Come home, Daddy

AGONY FOR FAMILIES OF MISSING

- BY JACKIE ANNETT

ALL Tessa Capon can cling to on Father's Day is a favourite photo, a tatty old teddy bear and hope.

Today, as millions tell their fathers they love them, Tessa, 41, faces another special day without dad Andrew, who went missing in 1998.

Painful feelings always surface on this day. Tessa, closing her eyes and searching for hope, says: “Father's Day is the hardest day of the year. Another year you can't spend Father's Day with your dad. You've just got to keep hoping that one day you'll find him.

“Hope is all that missing families have.”

Tessa bravely joined Dottie, five, April, eight, Chanel, 18, and Dougie, 21, who are facing their first Father's Day without their “family man” Douglas Mills, 44, last seen on January 25.

The heartbroken children are speaking in support of our Missed campaign run with our sister paper the Daily Mirror and backed by the Missing People charity urging more help and care for missing people and their families.

They hope telling their stories might help to find their missing dads. Andrew Capon was 37 when he disappeared without trace on October 2, 1998, after a night out with three pals in Skegness, Lincs.

Despite endlessly searching for answers, his family still have no idea what happened to him. He would now be 64, with 12 grandchildren, aged from four to 24, waiting to meet him.