Father slams police hunt for missing teenage son

Russell Bohling, 18, who is considered vulnerable because of a speech and language disorder, was last seen when he left home in West Ella, near Hull, for Bishop Burton College, near Beverley, at 8am on Tuesday March 2.

It is not clear whether he got there as his car was found 45 miles away, at Bempton Cliffs nature reserve, near Bridlington.

Russell was about to receive 300,000 from his parents, who believe he may have been murdered by someone trying to steal his windfall.

Humberside Police are now interviewing more than 3,000 College students and staff, which Russell's father Roger believes should have been done sooner.

He said: "I'm absolutely staggered that they are doing it now when one of the most important things was to establish whether he arrived at the College and whether he was seen speaking to anyone in the car park.

"I find it hard to remember things the police ask me about what Russell was doing then and I think it would have been more productive at the time."

Mr Bohling said he found it difficult to understand why the case was still a missing persons inquiry.

"If I look out of my window and my car's not there I phone the police and that's a crime I'm reporting. Yet my son disappears and he's missing for three months and it's not a crime. I don't get it."

Mr Bohling said he hoped the police would give the family full access to a review recently completed by North Yorkshire Police Superintendent Javad Ali.

"We are looking for reassurance that the right things were done at the right time. Unless we see the full report it's very difficult for us to have an informed and intelligent discussion about the investigation," he said.

Senior investigating officer Det Insp Colin Waddington said: "The report is between the detective superintendent and (Humberside) assistant chief constable Mr (Stuart) Donald. It's quite right that some of the report will be given to the family.

"I don't know what the report says; it's between high-ranking officers. If there are lessons to be learned we will learn them."

Of the timing of the College interviews, Mr Waddington said: "It wasn't possible at the beginning of the inquiry as there were so many other live inquiries that competed for demands, but I have reached a stage where it was only right and proper the students, friends and staff were spoken to."