Searches were continuing yesterday to find a missing Inverness teenager who has not been seen for almost a week.
Concerns were growing for the safety of Adam Mitchell, whose disappearance from the city has been described as “out of character”.
The 18-year-old was last seen on CCTV footage walking near the Harry Fairbairn BMW garage on Longman Road.
He was known to have been spoken to at about 9pm the previous evening at a pub in the Baron Taylor Street area in the city centre.
It is understood that police were due to carry out a poster and leaflet drop in the areas around where Mr Mitchell was last seen.
They were also expected to stop vehicles in the Longman area around where he was recorded by CCTV in the hope of finding regular road users who may have been in the area at the time Mr Mitchell was captured on camera.
Other police inquiries have been ongoing.
A search of the shoreline either side of the Kessock Bridge was carried out at the weekend by lifeboat crews, ground coastguard teams and a search and rescue helicopter last weekend.
In a previous appeal for information, a spokesman for the force said: “In appealing for information, officers are asking members of the public to check any outbuildings and sheds for any signs that someone may have been using these for shelter.”
Mr Mitchell is from the Culduthel area of Inverness and has had not contact with his family or friends since last Wednesday when he was in the Baron Taylor Street area.
The missing teenager is described as being about 5ft 11in tall and of heavy buildwith long brown hair and a beard.
When he was last seen he was wearing a black leather jacket, a denim vest, black jeans and boots.
Police have had a report of a man of similar appearance in the company of a woman in the Reasurie Gardens area. She was described as being in her late teens with multi-coloured hair.
