AFTER ONE YEAR OF SEARCHING Every day is a living hell... somebody must know something about my missing son

CATHERINE O'Sullivan's world stopped a year ago today when her son went missing. Every day since has been worse than the last.

- JACKIE ANNETT

Her youngest son Jack, then 22, had been at a house party in Bristol with pals and was later seen on CCTV in the early hours trying to flag down a taxi to get to the family home 10 miles away.

He never arrived. And Catherine, dad Alan and brother Ben, 28, still have no answers. Catherine says: "Every day is hell. We have no evidence to suggest Jack is no longer with us and no information to say where he is.

"I'm stuck on March 2, 2024. It's hard to explain how we are feeling.

"The world stops - and it only gets more painful, not less.

"I feel as though I'm watching this nightmare on TV but sadly this is our life." Jack, of Flax Bourton, Somerset, had studied history at Exeter University and was excited about starting a law placement.

Catherine texted him at 1.52am on March 2, offering a lift home but he replied that he would catch a cab. When he did not arrive Catherine instinctively knew something was wrong and called the police.

Officers spotted Jack on CCTV walking near the Cumberland Basin, water near Bristol Harbour, so focused their efforts there. They told the family he had probably fallen in, just like 85% of men who go missing near water after a night out.

But, without a body, the O'Sullivans cannot accept this. Catherine says: "I'm convinced he never fell into the water as the police never found anything.

They haven't located his phone or found anything that belonged to him.

"They focused all their attention on this theory and were slow to follow up other lines of inquiry. Catherine and a team of private detectives have devoted endless hours to searching for Jack, who would now be 23.