The desperate family of Barry McCullagh say they experiencing a “living nightmare” after marking 60 days since his disappearance on Sunday.
The 41-year-old went missing from the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley on October 5 after failing to return to a ward after having a smoke.
He was later captured on CCTV walking along Lounsdale Road outside the Lord Lounsdale Pub around 5.33pm.
But the father-of-two has not been since with one reported sighting near the hospital ruled out by police.
“It’s been a living nightmare not knowing where he is,” his sister Stacey told the Paisley Daily Express. “The police haven’t had any reported sightings in all this time. It’s as if he has just vanished.
“We just don’t understand it, though, how can someone just vanish when we have all the CCTV and everything else in this day and age.”
Barry had been admitted to the RAH on October 4. He had suffered a seizure and began hallucinating when his concerned family called an ambulance.
He was taken from his home in Castlemilk, Glasgow to the RAH and went missing the following day, having told nurses he was going out for a smoke.
In the following month, his family and friends launched mass searches for Barry around the hospital grounds, on the nearby cycle path and in woodland; and have plastered posters on every corner of the town.
In all the time that has passed, the family has only been contacted by one woman who said she may have seen Barry at the RAH. But when police arrived, they confirmed it wasn’t him.
The now 61 days in which Barry has been missing have been even more unbearable for the McCullagh family death of Barry’s brother.
Brian passed away on October 18 having been in a coma for several months at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.
Two weeks ago, his sister April gave birth to a baby boy.
An incredibly close family, Stacey and her mum Liz say Barry would definitely be at home with his loved ones if he was in his right mind.
In a moving appeal posted on social media, Liz begged her son to come home.
“He is not in any trouble, he is just sick and not himself or he would be home,” she said.
“He’s in a strange place and doesn’t know the area. We just want him home safe with his family.
“We need you home son, if you’re out there please, please come home. Your family loves you and misses you; if you’re out there come home.”
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