The devastated mother of a missing 23-year-old college student has pleaded with anyone who may have found his phone to come forward.

Jack O’Sullivan’s mother Catherine said finding his phone would give police information on where he disappeared in Bristol more than a month ago.

Mr O’Sullivan was last seen at around 3.15am on Saturday, March 2, when he attended a birthday party with friends in the Brunel Lock Road area of ​​Bristol.

His mother said: “It doesn’t make any sense. My appeal is that if someone picks up a phone for whatever reason, or passes around a smashed phone or anything, that would let us know about the phone Where have you gone?”

Avon and Somerset Police said that at 3.24am he tried to call a friend who was still at the party, but when the friend called back ten minutes later, Mr O’Sullivan answered the phone but only before queuing Said “hello”. cut out.

Mrs O’Sullivan said the friend left the party soon after. “She tried many times to catch him but was unsuccessful. She sent him messages saying: ‘Please let me know where you are, please let me know you are okay’ and ‘Please let me know when you get home’.

His mother returns to the scene every day in the hope of finding more information about her son’s whereabouts.

She told BBC Breakfast: “We tried to retrace his steps because we had footage of him. At three o’clock in the morning we came to the area and walked the route we knew he had taken. We wanted to see the light on it How nice and really looking for answers.”

Professional divers from Avon and Somerset Police have been searching for Mr O’Sullivan in the River Avon and Cumberland Basin areas.

Police described Jack as white, about 5 feet 10 inches tall, with a slim build and short brown hair. He was wearing a green/brown quilted Barbour jacket, a beige wool sweater, navy chinos, and brown leather sneakers with white soles.

Speaking at Jack’s last confirmed location, senior investigating officer Jason Chidgey said: “This is an extremely difficult and distressing time for Jack’s family and friends as we continue to work hard to find him.

“It has been a month since Jack was last seen in the Cumberland Basin area and we continue to appeal to anyone who may have been driving along these roads and may have seen something, or have dash cam footage if they did not see it themselves Video guy.

“If you live in the area and have CCTV or a video doorbell, please check back on Saturday, March 2 to see if you notice anything or anyone matching Jack’s description.

“The smallest piece of information can have a huge impact on our investigations, so even if you don’t think it’s important, we encourage people to still contact us.

“We are keeping an open mind as to where Jack is but it would be very out of character for him and we have been working hard to trace his whereabouts that night.

“Detectives have carried out extensive CCTV trawls, door-to-door inquiries and we have deployed a specialist dive team to search the basin and the wider Avon – as Jack was last seen close to the Avon – — and have been looking for his phone and why it was still active after his last confirmed sighting.”

Anyone who spots Jack is asked to call 999 and provide reference number 5224055172 to call handlers.

If you have any information about his whereabouts, or have some footage that could assist the investigation, please call Avon and Somerset Police on 101 or get in touch on the website.