12/08/2014

Police Appeal Over Missing Brothers In Sunderland

Police in Sunderland have appealed for help in tracing three brothers who have gone missing from their foster home.

The three brothers – Remus, 15, Janko, 12, and David, 10 – failed to return their their foster home as expected on Monday evening.

The three, who use their foster parents surname of Matloch, are Polish but speak good English, police have said.

They are known to have family in Blyth and South Shields.

Police say that the brothers set off on a bike ride from The Oaks to Mowbray Park at 17:20 and had been due to return at 20:00.

It is understood that the brothers have not gone missing before.

Officers are appealing for the brothers to contact them and for anyone who recognises them or knows where they are to call the police.

(MH/CD)

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