{"id":593487,"date":"2025-11-25T20:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593487\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:08:16","slug":"search-launched-to-find-missing-boy-17-not-seen-for-over-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593487\/","title":{"rendered":"Search launched to find missing boy, 17, not seen for over a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald has not been seen since last Monday<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1_JH_MEN_251125_GERALDJPG.jpg\" alt=\"Gerald has not been seen since last Monday\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Gerald has not been seen since last Monday(Image: GMP Bury)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">A search has been launched to find a missing teenage boy who has not been seen in over a week. Gerald, 17, whose surname was not disclosed by police, was last seen on Manchester Road in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/bury\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Bury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/greater-manchester-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Greater Manchester Police<\/a> said the last sighting of the 17-year-old was at 4.15pm on Monday, November 17. The force said officers &#8216;want to make sure he is safe and well&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">Gerald is described as a white male, around 5ft 7ins tall, and of a slim build with short, dark brown hair. He was last seen wearing a red coat, black LV joggers, black Nike trainers and a yellow JD bag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">A statement issued by police said: &#8220;Officers are becoming increasingly concerned about him and want to make sure he is safe and well&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\">A photo of Gerald was also issued as part of the public appeal. Anyone with any information regarding his whereabouts is being urged to contact police immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"men\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Anyone with information should call police on 0161 856 8174 quoting log 3022 of 18\/11\/25.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gerald has not been seen since last MondayGerald has not been seen since last Monday(Image: GMP Bury) A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,1285,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-593487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-bury","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115612150842519992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593487","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=593487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}