{"id":423580,"date":"2025-09-14T11:40:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T11:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/423580\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T11:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T11:40:32","slug":"police-knock-over-100-doors-as-missing-edinburgh-busker-search-hits-five-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/423580\/","title":{"rendered":"Police knock over 100 doors as missing Edinburgh busker search hits five weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Officers<\/a> are growing increasingly concerned as they continue the search for missing Lewis Cuthbert.<\/p>\n

Lewis, 25, was last seen around 4pm on Monday August 4 2025 in the Lesmahagow Road area of Strathaven.<\/p>\n

The busker is known to visit the capital as well as Glasgow to perform and has been described as 5ft 10in tall, of slim build with short brown hair.<\/p>\n

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Officers are appealing to the public for help and have said he may have grown facial hair since he was last seen. He is believed to have been wearing a brown cord jacket with sheepskin collar when last seen and carrying a backpack with Bluetooth speaker and microphone.<\/p>\n

A dedicated team of officers has been carrying out extensive enquiries in the areas he is known to visit, including Edinburgh and Glasgow.<\/p>\n

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CCTV footage has been reviewed, and over 100 homes in the Strathaven area have been visited as part of door-to-door enquiries.<\/p>\n

Local officers are being supported by national resources, including specialist search teams, drones from the air support unit, as well as officers searching on quad bikes and using dogs.<\/p>\n

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Chief Inspector Paul Doyle, local area commander, said: \u201cIt has now been almost six weeks since Lewis was reported missing and we continue to work hard to trace him, using every resource at our disposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoor-to-door enquiries continue to be carried out and officers will be in the Strathaven area this weekend while our searches are ongoing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue to urge the public to come forward with any information they may have. No matter how small it may seem, it may be key to helping us find him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone who has any information should contact 101 quoting incident number 1371 of 8 August, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers are growing increasingly concerned as they continue the search for missing Lewis Cuthbert. Lewis, 25, was last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,144705,712,101105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-423580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-lewis-cuthbert","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-strathaven","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115202466257240496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423580","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=423580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}