23/10/2018

Snow Patrol Join Appeal For Missing Dad

NI band Snow Patrol have joined the public appeal to help find missing man Robert Holmes.

The 42-year-old father of three has been missing since he was last seen on Wednesday 17 October in Newtownabbey, County Antrim.

Robert is a singer-songwriter and police and rescue workers have been working alongside his family to find him.

In an online appeal, Snow Patrol said: "Our friend Robert Holmes has been missing since Wednesday.

"Last seen in the Mossley area of Belfast. If anyone has any info please call 101 or 999."

Their post has been shared hundreds of times and echoed by other musicians who knew Robert.

Robert is described as being 6ft tall, of slim wild with blue eyes, dirty fair hair and facial stubble.

He was believed to have been wearing a dark, waterproof coat, a grey/black hooded top and a green beanie style hat.



(JG)

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