Active searches stood-down for missing 70-year-old

Mr Latcham has been missing since 30th December 2017. Credit: Dorset Police

Following two days of intensive search activity - involving hundreds of emergency service personnel, partner agencies and specialist volunteers - police have taken the difficult decision to stand-down active searches for 70-year-old Andrew Latcham.

Mr Latcham was last seen on CCTV leaving supported accommodation on Park Road, Blandford Forum in Dorset at around 3:30am in the early hours of Saturday 30 December 2017.

He was wearing dark trainers with white soles, tracksuit bottoms and a dark raincoat.

Since then, searches have focused around the River Stour and other waterways that Andrew was familiar with as a kayaker, the Blandford Trailway and other footpaths, floodplains and open spaces in and around Blandford, and the routes and villages between Blandford and Hamworthy.