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Island daily calls on national media to help it find missing man

An island daily has called on the national media to help in its bid to find a man missing for eight months.

The Jersey Evening Post has launched the appeal with the family of Adrian Lynch, who went missing in after attending a work Christmas party.

Only the 20-year-old’s belt, phone and wallet have been recovered since his disappearance in the early hours of 5 December.

While police maintain that they believe Mr Lynch is missing through ‘misadventure’ and may have succumbed to hypothermia. His father Danny and stepmother Sharon believe he has been the victim of a crime.

In a bid to renew interest in the case, the couple spoke to JEP reporter Jack Maguire last week.

The newspaper splashed on the couple’s fresh appeal for witnesses on Thursday, pictured below.

JEP Adrian

Said Jack: “Adrian has been missing for nearly eight months. The JEP and other media outlets on the Island have shared countless appeals from the States of Jersey police but the force say leads are running dry.

“I met with Danny and Sharon last week and they have called on national media across the UK to help them share the case. There is a chance that someone with key information has left the Island or returned to the UK and not seen some of the appeals.

“This is a truly extraordinary case. For someone to simply vanish in a nine-mile by five-mile Island is, as the police say, unprecedented. I know it would mean a lot to the family for the UK’s media to help share their appeal.”

A £10,000 reward, put forward by an anonymous donor, is on offer for information leading to Mr Lynch’s discovery.

As well as Jersey, his stepmother Sharon has links to Liverpool.

His father Danny said: “Sharon and I hope that other media outlets outside of Jersey would help us get the message out there regarding our son Adrian being missing, and the reward that has been kindly offered by an anonymous donor which could hopefully bring some new information that may lead his discovery.”