Crowds search for missing student who answered phone to friend before line cut

Crowds have gathered to carry out a massive search for a student who went missing nearly three months ago. Jack O'Sullivan, who went missing on a night in March was last seen walking near Bristol city centre.

The 23-year-old, was seen on CCTV walking along Brunel Lock Road, on Saturday, March 2 at 3.15am, having attended a birthday party in the Hotwells area. He has not been seen since.

Over the weekend, crowds assembled with search parties distributing leaflets across Bristol. They contain information about Jack and his last known whereabouts, in hopes that it might jog someone's memory of the night he disappeared.

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As part of their ongoing investigation, police have released two new CCTV clips of Jack. His last confirmed sighting was in Bristol's Hotwells area as he walked onto a grassy area at the junction of Brunel Lock Way and Brunel Way.

It is believed that Jack was making his way home after an evening out with friends.

The police are appealing to anyone who was in the vicinity of Brunel Way, Brunel Lock Road, Junction Swing Bridge, Plimsol Swing Bridge or the Portway between 2.45am and 4am on Saturday, March 2, to come forward if they have any information that could help with the investigation, reports Bristol Live.

His distraught mum Catherine O'Sullivan, from Neath, has been out looking with family members most days and said: "We have tried to retrace his steps because we have footage of him. We have come out at three o'clock in the morning into the area to walk the route we know he took. We wanted to see how well lit it might be and to search for an answer really.

"Jack's birthday was hell on earth, it really was. I want the world to try and give me an answer to where Jack is."

Every day for 10 weeks, his older brother Ben has been visiting a Bristol flyover, which you pass on the way to Bristol Airport, looking for his brother.

He told the BBC: "There's been a lot of unanswered questions since then. But going down there has provided us a way of trying to get to the bottom of everything. So this has become a daily routine almost."