Detectives seek six people seen in Jill Meagher CCTV footage

Detectives in Australia have appealed to six people to come forward as they continue the search for Jill Meagher.

The 29-year-old disappeared while on her way home from a night out in Melbourne in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Newly-released CCTV footage from a shop in the area shows Jill walking on the street, as well as six other people.

One man, wearing a blue hoodie, appears to speak to the Drogheda native in the clip, and police are urging him to come forward.

Robert French, a reporter with ABC news in Melbourne, said that police are combing the footage for any clues.

"It shows her using her phone as well," he said. "That's a key part in this investigation, because they still haven't found her phone, and this footage was taken just before she made a call to her brother so … it must have been after she made that call to her brother that she disappeared."