{"id":1022847,"date":"2026-06-12T23:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1022847\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T23:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:03:19","slug":"missing-welsh-man-spotted-on-edinburgh-bus-as-police-continue-major-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1022847\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Welsh man spotted on Edinburgh bus as police continue major search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;It is believed he may have gotten off the bus in the Ingliston area&#8217;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"He was spotted on an Edinburgh bus\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0_Screenshot-2026-06-12-202145.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"He was spotted on an Edinburgh bus\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">He was spotted on an Edinburgh bus<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/missing-people\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">missing<\/a> Welsh man was reportedly spotted on an Edinburgh bus as police continue a major search. Ross Chappel, 42, has been reported missing from Abercynon on May 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He has links in the Cynon, Taff and Bridgend areas of Wales. Police Scotland Edinburgh have said there was a sighting of him on the number 28 Flix Bus on June 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He may have gotten off the bus at Ingliston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A statement from South Wales Police reads: &#8220;Ross was last seen in the early hours of Monday May 25, at Martins Close, Abercynon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;He has links in the Cynon, Taff and Bridgend areas. He was dressed all in black with cargo trousers and a black back pack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;He has shoulder length black hair and normally wears a black balaclava.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police Scotland Edinburgh said: &#8220;There was a sighting of Ross on the number 82 Flix bus for Edinburgh on Saturday, 6 June, 2026, at around 11.20am. It is believed he may have gotten off the bus in the Ingliston area.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;It is believed he may have gotten off the bus in the Ingliston area&#8217; He was spotted on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1022848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,10008,530,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-1022847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-britain","tag-edinburgh","tag-great-britain","tag-missing-people","tag-police-scotland","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116739637637258951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1022848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}