A mother has spoken of how the ‘seconds feel like hours’ as the search for her missing teenage son enters its eleventh day.

Callum, 14, was declared missing after vanishing in the night without a coat, a phone, or any money on November 29.

His mother Gemmalea told Metro: ‘It’s been a living nightmare. I don’t know if someone is holding him. I don’t know where he is. I can’t sleep, I can’t eat.’

She has been trawling the wetlands, woodlands, fields, and neighbourhoods surrounding Crawley in Sussex where he was last seen.

She has put up posters, posted on social media, and even left rescue bags full of blankets, chocolates and his favourite soft drink – Lucozade – in the distant hope he comes across them. ‘There were 40 people looking for him yesterday, I didn’t organise anything. It’s b

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