Wife's plea to missing doctor

Dr Stevens' bank account has not been used

The wife of missing doctor Richard Stevens has made a fresh plea for him to come home.

Richard Stevens, 54, of Sale, Greater Manchester, has not been seen since he disappeared from the hospital where he works just over a week ago.

Eirwen Stevens said on Tuesday that she is "desperate" to know where her husband is.

Mrs Stevens made the appeal on their grandson's Ben's first birthday.

Dr Stevens was seen on CCTV arriving for work at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital on Monday 21 July.

Mrs Stevens said: "We are desperate to know where Richard is but more than anything we just want to know that he is safe and well.

We are living every day in limbo waiting for news Eirwen Stevens

"He was really looking forward to Benjamin's birthday and it is just not the same without him here.

"I want him to know how much I love him and how much we all miss him. I don't care what has caused him to leave or where he has been for the past two weeks I just want him back.

"We are living every day in limbo waiting for news and our normal life won't resume until he's back with us or at least until we know he's OK.

"If he's reading this I just want him to please, please get in touch with us, or the police."

Sighting discounted

A reported sighting by a railway worker on a train from Manchester to London the day after he went missing has been discounted by police.

Superintendent Frank Doyle, of Greater Manchester Police, said: "We have also been monitoring his bank accounts since the day he left but so far there has been no activity in them.

"In addition to this we have been trying to contact him through his mobile phone and pager but his phone is turned off and he is not responding to his pager."

Anyone with information about Dr Stevens' whereabouts can contact police at Salford.