{"id":19688,"date":"2021-09-12T13:05:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T12:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=19688"},"modified":"2021-09-12T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T12:05:06","slug":"twin-brothers-emotional-plea-for-missing-model-derry-man-emmette-dillon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2021\/09\/twin-brothers-emotional-plea-for-missing-model-derry-man-emmette-dillon\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Brother\u2019s Emotional Plea For Missing Model Derry Man Emmette Dillon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The twin brother of missing Derry man Emmette Dillon has made an emotional plea for help in finding the 33-year-old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryan Dillon made a direct plea to his twin: \u201cEmmette we love you and we want to help.  Please come home so we can look after you and find a way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emmette was last seen just after midnight on September 3 leaving his apartment in Conar Court in Crawford Square in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is described as approximately six feet tall, slim, with dark hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing all dark clothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former Mr Supranational 2018\/19 model and former staff nurse, Emmette, is known to have mental health and addiction problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His family last spoke to him in a telephone conversation on September 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have no reason to believe he left the country and police also believe this is the case,\u201d said Ryan.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have no reason to believe that Emmette would hurt himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEmmette is a loving son, brother and uncle and only wants to help those around him. However, he does have serious mental health issues which can impact his behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryan appealed for any local businesses in the area to check their CCTV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe ask local businesses in the Crawford Square, Rosemount and Northland Road area could check their CCTV from the early hours of Friday 3rd September for any potential sightings of Emmette,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dWe ask the public to remain vigilant and report any sightings no matter how small. We also ask everyone to share this message with those who aren\u2019t on social media.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emmette, who was crowned Mr Derry in 2016, was a cancer awareness campaigner following the death of his mother and is described by family and friends as being very popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPolice have carried out door to door checks and acted on any potential sightings reported however the information we have is so limited,\u201d said Ryan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe believe Emmette’s phone has been switched off, so they are unable to use this as a method of tracing him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Derry City and Strabane police said: \u201cWe would ask that if anyone has any information that might assist in locating Emmette, they should contact 101 quoting reference number 1847 07\/09\/21.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The twin brother of missing Derry man Emmette Dillon has made an emotional plea for help in finding the 33-year-old. Ryan Dillon made a direct plea to his twin: \u201cEmmette we love you and we want to help.  Please come home so we can look after you and find a way forward.\u201d Emmette was last … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19691,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19688\/revisions\/19691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}