Police launch urgent search after young boy in pyjamas spotted after midnight

An urgent search is underway to find a young boy spotted wandering the streets in pyjamas shortly after midnight.
By Daniel Sheridan
Published 13th Nov 2020, 07:16 BST
Updated 13th Nov 2020, 07:22 BST
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Officers in Grimsby have been conducting extensive enquiries into a concern for safety, following a call from a member of the public reporting a child, who appeared to be alone, wandering around Harvey Walk, New Waltham at 12.15am this morning, Friday November 13.

The child is thought to be a boy, no older than eight-years-old, wearing dark coloured pyjamas and slippers, Humberside Police said.

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Detective Inspector Tom Kelly said: “I want to reassure the public that we have teams on the ground in the Harvey Walk and surrounding areas conducting a number of enquiries to try and locate this child.

“Currently we have the CCTV image below which shows the child we are looking for. I appreciate the quality of this is low so we would ask locals to check their CCTV footage and contact us if they see anything similar. This image is from 12.04am on Thompson Drive, Grimsby.“Currently we have the CCTV image below which shows the child we are looking for. I appreciate the quality of this is low so we would ask locals to check their CCTV footage and contact us if they see anything similar. This image is from 12.04am on Thompson Drive, Grimsby.
“Currently we have the CCTV image below which shows the child we are looking for. I appreciate the quality of this is low so we would ask locals to check their CCTV footage and contact us if they see anything similar. This image is from 12.04am on Thompson Drive, Grimsby.

“We have been making CCTV enquiries, going house to house and searching lots of areas in the vicinity, as understandably we are concerned for the safety of the child.

“The child was last seen on Harvey Walk, but is believed to have headed towards Peterson Drive and then turned left around midnight this morning.

“Currently we have the CCTV image below which shows the child we are looking for. I appreciate the quality of this is low so we would ask locals to check their CCTV footage and contact us if they see anything similar.

"This image is from 12.04am on Thompson Drive, Grimsby.

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“I would ask the public not to speculate about the circumstances, but to contact us on 101 quoting log 16 of 13 November with urgency should they have any information that could lead us to the whereabouts of the child.”