer based in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, is focusing on the hunt for his lost brother.
He said: “We are putting a plan together about what areas we need to target next. Until we hear anything otherwise, we can’t give up the search and we have to remain optimistic.”
Our sister paper the Sunday Mail reported yesterday that a bakery worker in the town of Buxtehude, about 15 miles outside Hamburg, was convinced that she saw Liam on Wednesday looking “lost and confused”.
The Find Liam Colgan Facebook page urged people to keep circulating posters in Germany and elsewhere. They added: “With your help we are hopeful for his safe return home.”