John Hardy's family 'ripped to pieces' as man vanishes in Benidorm Christmas mystery
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The grieving brother of missing father-of-two John Hardy, also known as John George, has vowed that his family won't rest until his body is found and brought back home. John was reported missing on December 18 after failing to catch his flight home for Christmas with his children, having travelled to Spain three weeks earlier to visit friends.
His family became increasingly worried when his phone went dead on December 14. Following a concerning final phone call in which John sounded "distressed", his loved ones have launched a desperate search in the Spanish resort, scouring the area daily in a bid to recover his body.
Speaking to Belfast Live from Alicante on Saturday, John's younger brother Darren expressed the family's anguish, saying they are "ripped to pieces". Despite being in a state of limbo, the family has been bolstered by the support of around 40 people from Belfast, to Northern Ireland, where John is from, who have joined the search, with more arriving each day.
He said: "We very much stuck in limbo but a lot of people have come from Belfast to help us look for John and there's more coming every day. The support from Belfast has been unbelievable and there's about 40 of us now involved in the search.". Darren voiced concerns that vital evidence may be being missed by Spanish police, who are treating John's disappearance as a missing person case. It was hell over the festive period for one Brit family frantically searching the expansive Spanish countryside for their missing loved one, John.
