Agony of missing man’s family as search efforts prove fruitless

ALMOST two months after he disappeared, the family of Derek Browne are still going through a “living hell”.

There have been hundreds of reported sightings of the 28-year-old machine operator from Mullingar, Co Westmeath, but none have yielded anything, nor have searches of canals, fields and woods.

“I couldn’t describe how bad it is and how low you feel,” said his father, Dermot Browne.