One week on the outcome looks increasingly grim as the frantic search for two sisters who vanished in to thin air fails to yield any results. Detectives and the entire city of Aberdeen are completely baffled by the disappearance of Eliza and Henrietta Huszti who were captured on grainy CCTV having a 2am walk in the heart of the city on Tuesday 7 January.
They were wearing jackets and scarves in sub-zero conditions. The pair, originally from Hungary, crossed a bridge and took a sharp turn down a dark path that trails along the River Dee. It is overgrown with bushes and would have been caked in ice, making walking in the pitch black treacherous.
It makes this disappearance all the more baffling. Detectives told Sky News there are "no suspects" as this is firmly a missing persons probe rather than a criminal inquiry. A senior officer revealed the pair had recently told their landlord they were quitting their rental tenancy. It was she who raised the alarm when her clients were nowhere to be seen.
One associate of the sisters told Sky News they were not ones for making "impulsive decisions". He described them as hard-working who keep themselves to themselves. Nor do they apparently consume drink or drugs. Inside the block of flats where the Husztis lived, neighbours were reluctant to shed any light on this strange story. One told me the police had alerted residents to the case but declined to expand further.
