Eight months ago, Ali Durrani, grabbed his phone and cap, told his mum Mahjabeen that he was going out to clear his head and left his home in south-west Birmingham.

It was normal behaviour for the economics graduate; Ali loved walking and would go out most days, so when he left at lunchtime, Mahjabeen thought nothing of it. When he hadn’t returned hours later, she started calling round his friends, and after it got dark, contacted the police.

Ali still hasn’t returned to his Stirchley address to this day and his family are desperate for answers.

‘He is a family person, we don’t know where he is, this is very out of character there was no reason for us to think he was not coming back,’ said his father Khadim, 63.

Meanwhile a new appeal from the charity Missing People included a post tha

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