5 Oct 2015

Police review search for missing man in Canterbury

1:44 pm on 5 October 2015

Police in Canterbury are reviewing the search for a 74-year-old man who has been missing for 10 days.

No trace has been found of Raymond Finnie, whose abandoned car was found stuck on a remote dirt road near Hororata last Wednesday.

He had not been heard from since the previous Friday.

Raymond Finnie

Raymond Finnie Photo: NZ Police

Search co-ordinator Phil Simmonds said an extensive ground and air search involving 1100 man-hours had covered a 4 km radius centred on where the car was found.

He said the search data is being reviewed, to determine what to do next.