Search for missing Jordan Cobb to enter fourth day
After yet another day of searching for Jordan Cobb, who was last seen jumping from Torpoint Ferry on New Year's Eve, there appears to be no sign of the missing boy.
From 10am, three RNLI Lifeboats and two MoD launches undertook searches in the area north of the Breakwater in Plymouth Sound. The coordinated search involved some 50 members of staff from the Coastguard and Devon & Cornwall and Ministry of Defence (MoD) Police and included both sides of the river and the dockyard taking advice from the force Lost Person Search Manager (LPSM).
They searched from Mount Edgcumbe to Jennycliff and up to the Hoe seafront. They continued up the River Tamar covering Millbrook, St John’s and up to the Tamar Bridge.
From 11am ten police search team officers and 10 Coastguard volunteers from Looe, Tamar and Plymouth sections were deployed to conduct a search along the shoreline in the folllowing locations:
• From the Royal Citadel along the Hoe seafront to Millbay Docks, Mayflower Marina and to Mount Wise (The dockyard was being searched by the MOD Police);
• From Barn Pool at Mount Edgcumbe around the coast to Cremyll and Millbrook;
• From Millbrook around to Inswork Point and up to St John’s;
• From St John’s to HMS Raleigh and around to the Torpoint Ferry;
• From the Torpoint Ferry to Yonderberry Point, Looking Glass Point and up to Jupiter Point.
At 4.20pm an RNAS Culdrose helicopter joined in the search and was able to search the mudflats at Millbrook and St John’s whilst it was low tide. At 4.45pm, on completion of the helicopter search, all units were stood down for the evening due to low light. Police and Coastguard will resume the search in tomorrow (4th Jan). Police divers are expected to search the river bed around the ferry in the morning, if the conditions are favourable. Police are continuing to ask the public to keep away from the shoreline - people have been onto the beach and out in boats. A spokesperson said: "Although we understand their willingness to help, it is not a safe environment and could hamper the coordinated search that is taking place."
