{"id":301364,"date":"2025-07-29T14:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301364\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T14:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:05:17","slug":"family-of-dad-who-vanished-in-glasgow-left-heartbroken-as-they-launch-search-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301364\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of dad who vanished in Glasgow left &#8216;heartbroken&#8217; as they launch search plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Smith, 23, has not been seen or heard from since Saturday.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753797913_101_1_CapturePNG.png\" alt=\"David Smith, 23, with sister Shannonkay, 24\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>David Smith, 23, with sister Shannonkay, 24(Image: Glasgow Live)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A heartbroken family are desperately trying to find a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/wishaw\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Wishaw Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Wishaw <\/a>dad who vanished in Glasgow city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">David Smith has not been in touch with his tight-knit family since Saturday, July 26. The last sighting of the 23-year-old was by his mother at 12pm that day in the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/north-lanarkshire-council\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"North LanarkshireLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">North Lanarkshire<\/a> town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It&#8217;s understood dad-of-one David boarded a train alone at Cleland and travelled to Glasgow Central station. He disembarked with three other men, and walked to Gordon Street, before <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/missing-people\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"disappearing Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">disappearing <\/a>from view.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">David, who is a father to a three-year-old boy, has not been seen or heard from <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/wishaw\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"sinceLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">since<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753797917_505_0_CapturePNG.png\" alt=\"David Smith, 23. \" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>David Smith, 23. (Image: Glasgow Live)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Speaking to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowlive.co.uk\/news\/glasgow-news\/missing-dad-last-seen-glasgow-32158589\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Glasgow LiveLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Glasgow Live<\/a>, his sister, Shannonkay Smith, 24, said: \u201cWe\u2019re all heartbroken. I\u2019m heading into Glasgow to look for my brother and to put up posters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cHe\u2019s very vulnerable. My brother is not in a right headspace; he\u2019s in a dark place. He has a beautiful young boy at home who needs him, and a family who love him, and we just want to hear that he\u2019s <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/missing-people\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"safe Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">safe <\/a>or that someone has seen him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThis is totally out of character for <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/missing-people\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"DavidLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">David<\/a>. He calls my mum fifty times a day to make sure she\u2019s not taken an extra step he doesn\u2019t know about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cHe\u2019s really close to his family and protective of his <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/north-lanarkshire-council\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"familyLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">family<\/a>. When we do have fall outs, he\u2019s always in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/missing-people\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"touchLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">touch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Shannonkay added: \u201cThere\u2019s been no call at all. We\u2019ve had no <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/glasgow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"contact Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">contact <\/a>from twelve o\u2019clock on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;My brother doesn\u2019t know people in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/glasgow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GlasgowLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Glasgow<\/a>, he has no friends there. He has never done any of this before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Police ScotlandLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Scotland<\/a> has been approached for further information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Smith, 23, has not been seen or heard from since Saturday.David Smith, 23, with sister Shannonkay, 24(Image:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,10008,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-301364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-missing-people","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114936907935249658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301364","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=301364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}