Police are searching for a missing university student whose disappearance five days ago after a night out with friends has been described as “very out of character”.
Fears are growing for Megan Roberts who was reported missing by her mother on Monday morning after concerned friends raised the alarm.
The 20-year-old student at York St John University, who is originally from Wetherby, West Yorks, vanished on a night out in York city centre last week.
She was last seen at about 2am on Thursday in Popworld bar on George Hudson Street about a mile from the home of university chef Claudia Lawrence whose disappearance almost five years ago remains a mystery.
After leaving the bar the group “went their separate ways” and Miss Roberts never returned home.
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27 Jan 2014There has been no sign of activity on the usually “prolific” Facebook user’s profile since last Wednesday night.
A North Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said: “Nobody has heard from Megan since, which is very out of character and officers are very concerned for her safety.
"Police are appealing for anyone who has seen Megan since the early hours of Thursday morning or knows where she is now, to contact them urgently.
"They are also appealing to Megan herself to contact her friends, family or the police to let them know she is safe."
Friends tried phoning and texting the art history student but after receiving no reply alerted her mother Jackie Roberts.
Ms Roberts wrote on Facebook: “Anyone with any info please get in touch. We’re worried sick.”
Miss Roberts’ friend Rockie Alanah Thorley wrote on Facebook yesterday: “Her phone has been off since Wednesday night. We all assumed she went home for the weekend or went to see her ex and her phone had died.
“When all her friends spoke last night and realised nobody had got in touch we became concerned as it is very out of character for her. So we contacted her mum.
“She then didn’t turn up to her lecture this morning and we reported it. It’s been discovered that it is likely she didn’t go to her own house on Wednesday night.”
Others discussed her disappearance on Twitter.
One wrote: “I didn’t leave with her but she was with people when I left. I just don’t understand.”
Inspector Andy Farrar of North Yorkshire Police said officers were trying to trace Megan using CCTV footage.
He said: “At the moment it is purely a missing from home enquiry, there is nothing to suggest anything else. We are in the early stages of the investigation.
“We are searching the local area in relation to the places where she lives and who she was out with. We are doing the preliminary investigation and speaking to the last people she saw.”
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