Family, friends and community leaders have been given an update by police as the search for missing Glenrothes man Allan Bryant approaches its fourth month.
Allan has not been seen since 2am on November 3, when he was outside Styx nightclub in the town’s Caskieberran Road.
His family have admitted to increasing frustration as the mystery continues, and officers held a meeting to update them on the efforts to find him.
Officers say it is already one of the most extensive missing person enquiries ever held in Fife.
Local councillors Betty Campbell, Peter Grant and Altnay Craik also attended the meeting.
Glenrothes Community Inspector Derek Paxton said: “The enquiries we have undertaken so far in an effort to trace Allan have proved to be one of the most wide-ranging and extensive ever carried out in Fife in response to a missing person enquiry of this nature.
“As well as hundreds of enquiries to trace potential witnesses, extensive searches in the Glenrothes area have been completed by specialist search officers working from where Allan was last seen. These have been extended in all directions to take in areas such as the Riverside Park, Glenrothes and Leslie.
“These officers have also been assisted by the Police Scotland underwater search team and air support unit helicopter. Detailed searches of areas at a continually increasing distance from Styx nightclub are still continuing and I would like to repeat a previous call to residents in the Glenrothes area to again check your sheds and outbuildings, in case anything has changed in the last few weeks that may be of significance to our enquiries.”
The family’s frustration has been made clear in posts on the Find Allan Bryant facebook group.
In a recent post, his father, also Allan, said: “We will never ever give up to find out what has happened to Allan. I will take this to the highest level possible but at this moment I have to let them (the police) do what they are doing.
“They are still working on things.”
Inspector Paxton added: “From our meeting with Allan’s family and friends, their frustration and anxiety remains all too apparent in not knowing where he is.
“I would like to take this opportunity to ask anyone who may have information about his whereabouts to contact the Police by phoning 101, or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111, and help us put an end to his family’s worry.”