All news on the topic: Missing persons

Adnan Ahmed, who sometimes also goes by the name Asif Khan, was last seen leaving Blackburn Central High School in his school uniform at around 3pm on Thursday, December 21 and has not been seen since

A missing teen who was picked up by a 34-year-old before being taken to his home, raped and strangled has now been found. The 16-year-old girl was found behind a trapdoor

The bodies of heavily pregnant teen Savanah Soto and her boyfriend Matthew Guerra were found in a parked car days after they went missing. Savanah's family have accused Matthew of being abusive but his cousin claims his body showed signs of torture

Two bodies, likely belonging to missing pregnant teen Savanah Nicole Soto and boyfriend Matthew Guerra, were found in a car outside Colinas at Medical Apartments in San Antonio, Texas

Ekaterina A suffered a senseless beating from her ex-husband after she tried to take her son back home - but he jumped in front of his dad to shield his mum outside his school in Russia

Alex Batty, 17, said he never really celebrated Christmas while moving between hippy communes across Europe but was delighted to experience festivities with his grandma in Oldham

A 41-year-old man fell overboard while on a Royal Caribbean cruise to the Bahamas while the ship was off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, but after eight hours of frantic searching the Coast Guard has called off the hunt

Damien Vernon disappeared in December 2014 leaving his daughter, Courtney without a dad - every year she still wraps him a gift and makes his favourite food

A body discovered wrapped in chains by two fishermen in Lake Barkley, Kentucky, almost 25 years ago has finally been identified as Roger Dale Parham, who was on the FBI most wanted list

Susan Caruana, 68, says she'll never be able to forgive her daughter Melanie Batty, 43, after she took her grandson Alex Batty abroad and disappeared for six years with no updates

A family in Scotland are deeply concerned about cyclist Steven Harper after he went missing following a bout of sickness from eating fungi he had foraged

Nicholas Barclay disappeared after playing basketball in June 1994 in San Antonio, Texas, but three years later, a man turned up claiming to be the missing boy, but he turned out to be 'The Chameleon', French conman Frédéric Bourdin

Police have now made the "difficult decision" to call off physical searches for Bristolian Allan, also known as Keith, whose dog returned home alone after a walk

Clare Marshall vanished in the early hours of Monday, December 18, sparking a huge investigation by Police Scotland who have announced a body has now been found in a river

Géro Vigney, the director of a college in France, said he tried to alert police that he had spoken to Alex Batty but they reportedly told him to come back later due to policing strikes

Gurashman Singh Bhatia, 23, was on a night out with friends on Thursday December 14, he was last seen on CCTV in the South Quay area at around 04:20hrs on Friday

Derbyshire Police has released a CCTV image of mum Aminat pushing a buggy along the street after she disappeared with six-week-old baby in the Chaddesden area on Wednesday afternoon

The brutal Los Tiguerones gang, linked to the kidnap of 78-year-old British millionaire businessman Colin Armstrong in Mexico, forces new recruits to eat raw human hearts

Millionaire Colin Armstrong had been forcibly kidnapped from his home in Ecuador last Saturday when he was bundled into a black BMW, but he has now been found alive and well

Geordie Shore fan-favourite says she called for help after struggling with her mental health before police mistakenly classed her as 'missing'

Alex Batty, who was found walking through heavy rain on a French country road, had been missing for six years after travelling to Spain with his mother, Melanie Batty, and grandfather, David Batty

A 64-year-old woman, Clare Marshall, has gone missing in Perth, Scotland, with an 'extensive' search having taken place of the River Tay by resecue teams with police saying they are 'concerned'

The mum of three went missing earlier this month after leaving her workplace in Norwich city centre, and her body was later found in the River Wensum with formal identification now complete

Alex Batty was found wandering along a country road in France, six years after he went missing. British police now want to piece together more details about what happened to him

Darren Osment has been found guilty of murder after he confessed in a 999 call to killing mum of four Claire Holland and disposing of her body in the Severn Estuary in 2012