THE heartbroken mother of a missing Merseyside man will today make a public appeal for his safe return.
Ellen Crofts, 60, will ask the public not to abandon hope for her 21-year-old son Robbie who, it is feared, may have drowned off the New Brighton coast.
The body of his girlfriend Hayley Holmes, 17, washed ashore on Monday morning.
Mrs Crofts, a care worker, believes the father-of-one is still alive.
She said: “I want to tell him he needs to come home. Eva wants her daddy back. We all miss him so much.”
Merseyside Police continued their hunt for Mr Crofts yesterday.
Specialist divers and the police helicopter scoured the Mersey basin amid fears he was swept away by the current.
Upton Hall School – where Miss Holmes was due to begin her final year of A-levels next week – confirmed it had organised ways in which her devastated teachers and schoolfriends could pay their respects.
Pupils will be able to sign a special book of remembrance.
