Allan Bryant appeal to feature on Crimewatch

Bbc1: Broadcast will air this morning and will feature Fife man’s parents

An appeal for information about missing Fife man Allan Bryant Jr is to feature on the BBC’S Crimewatch Roadshow.

The broadcast will air on BBC1 at 11am today and will feature the 27-year-old’s parents Marie and Allan Sr.

Police Scotland’s Detective Inspector Kevin Houliston will appear alongside the Glenrothes family in a bid to drum up new leads in the long-running missing person inquiry.

Allan, who was 23 when he disappeared, was last seen leaving Styx Nightclub in the town on November 3 2013.

No trace of him has ever been found despite an extensive police probe and his family hope the nationwide appeal will help shed light on their loved one’s disappearance.

Allan Bryant Sr, 52, said: “It’s been a really hard month and a bit because we’ve actually been keeping this a secret.

“What it does is it gives people another way to actually come forward to the police with information through the Crimewatch Roadshow.

“They can text and there’s a phone number as well. It is a positive step and at the moment that’s what we want to focus on.

“We just hope someone actually

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What it does is it gives people another way to actually come forward to the police with information

comes forward with information to help us find Allan. It may only be four or five minutes but that’s still 480 seconds of coverage about Allan’s case.

“The main thing is it’s going to be aired nationally and it’s a big step toward keeping Allan in the public eye as well.”

The family have campaigned tirelessly to try to find out what happened to their loved one and have previously told how they believe he may have been murdered.

The Bryants have also been the victims of claims from online trolls.

Anyone with information about the missing man’s disappearance is asked to contact Police Scotland on 101 quoting Operation Toner.

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The disappearance of Glenrothes man Allan Bryant Jr is one of the longest running and most perplexing missing person cases of recent years. The young man’s family have endured years of torment, with precious few clues as to his whereabouts ever having been verified.

There has been no shortage of rumour and often cruel conjecture, but sadly an absence of any firm or meaningful leads.

While the case has rarely been out of the headlines, it can only be hoped that an airing on national television at last offers a realistic chance of genuine progress.

The death of a loved one is hard to bear, but can bring with it a sense of closure – so important to the grieving process.

However, when a close relative goes missing those left behind are cruelly robbed of any such dubious benefit.

They are left frozen in time, unable to move on, often clinging on to hope while realistic enough to fear the worst.

To all intents and purposes it becomes no more than a life lived in limbo.

With every passing month there must be new fears that the truth will never be fully revealed – yet all is not lost.

Despite the passage of time there must still be people in the community who know what has happened to Allan Jr.

It is to be hoped this fresh appeal reaches them in a way that all previous attempts have failed.

Allan’s parents, above, hope the television appeal will provide new leads in the investigation into what happened to their son Allan, left.