Liam Colgan: Hamburg CCTV images give fresh hope for missing man's family

The brother of a man who went missing more than a week ago while on his sibling's stag weekend in Hamburg says new CCTV images are a "positive" development in their continued search for him.

Liam Colgan, 29, from Inverness, was last seen at 1.30am on Saturday 10 February in the Hamborger Veermaster bar in the Reeperbahn area of the city.

He is believed to have left the venue a few minutes before the rest of the group, who called police when he failed to turn up for activities planned for that afternoon.

Liam's brother Eamonn, who, along with his father and others, has stayed on in Hamburg to continue the search, said on Monday they confirmed a positive CCTV sighting of him at around 2.20am near the G&J building in Baumwall in the city.

A witness reports seeing Liam and helping him up some steps to the main entrance of that building after he fell, an account backed up by CCTV.

The footage then shows Liam trying unsuccessfully to get in to the building, before walking towards the Michelwiese Park.

He is helped again by the same witness to get into this park, and is last seen heading towards the Portuguese Quarter at around 2.30am.

Mr Colgan said: "It's a positive for us that we've seen a positive CCTV image of him and we want to raise further awareness of him in that area."

Mr Colgan, whose wedding next month the group was celebrating, admits he is baffled by Liam's disappearance, calling it "completely out of character".

"The only theory we can have is that he's tried to make his way home. He planned the trip, so he's maybe decided 'I can find my way home. I'm gonna' go and do that,'" he said.

"Whether he's injured himself in some way, he's had some sort of memory loss after maybe a fall, suffered some sort of head injury and maybe got lost?", Mr Colgan added.

The Lucie Blackman Trust, which is helping with the search, has launched an urgent appeal for information or CCTV images from people who were in the Baumwall area or the Portuguese Quarter of Hamburg at around 2.30am on 10 February.

The trust said it is assessing a large number of calls and emails providing further potential sightings and information.

Hamburg Police have been using search dogs and searching the Buxtehude area, next to Hamburg railway station where Liam was reportedly seen on Wednesday and Thursday.

On a Facebook page set up to find Liam there have been reports about a "confused Scotsman" wandering the city of Hamburg.