The distraught mum of a man who went missing from hospital has issued a desperate appeal for him to come home a month on from his disappearance.
Barry McCullagh from Castlemilk went missing from Paisley's Royal Alexandra Hospital on October 5 where he was taken after suffering a seizure and hallucinations. The 40-year-old dad-of-two was allowed out of the building at 5.20pm to have a cigarette but was captured on CCTV moments later walking on Corsebar Road away from the hospital.
Specialist officers searched the water of Durrockstock Park close to hospital grounds last week but found no sign of Barry. Tragically, the search occurred at the same time Barry’s brother Brian McCullagh was laid to rest.
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Barry's desperate family have been appealing for any information on his whereabouts in the weeks since as well as holding mass searches from the area he was last seen.
Taking to social media a month on from his disappearance, Barry's mum Liz said: "Our Son Barry McCullagh has now been missing since the 5th October from outside the Royal Alexander Hospital in paisley where he was a patient and was getting treated for mental health issues.
"He went out for a smoke around 5.25pm on that day unsupervised and didn’t return so if anyone has seen him or befriended him or knows his whereabouts please contact the Paisley police station or any of our family on Facebook of his whereabouts and we will come and get him.
"Today is bonfire night which Barry loved so please please keep your eyes open for him.
"To all taxi drivers - he will be dirty looking, unshaven and his hair will be needing a haircut and his clothes will be smelly. Please let him in your taxi if approached and we will pay this end no problem.
"He had no money, no phone, and no jacket at the time of his disappearance.
"Please help bring our son home to his family and his two sons Barry and Josh."
His sister Stacey McCullagh previously told the Paisley Daily Express that Barry wasn't in a good state of his mind the night before he went missing. She said: “He wasn’t the normal Barry, he was hallucinating.
“He has been taking seizures for the past year-and-a-half and he took a seizure on Saturday and he hadn’t been right since so we phoned the ambulance on Tuesday. He went with them to hospital and that was the last time we saw him.”
She added: “We just can’t get over the fact that he is out there somewhere on his own. We just don’t know what has happened. He has nothing on him, no money and no phone or anything.
“He could have wandered somewhere and fallen, we just don’t know.”
Barry is described as 5'9 in height with short black hair. On the day of his disappearance, he was wearing a black softshell jacket, black and navy jogging bottoms and white and grey trainers.
Anyone with any information on Barry’s whereabouts is asked to contact 101 quoting reference 3910 of 5 October, 2022.
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