My missing son Jack O’Sullivan would’ve been found if cops hadn’t made crucial mistake – CCTV proves he’s NOT in a river

THE mum of missing pupil Jack O'Sullivan says she's convinced cops are incorrect - and helium isn't successful the water.

Catherine O'Sullivan says she clings onto content the 23-year-old is live arsenic she "hasn't been shown immoderate evidence" to beryllium helium isn't - and feels constabulary person been focusing connected the incorrect areas.

Jack vanished without hint aft being past seen astatine 3.15am connected Saturday March 2 successful the country of Brunel Lock Road/Brunel Way, successful Bristol.

Catherine, 52, of Flax Bourton, Somerset, claimed constabulary had been "fixated" connected a mentation that Jack had fallen into the h2o connected the mode location from a party.

But she said determination has been nary grounds to suggest this - and divers person recovered an array of items including shot boots and a wedding ringing - but not a azygous hint of her son.

And she says she has present mislaid full assurance successful the constabulary and been forced to instrumentality matters into her ain hands - employing the services of a specializer canine team..

She said: "If helium had gone into the water, radical with acquisition person told america 'you should person recovered him by now.' Or recovered thing astatine slightest - immoderate grounds helium was successful the water. However determination has been nothing.

"You tin spot from the CCTV it is not imaginable helium fell into the floating harbour. The footage is rather good. Beyond wherever helium was seen determination is simply a fastener but the harbour maestro has told america if helium had fallen successful there, they would person recovered something.

"They don't person thing and constabulary divers person been successful connected galore occasions. They person recovered a wedding ring, glasses, shot boots truthful it feels similar they person worked done it successful bully item - but they've recovered thing that belongs to Jack.

"The constabulary look to person based each searching connected looking wherever his telephone was past used. It does not mean to accidental helium was with his phone.

"There is simply a immense proposition helium was not with his telephone - and they person got to look everywhere."

"We consciousness the constabulary person not enactment immoderate effort into thing that was not astir their h2o theory. We firmly judge immoderate accidental to hunt should person been done.

"Recently a bearer container was recovered floating successful the h2o truthful a squad was sent to cheque it out.

"Anything connected onshore seems to beryllium a batch harder and has to beryllium 'put for consideration.'"

Catherine said she spends each waking infinitesimal hunting for Jack and has travel up with her "most apt theory" of what has happened.

She added: "My theory, though I indispensable accent determination isn't immoderate steadfast grounds to substantiate, is that helium got into a car, knowing oregon unknowingly. A taxi, oregon possibly a car helium thought was a taxi, has taken him retired of the contiguous centre - and dropped him somewhere.

"It is truly hard for maine - this is the lone happening I do. Every infinitesimal of the time erstwhile I americium awake I americium looking for Jack, trying to marque consciousness of it each and support the momentum going.

"I americium not prepared to judge Jack is not present until idiosyncratic gives maine grounds of wherever helium is.

"I cognize that mightiness sounds brainsick but the facts are not here. Where is he?

"Until I get immoderate further accusation - for maine Jack is determination and I conscionable person to support looking."

In a wide-ranging interview, Catherine said they had mislaid spot successful the constabulary erstwhile they realised captious CCTV clues had been missed and not followed up.

She added: "At the precise commencement we had nary thought what we were dealing with oregon what to expect and were successful the police's hands. We would bent connected each connection they told america and listened to each spot of information.

"We had nary crushed to uncertainty oregon mistrust anything. It was lone arsenic we were progressing and kept asking questions - it started to dawn connected america this does not marque sense.

"I wanted to spot CCTV footage and was fixed immoderate to reappraisal myself astatine home. I recovered Jack walking on the apical of a span that had been wholly missed by the police.

"Everything changed from that constituent onwards. The constabulary seemed to adjacent ranks and connection changed.

"For america the information it was missed was a immense mistake and truthful detrimental. It was implicit 3 months and the hunt mislaid specified captious signs and opportunities to unafraid much CCTV.

"It was past I started to uncertainty what I had been told. I hoped it raising it would spot constabulary summation efforts but it had the other effect. Things moved to email correspondence lone and it truly felt similar they were closing ranks."

Catherine has since made a ceremonial ailment to the IPCC which remains ongoing.

She added: "We wanted assistance but that was not what we got erstwhile we needed it most."

Despite the occasional troll, including 1 idiosyncratic she has reported to constabulary for demanding money successful speech for information, Catherine said the enactment from the assemblage had been "overwhelming."

She added: "The enactment has been unbelievable -people are contacting maine personally and connected the Facebook radical daily.

"It is overwhelming however generous radical tin beryllium and that is truthful supportive. People person been offering to enactment unneurotic immense hunt teams.

"It is hard to get the equilibrium doing things safely - we are not trying to aggravate the police. But we besides truly request to bash our searches and bash thing we tin get the connection out.

"I felt truly powerfully we should dispersed the connection further than conscionable Bristol.

"We mislaid truthful overmuch clip and helium could easy beryllium further afield."

Catherine said the household had already utilized a specializer canine hunt squad they were waiting for much searches to beryllium done arsenic they retrace the spot wherever Jack was past seen to his household location six miles away. This included a hunt aft an 'area of interest' was discovered connected the A370.

She added: "We are successful the hands of the hunt squad erstwhile they tin travel next.

"We are besides inactive trying to prosecute telephone information truthful we tin spot ourselves. After the messiness with the CCTV we tin not permission thing to accidental and privation to marque definite everything is looked astatine properly.

"We are having to get a tribunal bid to get our hands connected it and it is taking a while.

"We volition conscionable support going and look into each imaginable sighting. We cognize constabulary aren't taking a batch of them earnestly truthful we person to travel up ourselves.

"If determination is thing important our archetypal larboard is to ringing the police, but we conscionable don't consciousness assured they would respond the mode we privation them to.

"I anticipation they are inactive taking it with the seriousness it deserves but we person doubts."

Avon and Somerset Police accidental that since Jack's disappearance, much than 20 antithetic teams and departments person been progressive successful the investigation.

A spokesperson said much than 100 hours of CCTV person been reviewed, 200 hours of searches connected the stream and the surrounding banks, mounted constabulary searches from Bristol metropolis centre to Flax Bourton, 40 onshore searches, and 16 drone deployments.

Assistant Chief Constable Joanne Hall, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: “Our unit and officers stay committed to doing everything we tin to find Jack and we bash not underestimate what a distressing clip this has been, and continues to be, for his family.

“Throughout our investigation, we’ve been open-minded astir what happened to Jack, considering antithetic imaginable outcomes and scenarios pursuing his past sighting.

“We person sought reviews from autarkic agencies specified arsenic the National Crime Agency (NCA) and experts specified arsenic oceanographers and autarkic Police Search Advisors.

“Sadly, contempt the efforts carried retired to date, we person been incapable to find Jack and we afloat admit the anguish this is having connected his household and our thoughts stay with them during this hugely hard time.”

The unit said a dedicated serviceman is successful regular interaction with the family but said "in investigations of this nature, determination tends to beryllium periods which are much dynamic and fast-paced and others which are longer-running."

A spokesperson added: "Where the probe has progressed and enactment becomes much prolonged, oregon determination are less updates to give, the connection travel volition not beryllium to the aforesaid extent. However, whenever determination are immoderate important updates, we volition ever marque nonstop interaction with them."

In effect to the rejection of the family's petition for telephone data, ACC Joanne Hall added: “We person taken clip to cautiously see the information petition to spot if determination was immoderate mode we could hold to it successful bid for Jack’s household to get the answers they merit pursuing his disappearance.

"However, connected this occasion, we are restricted by law and person been incapable to place a wide ineligible ground which would let for the disclosure to instrumentality place.”