Police increasingly concerned for man missing from Mansfield area

Special search teams are scouring the area as police officers grow increasingly concerned for missing vulnerable man Michael Dennington.
By Dale Spridgeon
Published 11th Jun 2020, 19:50 BST
Updated 11th Jun 2020, 19:51 BST
Michael Dennington - Picture: Mansfield Police: Forest Town, Woodhouse, Berry Hill and surrounding areas/FacebookMichael Dennington - Picture: Mansfield Police: Forest Town, Woodhouse, Berry Hill and surrounding areas/Facebook
Michael Dennington - Picture: Mansfield Police: Forest Town, Woodhouse, Berry Hill and surrounding areas/Facebook

Mansfield police say the 58-year-old was reported missing from the Mansfield area on Sunday, May 31.

The last official sighting is from a CCTV image of him leaving Kings Mill Hospital at 3.24pm on Tuesday, May 26.Michael is described as having a slim build, 5ft 2 tall with dark brown, short hair. He was last seen wearing grey jogging bottoms, white trainers and a black waist length jacket.

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He has links to neighbouring towns and villages including Newark, Selston, Ollerton, Cliptsone, Worksop and Sutton-in-Ashfield, and to Cleethorpes, Glossop and Derby.

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The Missing From Home team have carried out enquiries and extensively viewing CCTV footage. Officers are also working with the force's specialist search teams in the area but so far there has been no indication to his whereabouts.Detective Inspector Stuart Temple said: "We will keep searching and carrying out rigorous enquiries but we are also exploring the possibility that Michael has got into a vehicle somewhere in the vicinity of Kings Mill Hospital, and has left the area."We appeal to anyone who might have seen a gentleman matching his description getting into a car - maybe a taxi between 3pm and 4pm on Tuesday, May 26 to get in touch with us, and for anyone who might know anything about Michael, no matter how small, to please provide us with that information.For sightings call 101, quote incident number 0758 ,May 31, 2020. Call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.