The family of missing Loughborough University student Aryan Sharma are urgently appealing for the public’s help to find him.
Aryan, 20, was last seen leaving his home in Loughborough at 9.20pm on Friday, 21 November. CCTV later captured him walking around the area in the early hours of Saturday. At approximately 12.30am, he was seen on CCTV on Meadow Lane, near the Brush site, heading towards Stanford on Soar, just outside the town.
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Police are carrying out extensive searches across Loughborough and Stanford on Soar, supported by uniformed officers, detectives, the force drone team, the National Police Air Service (NPAS), Leicestershire Police search-trained officers, and Leicestershire Search and Rescue. Specialist divers have also searched the River Soar between Meadow Lane and Cotes.
Speaking on behalf of the family, Aryan’s cousin Jagi Sawhney said: “We are devastated as a family. We just want to find him safe. He’s loved by this family — an older brother, a cousin, one of the five boys of our family.
Our biggest worry is that no one has spoken to him since Friday, and with the cold weather, we’re extremely concerned. We just want him to be okay and to come home to his mum.
Please help us find him. Any information, no matter how small, could help.
And if Aryan sees this, we want him to know how loved he is. We just want him home.”
Aryan is described as Asian, 5ft 5ins, slim, with collar-length black hair. He was last seen wearing a black calf-length leather-style trench coat, shorts, and black trainers with white trim.
Detective Inspector Jonathan Dickens, who is leading the investigation, urged anyone who may have seen Aryan to get in touch: “Please check your personal or work CCTV or vehicle dashcams — especially for sightings around Meadow Lane, Stanford on Soar, Cotes, Barrow upon Soar and Prestwold between 12.15am on Saturday 22 November onward.
Any piece of information could help locate Aryan.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact Leicestershire Police on 101, quoting incident 208 of 23 November.
