{"id":19027,"date":"2022-11-09T03:01:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T03:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=19027"},"modified":"2022-11-09T03:01:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T03:01:39","slug":"appeal-to-locate-elderly-man-missing-from-lake-macquarie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/appeal-to-locate-elderly-man-missing-from-lake-macquarie\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to locate elderly man missing from Lake Macquarie\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police are appealing for public assistance to locate an elderly man missing from the Lake Macquarie area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Davidson, aged 72, was last seen at a home on Tennent Road, Mount Hutton, about 9am yesterday (Tuesday 8 November 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When he could not be located, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into his whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police and family hold serious concerns for his welfare as he lives with dementia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 175cm tall, with medium build and grey hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He may have been wearing jeans and white joggers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John is known to go on regular walks in the Mount Hutton, Charlestown and Gateshead areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone with information into his whereabouts is urged to contact Lake Macquarie police, or Crime Stoppers on&nbsp;1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate an elderly man missing from the Lake Macquarie area. John Davidson, aged 72, was last seen at a home on Tennent Road, Mount Hutton, about 9am yesterday (Tuesday 8 November 2022). When he could not be located, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were notified and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/appeal-to-locate-elderly-man-missing-from-lake-macquarie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appeal to locate elderly man missing from Lake Macquarie\u00a0&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19028,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027\/revisions\/19028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}