The fiancée of a man who's been missing for a fortnight has said she's "desperately clinging to the hope he's still alive." Mum-of-three Liz Brown added that she and her family were currently "living in a nightmare and can only wake up when he finally walks through the front door."
Dad-of-five Jai Holroyd, 40, from Pembrokeshire was last seen on Monday, March 20, and an extensive land and sea hunt utilising specialist search teams, sonar, drones and marine and dog units has so far failed to find him. Described as being 5ft 8ins, slim, bearded and bald, shop CCTV footage of the local handyman taken on the day he went missing show him to have been wearing a dark woolly hat, a Superdry hoodie and work trousers with black pockets.
Jai was also said to be driving a Silver Honda Civic with registration RF07 0EW when he disappeared. That vehicle also remains missing.
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"He'd come home from work the night before (Sunday, March 29) and we'd sat around the kitchen table catching up on the day, just like we always do," said Liz, 38 , from Pennar in Pembroke Dock. "But I could feel stuff was getting to him, stuff that he'd been churning over for a while.
"Just after 11pm he ended up going for a drive to clear his head. He'd done that sort of thing before and seemed perfectly calm - otherwise I'd have never let him go." Liz added that when she woke up the next day she discovered Jai hadn't returned. However, she said she'd simply assumed he'd "stayed with a friend, had a drink and got things out of his system".
"I later noticed there were several missed calls from him on my phone which had been made in the early hours, one telling me he loved me and always will. I then reported him missing to the police."
She described Jai as 'a hard working man with a big heart who'd do anything for anyone'. "He's a kind, sensitive soul - I remember once he was driving his work van and accidentally ran over a kiddie's push bike which had been left in the road. He ended up insisting he buy the little boy a new one to make up for it, that's the type of bloke he was." Liz added that, more than anything, she just wanted her partner to come home.
"I'm desperately clinging to the hope he's still alive." she said. "And, until he finally appears at that front door, we'll all just keep living in a nightmare. I love him to bits and want to believe more than anything he's okay and out there somewhere. But I know in my soul he'd never leave us all wondering, not for this long.
"I just want him to walk in right now so I can throw my arms around him." Late last week Dyfed-Powys Police announced that it had scaled back its search for Jai. "However, we will act on any new information and officers are continuing with missing person enquiries," said a force spokesperson. If you have any information that could help in the search click here or call 101 quoting reference: DP-20230320-296.
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