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<\/p>\nThe mother of missing Bristol student Jack O\u2019Sullivan has spoken in support of Taylor Charlton\u2019s friends and family and says the situation brings back \u2018horrendous memories\u2019 – but has warned of mistakes that ‘she is having to live with.’<\/p>\n
Jack disappeared in the early hours of Saturday, March 2, 2024, following a night out in Hotwells, Bristol. Extensive searches were carried out, but no trace of Jack has been discovered since.<\/p>\n
Jack\u2019s family continue to hunt for answers more than two years later.<\/p>\n
In a post to the Facebook group \u2018Find Jack\u2019, Catherine O\u2019Sullivan, Jack\u2019s mother posted a missing person poster of Taylor alongside an emotional message of support to Taylor\u2019s friends and family.<\/p>\n
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Jack O’Sullivan’s mum Catherine(Image: Tom Wren \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cWe rarely post regarding other missing people but seeing how this situation has unfolded over the past few days it brings back all the horrendous memories (most of which we are still dealing with 26 months on).<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease support the family of missing Taylor by raising as much awareness as possible.<\/p>\n
“My family made the mistake of believing everything was being done to find Jack in the first few days and weeks – we were wrong and are having to live with the consequences.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t let this happen again to another family. I would urge the public to do things safely and not get in the way of the police but leave no stone unturned.<\/p>\n
\u201cSending love, strength and prayers to all Taylor\u2019s family and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taylor Charlton,14, from Barnstaple<\/a>, was last seen at around 10.40pm on Friday, May 8, near Tesco<\/a> in the Seven Brethren area.<\/p>\n He is described as around 5ft 8ins tall, of muscular build, with dark brown hair and a moustache. He was last seen wearing a bright blue fitted top, jeans and bright blue Nike shoes.<\/p>\n Yesterday, Sector Inspector Andy Wills said the investigation remains \u2018very much active\u2019 and it is believed Taylor entered the River Taw.<\/p>\n Since his disappearance, community groups have united to try and find the young boy.<\/p>\n Police have deployed specialist teams, drones and a police helicopter to help find Taylor.<\/p>\n Anyone who may have information is asked to contact police by calling 999, quoting reference number 50260117084.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother of missing Bristol student Jack O\u2019Sullivan has spoken in support of Taylor Charlton\u2019s friends and family…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[5613,393,3187,5,6],"class_list":["post-46247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-barnstaple","tag-facebook","tag-tesco","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116621228293380752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}