{"id":294339,"date":"2025-07-26T22:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294339\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T22:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:10:13","slug":"do-not-approach-warning-as-police-ask-for-help-to-find-missing-man-who-could-be-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294339\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Do not approach&#8217; warning as police ask for help to find missing man who could be in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who sees Stephen should call 999<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_LH_BL_260725missingStephen.jpg\" alt=\"Police are appealing for the public's help to find missing Stephen, 58, who may be in Bristol\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Police are appealing for the public&#8217;s help to find missing Stephen, 58, who may be in Bristol(Image: Avon and Somerset Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Police have asked members of the public to call 999 if they see a man who has gone missing. Stephen &#8211; whose surname has not been disclosed &#8211; could be in Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Officers are asking members of the public not to approach the 58-year-old. He was last seen in Swindon at around 8pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He also has links to Bristol, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/bath-and-north-east-somerset\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Bath<\/a> and Wiltshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">An appeal for information by Avon &amp; Somerset Police issued on Saturday (July 26) said: &#8220;We are hoping the public will help us find missing Stephen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;The 58-year-old was last seen at about 8pm in the Swindon area on Wednesday 23 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;However we believe he was in the Broadmead area of Bristol the following day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Stephen has links to Bath, Bristol and Wiltshire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Stephen is described as male, white with blond or brown hair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He was wearing a light-coloured jacket, blue jeans, brown shoes and a tweed flat cap when last seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The appeal added: &#8220;If you see Stephen, please don&#8217;t approach him, call 999 quoting reference 5225210240, or call 101 with other details.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anyone who sees Stephen should call 999Police are appealing for the public&#8217;s help to find missing Stephen, 58,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,12312,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-294339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-broadmead","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114921827403517684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294339","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=294339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}