Fears for Fraserburgh pensioner missing for a week

INVESTIGATORS are ramping up their search for a missing pensioner who disappeared a week ago.

William Richie, 90, from Fraserburgh, was reported missing on January 14 by concerned neighbours at West Road.

A major search has been launched to find William, who is known as Bill, with investigators combing the area including supermarkets he regularly shopped at.

He is known to frequent Fraserburgh’s Asda, as well as a local Co-op store and the Post Office at Mid Street.

Today officers are to hand out flyers across the town and appeal for more information on the pensioner’s whereabouts.

They will be stopping cars on Boothby Road – a street Mr Richie frequents – in case anyone remembers seeing him, and had planned to hand out leaflets at Bellsea Park ahead of the Fraserburgh v Rangers game before it was postponed.

Inspector Kevin Goldie said: “It has been one week since Bill was reported missing and there has been no trace of him since, despite a major search taking place in the town to track every route he’s been known to walk in the past.

“Despite being relatively fit and healthy for his age we are now seven days on and with the weather we’ve had to contend with and the lack of contact, our concerns for him grow every day.”