POLICE believe missing teenager Kyle Coleman was wearing light coloured shorts, not red shorts that has been reported.
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Mount Isa police Inspector Trevor Kidd said he could also confirm Kyle was wearing a stud earring in both ears.
He said aircraft would be deployed today for aerial searches and again called for members of the public to come forward if they had any information about Kyle’s disappearance.
Kyle, 17, is believed to have attended a party in the early hours of Saturday morning in the Soldiers Hill area and was last seen at a Skewes Street home at about 6am.
It is believed he left on foot with the intention of walking to his home about three kilometres away in Parkside, but he never arrived.
Kyle may have been carrying a green swag and backpack and was last seen wearing a black T-shirt with a white motif, white flat cap (Obey brand), light coloured shorts and skate shoes.
He is described as Caucasian with a very tanned complexion, sandy coloured short hair, hazel eyes, slim build and is approximately 173 centimetres tall.
Extensive investigations by Mount Isa police, including land searches by police and SES personnel, have so far failed to locate Kyle.
Meanwhile, the Please help find Kyle Coleman Facebook page had almost 9000 likes yesterday and people were commenting that they had shared information about his disappearance on the Australian Missing Persons Register Facebook page.
But New South Wales MP Stephen Jones raised concerns in Parliament on Wednesday that there was no national database for missing persons.
“In May 2003 Mr Ian Stanton, the son of a constituent of mine, went missing. More than 10 years later his whereabouts is still unknown. I was recently contacted by Mr Stanton’s father, Norman, who is concerned with the lack of a national database for missing persons in Australia. Currently it is the role of police services in each state and territory to investigate reported cases in the jurisdiction.
They each co-ordinate their own missing persons system with no link between. So once a missing person crosses state lines, they drop off the radar and the database on which they were first recognised and it becomes increasingly difficult for authorities to investigate.”
Anyone with information can contact Crime Stoppers anonymously on 1800 333 000 or at crimestoppers.com.au 24 hours a day.